Microcredentials and Digital Badging in Higher Education
  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Paid

Microcredentials and Digital Badging in Higher Education

Issued by EDUCAUSE

Badge earners understand digital credentials and the broader digital credential ecosystem; they can identify and isolate programs, courses, or other activities that could be meaningfully supported and acknowledged with digital credentials; can develope a credential governance plan and sketch out a credential hierarchy, constellation, or taxonomy for a project; they consider assessment strategies for credential earning; and they can explore designs for credentials and branding.

  • Type Learning
  • Level Foundational
  • Time Weeks
  • Cost Paid

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Badge earners completed the microcredential planning process through a meta-activity of identifying purpose, value, and stakeholders; they identified stakeholders and developed competencies or standards to embed in credentials for an actual project at their institution and designed one or more credentials; and they created and shared an outreach plan for earners, which included media, brochures, or websites.