E-Learning: recognition with Open Badges

Recognition with Open Badges is a self-paced course published on Canvas e-learning platform. It can be attended individually at any time, as there are not facilitators. The course is addressed to organisations interested in implementing badges in their training systems as a tool for assessment and recognition of learning results. The course is free of charge, it only requires an enrollment. Through its 6 modules, the attendees will learn what are Open Badges; how they are used, including best practices, successful cases, organisation and networks using and promoting Open Badges; how to design and create a single badge and a badge system; how to obtain endorsement of a badge system and much more concerning Digital Open Badges. The modules are composed by several sections each, containing videos, photos, presentations, pdf and word documents, links to articles and to other websites or platform connected to the world of Open Badges. The course itself will issue a digital open badge for each module completed by the attendees. This E-Learning is the result of the Erasmus KA2 project “Badge4Good”.