Event Details

Remote

November 5, 2024

10:00 am–4:00 pm EST (Expired)

The IACET Open Digital Badge Workshop gives you everything you need to turn plans into action right, designed with strategic templates crafted for your immediate use!

You’ll learn to manage badges in a way that aligns with the ANSI-IACET Standard and our own Open Digital Badging Guidelines, so you can engage your stakeholders, showcase learner achievement, and coordinate your badge strategy across teams!

Initially launched in 2017, the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) created the Open Digital Badge Course to provide step-by-step guidance on creating open digital credentials, covering badge design, metadata management, and organizational adoption topics. This foundational eLearning ensures that you and your fellow learners can attend synchronous content with a shared understanding of critical concepts.

Cohort Schedule

• Upon Registration | eLearning Module 1 – Explore the foundations of open digital badges, the badging ecosystem, and IACET’s Badging Taxonomy!

• November 5 | Week 1 Live Facilitation; 11:00 AM ET – 1:00 PM ET – Join Meghan Conan for an interactive group discussion! This session focuses on collaboration and application, empowering you with new skills and innovative ways to use open digital credentials.

• November 6 | eLearning Module 2 – Keep the momentum alive in our second eLearning Module! Across two lessons, you’ll dig deeper into open digital badges, focusing on risk management, stakeholder surveying, and provider collaborations while crafting a long-term strategy.

• November 12 | Week 2 Live Facilitation; 11:00 AM ET – 1:00 PM ET – Join Meghan Conan for our final Live Lesson, pulling your strategy, template, and toolkits together as you explore risk mitigation, technological infrastructure, and effective ODB Program implementation.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, learners will be able to:

• Define a badging platform and recognize its purpose.
• Explain the need for unique evidence to support the purpose of the badge.
• Identify how to work with metadata to streamline some processes while producing evidence-rich credentials.
• Develop a prototype badge based on IACET’s ODB Taxonomy.
• Design an open digital badge strategy and advocacy plan for program development.

Course Materials

Included in the purchase and participation of this learning experience are the following materials:

• Student Workbook, featuring key ODB concepts and terminologies;
• Job Aids, including IACET’s Open Digital Badge Worksheet, ODB Taxonomy Chart, Questions to Ask your Provider, and more;
• Templates, including the ODB Strategy and Rollout Plan, and
• IACET’s Open Digital Badging Guidelines.