Welcome to IACET's Open Digital Badge Experience
The Open Digital Badge Experience (ODBX) course is designed to be the best single learning opportunity to fill the badging knowledge niche in an adult learning organization.
Filling the badging knowledge niche will provide organizations with new opportunities to promote their learning events, increase engagement and learner retention while also providing learners with a valuable portable credential they can be proud of. After this course, learners will have the knowledge they need to implement an effective ODB initiative in their organization fully.
IACET has put together several extra resources for you that we will mention in the course. You will find those resources below.
Primary Resources
Note: right click and download the file to your computer. Completing the form in a web browser may not save your work. ODBX Advanced Badge Evidence Submission Form
Use this form to submit your required evidence for achieving the Advanced ODBX Gold Badge.
LIVE EVENT EVALUATION FORM
Additional Resources
- API Documentation for Badgr, Acclaim, Badgelist
- Digital Promise Micro-credential Initiative | Micro-credential Search Engine
- IMS Global Learning Consortium
Note on ODBX sponsors and partners: While IACET does not endorse one badge provider over another, we value the work with our sponsors and partners. These organizations have distinguished themselves as leaders in the field.
Instructor Biographies
Dr. James E. Willis, III was introduced to open digital badges at Purdue University when he worked as an Educational Assessment Specialist in Information Technology. He later worked on a MacArthur Foundation grant as a Research Associate and Project Coordinator for Open Digital Badges in Higher Education in the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University. Since 2016, James has worked as an educational consultant with the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) where he wrote the Badging Standard, supplementary materials, and educational materials for the Open Digital Badges Experience. During his time at IACET, James also coordinated with the Information Technology Certification Council (ITCC) to produce a Badging Taxonomy. James has published on open digital badges in journals like the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy and EDUCAUSE Review, and in books like Foundations of Digital Badges and Microcredentials (Springer) and Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues, and Cases (Routledge). He has been an invited speaker on open digital badges for diverse audiences including the Council for Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, STEM Education in Virtual Words Workshop Series, the 2016 Digital Badge Summit, and the Open edX Technical Conference at MIT. He was also a co-leader for the 2nd International Workshop on Open Digital Badges in Education at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference. James holds a PhD from King’s College London.