{"id":928,"date":"2015-01-11T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T22:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=928"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:37:24","slug":"badges-and-certificates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/online-competency-development\/badges-and-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Badges and Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Badges are a mechanism that many organizations are exploring to recognize and support professional development. Digital Badges are being used in creative and innovative ways to recognize competency, reward effort, and incentivize behaviors. Digital badge credentials provide metadata that link back to evidence of contribution, achievement, skill development, performance, or behavior. Providing a more complete picture of an earner&#8217;s knowledge and skills, digital badges can make accomplishments more visible, can be shared, and like certificates and other credentials, are becoming a professionally valued currency. They can be shared on online profiles, professional portfolios, with prospective employers, professional groups, schools, collaborators, and other learners in online social community spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/badge-types-JUNE-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10059\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/badge-types-JUNE-2023-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SOT Badge Types\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/badge-types-JUNE-2023-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/badge-types-JUNE-2023.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/\">SUNY Online Teaching<\/a> has developed an <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelearningconsortium.org\/news_item\/online-learning-consortium-announces-2017-olc-fellows-recipients-2017-olc-awards-effective-practice-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">award-winning<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/2016\/06\/23\/badging2016\/?highlight=ecosystem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital badging ecosystem<\/a> that recognizes online community of practice membership, contributions, and the competency development of our online practitioners. This digital system of badges has enabled an effective, engaging, and visible way to recognize the development of online teaching and course design competencies, and support\/incentivize key behaviors in our community of practice. Four overarching paths are tied to the roles online practitioners play in our community, and form constellations of types of badges that add levels and a journey metaphor to the environment that help to clarify and integrate the goals of the badges within a true community of practice where members can move from novice to masters, share\/learn from each other, and demonstrate their commitment to continuous improvements in their online teaching and course design. <em>Listen to a podcasted overview of the OLC Effective Practice Award project, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listennotes.com\/podcasts\/the-ttk-podcast\/ep4-badges-EQLCU8NxPFd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using Digital Badges as a Framework to Support and Scale an Online Teaching and Learning Community<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/yHMuqYr0LPXola\" width=\"595\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Digital badging offers creative ways to define professional development paths, recognize accomplishments, experience, and competency, and encourage\/incentivize specific behaviors. Badge systems can be combined with additional incentives such as promotion\/tenure, institutional recognition, mentor opportunities, and further professional development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>We award badges.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-18-at-5.32.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11293\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-18-at-5.32.43-PM-300x172.png\" alt=\"info graphic\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-18-at-5.32.43-PM-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-18-at-5.32.43-PM-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screen-Shot-2025-06-18-at-5.32.43-PM.png 919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\">We used the original Credly platform to organize and deliver the digital credentials until September 2020, and have now migrated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credly.com\/organizations\/suny-online\/badges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Credly<\/a>\u00a0(by <a href=\"https:\/\/info.credly.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acclaim<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\">To date:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul class=\"ul2\">\n<li class=\"li2\">We have created 89 badges: in the professional development and community engagement categories.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\">We have issued 11,649 badges \u20134% in Twitter, 9% have shared their badges in FB, and 87% have shared their badges in LinkedIn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\">A group of campus-based volunteers have assisted by providing feedback on the design of the badging system: Chris Price \u2013 Brockport\/CPD, Kelsey O\u2019Brien \u2013 UA, Anne Reed \u2013 UP, Jeremiah Grobowski \u2013 UB, Jim Lynch \u2013 MVCC. Some input from Tera Doty-Blance \u2013 Broome and Linda Ryder &#8211;\u00a0 HVCC. Also includes various SUNY Online and CPD staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you are interested in badging, please join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/sunyonlineteachingcommunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SUNY Online Teaching online community<\/a> and network using #badging.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/groups.diigo.com\/user_mana\/link_roll_data?group_name=slnonline&amp;icon=false&amp;width=500&amp;count=20&amp;title=SUNY%20Online%20Teaching%20Community%20Resources&amp;tags=badges&amp;token=\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.diigo.com\/group\/slnonline\" >Open SUNY COTE Community Resources<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 553px; left: 418px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 547px; left: 418px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Badges are a mechanism that many organizations are exploring to recognize and support professional development. 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