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Digital Badges

What are NDC badges?

Open badges are verifiable credentials earned by participation in and completion of NDC sponsored activities. Badges are a visual representation of participant learning journeys, accomplishments, and mastery; and serve as documentation for engagement in online learning, webinars, events, and targeted activities. Badges are transferable from NDC to  personal and professional online profiles.

Learners will earn one badge per activity completed. Badges reflect participation, knowledge, skills and abilities gained from specific activities. Motivational badges may also be earned to show progression, achieving milestones, accumulating experience, and rewards for completing learning pathways. Learners may collect badges in a non-linear manner or select an established pathway.

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Open Badge Examples

A circle badge with blue outline and dots. A line drawing of a monitor with text 101 inside it.
Circular icon with light blue border, dark grey background, teal dotted and solid inner outlines, and white text in the center that reads "101" inside of a teal rounded rectangle with a short teal line beneath.

Sample Online Learning Badge - Deaf Awareness

A circle badge with green outline and dots. A line drawing of a person looking at a monitor.
Circular icon with light blue border, dark grey background, light green dotted and solid inner outlines, and a white and light green icon of a person in front of a computer with text lines and an interpreting icon.

Sample Online Learning Badge - Accessibility Practices

A circle badge with red outline and dots. A line drawing of an arrow.
Circular icon with light blue border, dark grey background, salmon-colored dotted and solid inner outlines, and a white and salmon-colored icon that looks like an arrow pointing to the right with branches coming off of it.

Sample Systems Knowledge Badge

The image is a green outlined badge with a outline of a laptop and the text "Coordinating Captioned Media" on the bottom.
The badge has a light blue border that follows the shape of a shell with a rounded rectangle centered at the bottom. The background is dark grey with a solid light green outline and a dotted light green outline within the shell shape. An icon at top is light green and white, showing several persons on a laptop screen. White text beneath reads: "Coordinating Captioned Media".

Sample Event Badge - Accessibility Practices

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