Understand the role digital badges play in attracting and retaining learners and ultimately in increasing enrollments and student success users
- Give learners social proof, grow web traffic and collect market data handshake-alt
- Validate learner efforts and motivate them to pursue further credentials level-down-alt
- Minimize the effort your team invests in processing credentials
Digital badges act like online gold star stickers used to reward and motivate, and at the other end of the spectrum, they house rich learner and institutional data which can be used to identify skill sets or competencies.
Elisabeth Rees-JohnstoneExecutive Director of Continuing Education and Professional Learning at OISE, University of Toronto