How to Create Professional Digital Badges: A Complete Guide
Introduction to digital badges What are digital badges and why should you use them? Digital badges are more than just icons or badge images — they’re verifiable digital credentials that showcase an individual’s skills, learning progress, or professional achievements. In a world where lifelong learning and micro-certifications are booming, digital badges offer a flexible and …
Digital Badges: a guide to understanding, using and benefiting from them
The landscape of learning and professional development is rapidly changing, with digital badges becoming a key method for recognizing skills and achievements. This guide will explore digital badging, explaining what these credentials are, their uses, and benefits for learners, students, professionals, education bodies, and organizations. As verifiable skills become paramount, understanding digital badging is vital …
What are digital certificates? The complete guide to security & trust online
In an era in which our lives are intertwined with the digital world, security and trust are paramount. We constantly share sensitive data across the web, from emails to financial information. The fundamental mechanism securing these interactions is the digital certificate. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of what a digital certificate is, how it …
A Partnership for Accessible Innovation: BCdiploma and Access42
In the field of education and certification, digital accessibility is not only a legal requirement but also a key facilitator for inclusion and professional recognition. In this context, Access42, a leading digital accessibility consulting firm, partnered with BCdiploma, a company specialized in the secure and sustainable issuance of digital certificates. Audrey Maniez, co-manager of Access42, …
What are digital credentials? Examples and definitions
“What would an academic degree look like if it were designed today? Or a professional certificate? Or a certificate for an online course? As the question of trusted verification and authentication of learning and credentials arises with increased urgency, we need to redesign the way we issue, recognize and transact with academic credentials” – Digital …
Higher Education: What Strategies Can Increase Student Engagement and Strengthen the Alumni Community?
Student and alumni engagement is a key factor in the success of higher education institutions and their learners. Alumni platform services have tackled this issue, with varying degrees of success, due to the known challenge of maintaining an active community over the long term. But what about the learners? How can we improve their commitment …
Training Organizations: How to Increase Your Profits with Digital Badges & Certificates?
The ISTF Barometer 2024 confirms that receiving a badge or certificate at the end of training is the second most motivating factor for employees to start and complete a course. On professional social networks like LinkedIn, sharing digital training badges and certificates has become the norm, with a section to display and access them in …
Is blockchain compliant with the GDPR ?
Blockchain is THE technology of the future for data processing, storage and traceability. This solution is increasingly used by stakeholders in finance, the insurance sector, law, etc. But what about blockchain when processing personal data? Is it compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Is personal data stored in blockchain safe and protected, and what …
How to Save Up to 90% of Your Time and Costs – Including on Your Paper Processes – Thanks to Digital Certificates, Digital Diplomas and Credentials
Digital transformation is a major challenge for Higher Education institutions, whether for the optimization of academic and administrative processes or for improving services offered to students. Technological advancements provide institutions with new tools: micro-learning, immersive learning, phygital (physical and digital) campuses and paths. Among these innovations, digital diplomas or digital credentials represent a revolution, not …
Make Your Degrees and Credentials Your Reference Marketing Showcase: Online Visibility, Engagement, Referral
In the world of higher education, degrees now go beyond the traditional scope of mere paper diplomas or certificates to become genuine digital marketing tools. Institutions embracing this evolution offer their learners and alumni an unprecedented opportunity to value and share their achievements. Here’s why digital credentials represent an essential marketing lever for higher education …
How Can Digital Certificates, Credentials, Diplomas, and Badges Improve Your Learners’ Experience and Employability?
In the competitive world of higher education, educational innovation is constantly sought after to meet the new needs of learners and the job market. Digital certificates, credentials, diplomas, and badges, are emerging as a key solution. These new digital formats are not just formal recognitions of skills and knowledge acquired; they also play a significant …
How Verifiable Digital Certificates and Credentials Protect Both Your Degrees and Your Institutional Brand from Fraud
While one in four recruiters demands to see the original degrees, academic document fraud is on a disturbing rise, bringing with it a twofold risk: to the institutional brand of higher education establishments and to recruitment errors. According to a study by the Florian Mantione Institut, 75% of resumes turn out to be misleading, and …