WGU's achievement wallet (digital credentials)

Badgr

Profile

Learner owned record

Portfolio

Skills

209 skills - all viewable

Details, proficiency (self-identified), sources (education, resume, portfolio)

Can remove/hide skills to remove them from calculation

Can showcase and re-order your top 10 skills

Wallet

Manage credentials

Can accept or dispute credentials

Learner has full control over accepting/adding credentials

Once accepted, it moves to the manage section with an active status

Institutions an remove credentials from learners, and it’s immediately visible to student.

Expiration dates can be visible - Can integrate with renewal options

Public/private badge - controls what’s searchable online/employer search apps

Self-asserted credential

can parse an uploaded document
enter credential details manually
import a link from credential provider
import via Canvas Badges
upload a JSON file

Canvas badges

houses credentials

Competency demonstration

Accreditation

Rich skill descriptors (skills architecture)

Library of skills

Can share/download easily

Occupations, alignments, standards, keywords, skill statement category

Career pathways

Up to 6 job roles

Visual indicator as to how they align to skills. Blue indicates deficiency, black indicates level of competency

Along pathway to a career, it indicates suggestion educational paths. If career path is computer engineer, there’s a suggestion for computer science degree and network engineering and security degree. Based on a variety of criteria.

job-to-job progression - relatable skills

Skills profile, job roles, education attainment levels, location, job growth, earnings (including median), companies looking to hire for a job role.

Student feedback

Students see that it helps to fill in the gaps. Show employers how degree aligns with current position.

Streamlined and output efficient. Validation to marketability.

Unified credential framework and digital credentials

Open data standards, repositories. Indiana achievement wallet - Ivy Tech working with Parchment for eDiploma.

Design narrative, understand your why

Problems

approach inconsistent
inconsistent badge design and data (unified design)
limited resources to issue and create digital credentials (how to scale)
ensuring market relevance - not creating just to create

UCF

UCF criteria needed to build a badge and why the criteria was selected. Master classes

Competency badge, certificate, certification, specialization, degree

Criteria

Course titles, competencies

Skills library

Lessons learned

Have the right collaborators involved; all voices considered
Intake system to ensure alignment to UCF, design req.
Call to action for students - help students learn how to use them (resume, social media, etc.)
Embracing challenging concentrations
Know your why

Capstones of excellence awards to add to wallet