How do you design digital badges that motivate and reward learners?

Some popular digital badging methods include: - Stackable badges (Individual badges that can be combined to show progression and result in a new cumulative badge) - Micro-credendials (Individual badges that can be standalone achievements or combined similar to stackable badging) - Achievement-based (Awarded immediately after a specific action or goal is completed)

Here at the Students’ Union we use badges to increase engagement across our activities and post- COVID the popularity has increased year on year. Our program was created to help students identify skills achieved in extra curricular activities like sports, societies, reps and volunteering. Badges are an innovative way for students to reflect on the journey they have been on so far, to articulate skills achieved and to stack them together to identify gaps to further bolster their skill acquisition. The route to a successful badge program is to keep it simple and ensure the badge will be meaningful to the badge recipient.

Hello, thank you for all of this information. Can you let me know what the ideal dimensions are for a digital badge? Need it for our designer :) Tks!

-Some popular digital badging methods include: - Stackable badges (Individual badges that can be combined to show progression and result in a new cumulative badge) - Micro-credendials (Individual badges that can be standalone achievements or combined similar to

One of the things I've found helpful in designing my badges is consistency within classes, challenges, and badges. Example: if my course is called "Excel with Excel," that is also the name of the challenge participants see on the badge. I will also use Canva to design a cover image for the course and a matching header image for the challenge they must meet to earn their badge. Of course, the badge is smaller yet graphically similar to the other two designs. If a year is necessary, it will be integrated (for annual badging challenges). Suppose there are multiple levels to these courses. In that case, I label each component with a number/letter and then alter the color scheme or a design element to help differentiate the levels in the series.

Simplicity and consistency are your best friends when it comes to creating appealing digital badges. Try to limit your use of colors, and be selective about the ones you do use. Do your best to incorporate an existing logo and highlight those colors. If you are creating an original badge without an existing brand or logo, try referencing a color wheel to find what colors may work best together.

This is the most vital part of any digital badge; without this there is no value (besides a pretty looking graphic). Badge metadata allows an earner to relay relevant information about the badge, such as skills acquired, in a quick and accredible fashion. This all adds meaning to a digital badge, and more incentive for potential earners.

Digital badges are a great add-on for things like an email signature, a digital resume, or even a LinkedIn banner... Don't be afraid to get creative with showing off your achievements!

Combining questions (like the above) with a likert scale is one of the most effective ways to acquire feedback with a greater degree of depth. In addition, the feedback gathered is in the form of data which can then be later visualized to help truly analzye the information.

Here's an example of a digital badge I made earlier this year: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ecrmhGYUJswF2pRSIpct3xucDh4YK0jc/view?usp=drivesdk The design makes it simple to understand for a general viewer without the need any metadata. This was made with Accredible's Open Badge Designer: https://badge.design