Title: About Course Digital Badges
Course: Technical Math for Industry > Section: Get Started

Colorado Community College System, in a public-private partnership with Credly Inc., has launched the CCCS’ digital badge platform. CCCS’s development of digital badges is aligned with the System’s 2015-2025 Strategic plan of developing competency-based programs. Badging is an innovative approach to competency-based education that has the potential to offer industry driven, community centered, and learner focused pathway to skill mastery.

Badging programs allow learners to develop their own path through subject-specific mastery of a specific skill or skill-sets. Digital badges allow students to develop skills and showcase specialized competencies to educators and employers.

Colorado Community College System is currently offering digital badges in 4 areas: Technical Math, Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering Graphics, and Online Faculty Development programs.

How do digital badges work?

Digital badges offer a new way to demonstrate your competencies to employers and others among your professional and personal network. Serving as symbols of skill attainment and skill mastery, badges are issued upon successfully showing competency mastery through some type of authentic assessment or evidence portfolio particular subject areas.

How do I use digital badges?

Once earned, you can share digital badges on your resume, e-portfolio and social networks. Badges are clickable, linking through to where they are officially stored either in your Credly account or in Mozilla Backpack. This allows others to see the details of your competencies and verify their authenticity as credentials earned through CCCS.

How does the digital badge hierarchy work?

Mastery Badge – Earned upon completion of all digital badges within a program, indicating by default, completion of all badges within a module or program. The Mastery badge is earned when the entire module program’s assessments has been completed with scores of 80% or higher.

Who can earn digital badges?

Anyone can earn digital badges. Current skill badge offerings are non-credit, so you don’t have to be admitted to any of the Colorado Community College System’s colleges, or meet any prerequisites, or have a certain GPA to earn badges.

How do I earn digital badges in this course?

This course has 23 different badges which can be awarded based on mastering very specific math competencies. To successfully complete the requirements associated with each badge, you must pass the module(s) assessments with a score of 80% or higher. If you complete the module requirement(s), a new module will be accessible directly below the module you have completed successfully. You can identify the module since it will have the words "Digital Badge Award" in its title.

When you successfully complete the requirements associated with each badge it will be awarded. To claim this official badge and share it on your social network you will need to click on the Digital Badge Award link in this module. When you click on the link, the CCCS Credly “Have you earned this Credit?” page will be displayed. It will have a “Claim this Credit” button. You Must be “Signed In” to the Credly account to claim your badge AND your Credly account MUST have the same email address as the email address you used to register for this course. If you don’t already have an account you can easily create one from the “Login” page, but REMEMBER to use the SAME email account that you used to register for this course.

Once you are signed in you, you may claim the Math Mastery badge by clicking on the “Claim this Credit” button. REMEMBER, you must use the same email to claim your badge as you have signed up for this course.

If you want to learn about digital badges, watch this short video

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