Open Badge
What is the Open Badge?
The Open Badges are digital certificates, of disciplinary knowledge, personal skills (soft skills) and technical skills acquired.
They consist of a graphic part, the image, and some specifications, the metadata, which indicate a skill acquired or a skill or a goal achieved, the method used to verify it, the indication of who issued it and the identity of the person who obtained it.
They are guaranteed by the body that provides them and internationally recognized.
They are hosted within a dedicated platform https://bestr.it/organization/show/65, according to an open source format and readable by all applications that read Open Badges.
Why redeem an Open Badge?
- to make the skills acquired more expendable;
- to propose, through social networks, to companies that select figures with specific knowledge, skills and competencies;
- to validate and enhance what has been learned over the years and make it visible with the personal e-Portfolio;
- because they allow you to improve and increase your certified skills, promoting professional growth and employability;
- because they integrate the electronic personal course track;
- because they can be collected, shown and shared;
- because they allow you to communicate, at an international level, quickly and reliably by using the information contained, in various areas (job search, recruiting by companies, etc.);
- because they can be disseminated through social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Pinterest) by downloading and sending the badge image from the dedicated page or linking to it;
- to increase the web reputation of those who consider them useful for recruitment purposes;
- To increase the visibility and web reputation of those who issue them.
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