Understanding digital credentials
In today’s digital world, it’s important to understand the information a digital credential contains and what it means. In essence: what you can do with it and what it tells you about the bearer.
Use the guides below to understand how you can use, or interpret, digital credentials:
About digital credentials
Digital credentials are a modern and portable recognition of skills, capabilities and achievements:
- For learners – digital credentials empower learners by providing them with a modern, secure, and efficient means of representing their educational, professional and other achievements in today’s digital landscape.
- For employers – digital credentials offer a quicker and more accurate assessment of candidates, as they can be verified more efficiently and demonstrate skills that employers can align directly with role requirements.
Digital credentials typically comprise of:
- A digital badge – an image of a badge with embedded metadata. Metadata is a structured reference that helps to sort and identify attributes of the information it describes
- A digital badge summary – that displays course information and the overall achievement being awarded
- A Personal or Provisional Evidence Record – which may include learner-level qualitative and quantitative achievement data, skill definitions, artefacts and framework alignments
Digital Badge
(Image with metadata)
