Welcome to MyKnowledgeMap, one of the leading providers of digital credentialing technology for education and corporate training. Our technology is designed to help organizations recognize and validate the knowledge and skills of their learners, and to provide them with verifiable credentials that they can share with others.
Here are some of the benefits of using MyKnowledgeMap digital credentialing technology within your learning technology solutions:
Validation: Our digital credentials provide learners with a verifiable way to validate their knowledge and skills. Our credentials are tamper-proof and can be shared securely with potential employers, colleagues, and other stakeholders. This provides learners with a competitive advantage in the job market and helps organizations build a talent pool of qualified individuals.
Engagement: Our digital credentials are a powerful motivator for learners. They provide learners with a sense of accomplishment and recognition for their hard work and dedication. This, in turn, leads to increased engagement and retention rates, resulting in more successful learning outcomes.
Customization: Our digital credentialing technology allows you to create custom badges and credentials that align with your organization's unique learning objectives and outcomes. You can create badges that recognize specific skills or competencies, helping learners and organizations track progress and identify areas for improvement.
Integration: Our digital credentialing technology seamlessly integrates with your existing learning management systems (LMS) and other technology solutions. This means you can easily incorporate digital credentials into your existing learning solutions and provide your learners with a more comprehensive and engaging learning experience.
Innovation: Our digital credentialing technology is constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of the learning and talent development industry. We are committed to innovation and staying ahead of the curve, ensuring that our technology provides the most relevant and effective solutions for our clients.
At MyKnowledgeMap, we believe that digital credentialing is a game-changer for the learning and talent development industry. Our technology can help you recognize and validate the knowledge and skills of your learners, and provide them with the credentials they need to succeed. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you transform your learning solutions with digital credentialing technology.
What’s an Open Badge?
Open Badges are verifiable, portable digital badges with embedded metadata about skills and achievements. They comply with the Open Badges Specification and are shareable across the web.
Each Open Badge is associated with an image and information about the badge, its recipient, the issuer, and any supporting evidence. All this information may be packaged within a badge image file that can be displayed via online CV's and social networks. Thousands of organisations across the world issue badges in accordance with the Open Badges Specification, from non-profits to major employers to educational institutions at all levels.
What do Open Badges mean?
Badges may represent many different types of achievements and claims:
Hard skills such as proficiency in a programming language
Soft skills like collaboration
Participation
Official certification
Authorisation
Community involvement
New skills and literacies not recognized by traditional education providers
Because the system is based on an open standard, recipients can combine multiple badges from different Issuers to tell the complete story of their verifiable achievements—both online and off. Open Badges can be displayed wherever recipients want them on the web, including on social media profiles and through services that store and display badges. Badges can be shared for employment, education, or lifelong learning.
Anyone can Issue a badge, receive one, verify that a badge is real, or inspect the metadata and any associated evidence. Badge issuers can certify that their badges are technically compliant with the specification and therefore, can be readily moved among Backpacks and display sites. Badges can be used to set goals, motivate behavior, connect learning environments, and communicate achievements across many contexts.
Benefits of an Open badge
Qualification recognition
Providing a digital certificate and a badge for your qualifications enables your learners to be more widely recognised for your qualification. A digital badge can be shared and used in multiple ways in our modern digital world.
1. Reinforce your brand and awareness of your qualifications
2. Provide a digital currency for your learners, e.g. in their resumes
3. Differentiate the value that your programs provide
4. Improve the security and auditability for your certification process
Motivating small steps
Create different badges for small steps in your training programs, so that learners can be recognised and motivated for achieving specific outcomes, building to your overall completion award.
1. Encourage and reward progression
2. Gamify your learning programs
3. Monitor progression more easily
4. Create clear pathways to success
Modern Certification
Upgrade from printing and mailing paper certificates to digital certificates supported by a portable badge credential. Save time and money while improving the service and value you provide your users.
1. Supplement or replace your paper certificates
2. Improve security and audibility
3. Empower your users to easily share achievements, e.g. on LinkedIn
4. Reinforce your brand through wider digital use
Skill Portability
Discovering your learner's skills and competencies becomes much easier and more valuable to the learner if you have provided them with a digital credential that they can share widely.
1. Make resumes stand out from the crowd with digital badges
2. Share skills via badges on LinkedIn and other social media platforms
3. Unlock skills data within digital badges
4. Future-proof to international standards
Evidence Professional Development
A modern digital credential or digital badge becomes recognisable, discoverable and verifiable evidence of professional mastery and/or completion of a training program.
1. Enhance your organisation's brand and reputation
2. Provide your users with a portable skills currency
3. For membership organisations, support communities of practice
4. Support tiered delivery via accredited centres
Event attendance
Easily create communities of users for your events and conferences where your attendees can all identify shared experiences via their badge, display on LinkedIn and generally indicate that they are proud members of your community.
1. Quickly issue badges to attendees from an import file
2. Promote brand awareness and recognition for your events
3. Recognise continuing professional development
4. Provide verifiable evidence of event attendance
Integrate with Systems
Implement digital badges and certificates without the disruption of replacing your existing processes and systems. Use our advanced APIs and plug-ins to seamlessly integrate with your existing workflows.
1. Simple badge-issuing API
2. Event-driven issuing rules engine
3. Off-the-shelf plugins available for popular apps
4. Comprehensive documentation and support service