Motivate and inspire your students with our badges

We have created 18 badges that you can send to your students as a proof/certification that they have completed successfully the in-class exercises.

Reward your students

How to reward your students with Open Badges

How does it work

Use our platform to give certifications to your students, each time they complete a social entrepreneurship exercise in the class room.

Step 1

First step is to become a Social Entrepreneurship teacher by completing the teachers’ course with at least 75% and receiving the mentor badge!

Step 2

Select one in class exercise from our toolkit. At the relevant page you can view the badge. For example “Marshmallow” exercise is connected with Creativity.

Step 3

Go to our “Rewarding section” and find the relevant badge.

Step 4

Enter the student’s emails and names.

Step 5

Each student receives an email with the badge. S(he) now has a public page to demonstrate and share as a proof for acquiring the relevant skill (see example).

Why rewarding your students via Open Badges is powerful?

Open Badges are a digital representation of skills, learning outcomes, achievements or experience such as:

> Hard skills: knowledge, competences, etc.
> Soft skills: collaboration, communication, etc.
> Participation and community involvement
> Official certification
> Authorization

Open Badges are verifiable, portable digital badges with embedded metadata about skills, achievements and experience, and they are shareable across the web. Each Open Badge is associated with an image and information about the badge, its recipient, the issuer, and supporting evidence. Badges can be used to set goals, to motivate behavior or convey success. They can be particularly useful for recognizing new forms of learning beyond the traditional classroom environment. Learning happens everywhere, and badges provide a way to validate the outcome..

Benefits of Open Badges

> Badges can demonstrate a wider range of skills and achievements of a learner acquired through formal, non-formal and informal learning methods and activities.
> Badges are portable and verifiable digital objects. All this information may be packaged within a badge image file that can be displayed via online CVs and social networks.
> Each Badge includes the description of the achievement: i.e., it describes the particular path a learner undertook for his or her achievement, accompanied by the evidence to support the badge award.
> Each Badge includes information about the earner’s identity, a link to information about the issuer and a link to a description of what a badge represents.
> Badges can be used to unlock learning and career pathways. They can be used to support individuals to achieve learning goals, to provide routes into employment; and to nurture and progress talent within organizations.
> Badges can represent personal attributes that matter to employers (such as soft skills).
> Badges can be used in professional context. Thousands of organizations, including non-profit organizations, major employers or educational institutions, issue badges in accordance with the Open Badges Specification.

Related material:

An Introduction to Open Badges

Example of Creativity badge: An Introduction to Open Badges awarded to a Student.