Badge System Designer
This badge represents the ability to design a badge system that recognises learning for a real-world use case.
The earner can define who a recognition system is for and what it should achieve, and can translate that intent into a structure. They can map a learner's journey through an experience, identify the milestones and smaller steps that mark progress along it, and place badges where they do something useful.
The earner understands a badge system as a design object and process with its own dynamics, and can explain the reasoning behind their choices — why this target group, why these milestones, why a badge belongs at this point. They have applied guidelines for making quality badges and activities, and have exchanged their badge system designs and thinking with peers.
The learning connects to:
- ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers to Work Internationally — Designing programmes, with elements of Assessing and evaluating.
- LifeComp — Critical thinking and Managing learning, and Collaboration in the Social area.
- DigComp 2.2 — 3.1 Developing digital content, as it applies to designing digital credentials and recognition pathways.
Duration: approximately 4 hours · Level: Intermediate · Evidence verified by organisers
This badge is issued by the Cities of Learning Network within the YOUTH360 capacity-building project, which aims to strengthen youth employability and the recognition of non-formal learning through digital tools, Open Badges, and the Cities of Learning ecosystem across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. Erasmus+ co-funds the project.
Tasks
Task no.1
Evidence verified by: one activity organiser
To earn this badge:
- Take part in the full session on designing a badge system.
- Agree with your team on a target group and on what their badge system should achieve.
- Design a badge system with your team — set its goals, map the learner journey, identify milestones and progress badges, and decide what each moment of the journey needs to do.
- Explain your badge system and the design choices behind it to peers, and respond to their questions and feedback.
Evidence requirements:
- Your design choices: Explain 2–3 choices your team made and why. For example: who you designed for and why they need recognition, why the journey has the milestones it has, what a particular badge is meant to do at that point, or something you decided against.
- Upload photos of your team's poster or notes — the learner journey and the badges you placed along it. Work in progress is fine.