Badges/Issuers

This page includes information about some organizations that are currently issuing badges. Badge issuing organizations are groups or individuals who have content to share and/or contributions and skills that they want to recognize. They determine the criteria and system design behind their badges, and they align those badges with the Open Badges Infrastructure. This benefits earners whose portable badges can then tell robust stories about what they're capable of.

Organizations that issue badges come from various sectors and sizes. They include formal and informal educational institutions; multinational corporations; industry associations; non-profits; and groups interested in professional development. They share a common interest in making their badges shareable and interoperable in alignment with the OBI.

This list includes badge issuers who have chosen to share their badges here. If you're interested in having your organization and badges listed, please log into the wiki and click "Edit" (top middle of this page). You can then list your organization's name and any links to the badges that you've made available.

Note that entries (and links) listed here have not been separately verified as this is a wiki page which is open to all to edit.

Learning Management Systems Issuing Badges

• 3D GameLab: Classes built using game mechanics such as badges, experience points, levels and leaderboards, boost student engagement.

• Moodle: Badges created in Moodle may be displayed on a user's profile or pushed to their Open Badges backpack and public badge collections in their backpack will display in their Moodle profile.

• Moodle Experience: Moodle for Teachers (M4T) is a public network that provides free and open e-learning courses on how to teach online using Moodle course and learning management system and other web technologies.

• Totara LMS

Organization Currently Issuing Badges

Agriculture

• Sweet Water Foundation: Our mission is to democratize, globalize, and commercialize urban agriculture practices for resilient 21st century communities via hands-on, real-world learning grounded in concepts of community, equity, transformation and resilience.

Business Administration, Finance, and Economics

• Canvas: Badges awarded based on course completion, topics include Latin.

• First Business MOOC: Finance badge awarded based on satisfactory weekly course quiz results ...recently awarded finance badges

• Gigaverse: Credential categories include: Blogger, Community Manager, Freelance Writer, Online Artist, Online Author, Online Entertainer, Online Journalist, Online Merchant, Online Professional

• Keene State College: Psychology

• Think Associates Ltd, UK: Think Associates specialise in implementing e-enabled systems which help organisations improve the way they manage their staff.

• Think For A Change: Paul R. Williams, PMP, delivers educational, thought-leadership, coaching and consultation capabilities.

• CPA Center of Excellence®: Offering professional development for CPAs in business skills like leadership, critical thinking and collaboration. Badges awarded on completion.

Computer-based Entertainment

• Delvers of the Deep - A Minecraft Challenge Service: Use our free Challenge Service to explore every aspect and activity possible within the enormous play-space offered by Minecraft.

Education

• Association for Non-formal Education: Implementing qualification courses for youth workers in Europe and beyond. Issuing open badges for learning achievements during international mobility projects of youth workers in various European countries.

• CourseSites: Move Your Courses Online Free

• David Wiley: Introduction to Open Education course

• Games MOOC: The Games Based Learning MOOC

• Illinois Online Network: Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality badges cover topics in web, development, assessment, transformation. Users may also earn a Master Online Teacher or Certified Online Learning Administrator designation.

• Mane-U: Mane-U employs e-learning principles and a learning management system (LMS), allowing users to earn badges and compete in horse trivia and hippology.

• MOUSE: MOUSE empowers underserved youth to learn, lead, and create with technology, preparing them with skills essential for their academic and career success.

• NGO Nectarus: Implementing various community development and non-formal learning programmes in Europe. Using open badges for international mobility projects for young people in the field of youth work.

• NYC Department of Education: LearningTimes announced that the successful DIG/IT initiative offered in New York City public high schools has been expanded to provide badge-based learning to more than 4,000 students in the 2012-2013 school year.

• OnlineEnglishClassroom

• Open University / Cloudworks: A place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences.

• PASA - The Hub: The Hub is the high school initiative of the Providence After School Alliance (PASA). PASA’s mission is to expand and improve quality after school, summer, and other expanded learning opportunities for the youth of Providence by organizing a sustainable public private system that contributes to student success and serves as a national model.

• Peaceful Playgrounds Courses

• SAPO Campus: O Sapo Campus É Uma Rede De Comunicação E Colaboração Para Toda A Comunidade Escolar.

• Shedd Aquarium: The goal of this program is to offer a flexible, interactive professional development opportunity that brings together a community of teachers.

• Smithsonian Quests: Check out a sampling of some of our most popular digital badge offerings in a variety of different subject areas and disciplines.

• Youtopia: Use digital rewards to get your students to go the extra mile ...or ten.

Health

• i⁺academy: Medical staff training

• YMCA of Greater New York: The Y-MVP Teen Fitness Challenge is an innovative eight-week program designed to stimulate teens to increase their daily levels of Moderate to Vigorous Physical activity.

Higher Education

• ALTEC (Anderson Language Technology Center) at the University of Colorado Boulder: We are a service department which supports the language learning community at the University and in the state of Colorado.

• Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin: BeuthBadges

• Compass Learning Services

• EDUCAUSE: A nonprofit association and the foremost community of IT leaders and professionals committed to advancing higher education.

• Omicron Systems

• SLOOP Project (ITSOS 'Marie Curie'): Sei interessato allo scambio di risorse didattiche digitali "aperte"?

• SUNY Empire State College

• Training Magazine: A 50-year-old professional development magazine that advocates training and workforce development as a business tool.

• UniMOOC aemprende: Learn to undertake courses for entrepreneurs UniMOOC. It's free, open, online and in Spanish.

Museums

• Dallas Museum of Art: DMA Friends is a FREE membership program that allows you to earn badges and points to unlock special rewards when you visit the DMA.

• Museum Computer Network - MCN Pro Workshop Series: Our goals are to provide engaging and effective professional development training, connect experts across the MCN community, and make you the pro to know at your museum.

• Museums & Mobile: Featuring projects from institutions around the world, the conference will explore many of the challenges faced by institutions in the planning, design and delivery of mobile projects.

• Smithsonian American Art Museum

• Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies

Technology

• Accredible: Digital credential and badge platform for issuers and recipients.

• Achievery: Digital credential and badge system design

• An Estuary

• BadgeBridge: Transfer proprietary Foursquare Badges into your Mozilla OpenBadges Backpack.

• CancanIT is the online center of certification for web developers and programmers.

• Code School: Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts.

• Cybersociety Observatory

• DIDASCA: The First Italian Cyber Schools for Lifelong Learning, DIDASCA Badge sample

• Faredidattica nel web 2.0

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF: Issuing badges on topics related to biodiversity informatics.

• IPT EdTec: Website development, video production, educational copyright, technology concepts, social media and delivery.

• JQuery: Technical badges for course completion

• Mozilla Webmaker

• OpenBadgesUA: OpenBadgesUA is a complete solution which lets you to issue badges and will allow your users claim their badges and display them in different websites.

• Oxand Academy: The Game Based Learning Department of Oxand makes use of open badges as a rewarding system for participants to training and business game workshops

• Peer to Peer University: At P2PU, learning is guided by people, passion, and projects. We’ve created this Badge platform to spark feedback between Experts and Learners about their learning projects.

• Studentnet: Cloudwork provide a Single Sign-On Identity Manager – one password allows multiple access to a universe of Cloudwork Compatible services.

• Synapsys N. Z. Ltd.

• Telecom SudParis: French MOOC (implemented with LMS Moodle) about Telecoms Concepts

• Unique Learning Badges

• Unow: Awarded based on course completion for functional analysis.

• Zeleni Tranzistor: Nevladina Organizacija

Organizations Displaying Badges

Education

• 3D GameLab: Classes built using game mechanics such as badges, experience points, levels and leaderboards, boost student engagement.

• Degreed: Individuals and organizations use Degreed to find, track, and recognize ALL learning.

• Makewaves: Makewaves is a community of thousands of schools sharing their creativity and raising achievement with badges.

• Veriod ƒçesky]: Dejte svým klientům, podřízeným nebo spolupracovníkům potvrzení, které osvědčí, že něco dokázali, něco umí, v něčem se angažují. Zvýšíte jejich motivaci a otevřete jim další příležitosti.

Technology

• Sertifier: Sertifier enables organizations and individuals to issue digital badges and digital certificates easily and automatically to recognize skills & achievements.

• Credly: Recognize achievement using the platforms and tools you use today, or tap into the Open Credit API to integrate credentials and badges into your own apps and sites.

• DigitalMe: At Digitalme we work with teachers, charities and employers to create a new digital currency that recognises all young people's skills and talents. - See more at: http://www.digitalme.co.uk/#sthash.Vz5KjC4C.dpuf

Organizations Currently Designing Badges

Agriculture

• Sweet Water Foundation: Our mission is to democratize, globalize, and commercialize urban agriculture practices for resilient 21st century communities via hands-on, real-world learning grounded in concepts of community, equity, transformation and resilience.

Business Administration, Finance, and Economics

• RWA Group: Hundreds of brokers in the UK turn to RWA for their compliance, training & competence, HR and business support needs.

• YALSA: Business Success Through Gamification

Education

• Credit Flex: Do What You Want in School. Get Credit for it, too.

• Excellere Consultora Educativa: Our main task is to serve teachers, educational institutions, students of careers teachers, professionals and parents in the education sector, through the ultimate purpose of education: the development of human beings.

• Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: A community focused social learning platform that features one in-depth learning experience that works, MentorMob makes learning easier for everyone.

• Learn to Discover: Learn to Discover is a 501c(3) nonprofit that designs, develops and delivers high-quality, hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math) courses and activities to kids from pre-school through high-school.

• Mane-U: Mane-U employs e-learning principles and a learning management system (LMS), allowing users to earn badges and compete in horse trivia and hippology.

• Makewaves: Makewaves is a community of thousands of schools sharing their creativity and raising achievement with badges.

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Planet Stewards allows students to create their own personalized learning pathways in environmental and science literacy, and earn badges representing NOAA sciences career pathways.

• Tamritz: Through a national digital badge learning network, TAMRITZ Education and students develop habits of connected learners and level up their skill sets in digital media and learning.

Higher Education

• Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University: The Erma Ora Byrd Center for Educational Technologies houses cutting-edge educational technology on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, WV.

• Congreso Virtual de Educación y TIC: “La Escuela del Futuro”

• IPT EdTec: Our hope is to help teachers, future teachers, or people interested in technology learn what they need to know and get credit for it.

• UniMOOC aemprende: Learn to undertake courses for entrepreneurs UniMOOC. It's free, open, online and in Spanish.

• University of Illinois at Chicago Library

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• University of Southern California's Joint Educational Project: Founded in 1972, the Joint Educational Project (JEP) is one of the oldest and largest service-learning programs in the United States.

Technology

• An Estuary

• coderbits: We build factual up-to-date portfolios from sites you use to showcase your skills, expertise, traits, code, designs, education, and more.

• Cybersociety Observatory: The Cybersociety Observatory is a multidisciplinary space for debate and reflection where technologies are both called in question and considerate from different approaches, taking into account their value, social impact and encouraging research and experimentation about the cybersociety.

• Digital Media + Learning Competition: Join the Trust Challenge and solve some of the thorniest issues facing connected learning today.

• DigitalMe: At Digitalme we work with teachers, charities and employers to create a new digital currency that recognises all young people's skills and talents. - See more at: http://www.digitalme.co.uk/#sthash.Vz5KjC4C.dpuf

• OpenBadgesUA: OpenBadgesUA is a complete solution which lets you to issue badges and will allow your users claim their badges and display them in different websites.

• Professional Examination Service: ProExam has been helping set standards in credentialing for seven decades. Founded in 1941 as the testing arm of the American Public Health Association, ProExam became an independent, not-for-profit entity 30 years later, focused on taking a personalized, flexible and insightful approach to meeting the needs of a broad spectrum of credential sponsors.

Organizations Exploring Badges for Their Communities

Agriculture

• Sweet Water Foundation: Our mission is to democratize, globalize, and commercialize urban agriculture practices for resilient 21st century communities via hands-on, real-world learning grounded in concepts of community, equity, transformation and resilience.

Business Administration, Finance, and Economics

• My-Values: This is a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution dedicated to independent research and the advancement of high ethical standards and practices.

Education

• Makewaves: Makewaves is a community of thousands of schools sharing their creativity and raising achievement with badges.

• NOAA Planet Stewards: Planet Stewards allows students to create their own personalized learning pathways in environmental and science literacy, and earn badges representing NOAA sciences career pathways.

• St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls: St Hilda's is an Anglican school for girls (and boys in the Early Learning Centre) from Junior Kindergarten to Year 12 with a Boarding House which caters for 150 students from all parts of the world.

• Tamritz: Through a national digital badge learning network, TAMRITZ Education and students develop habits of connected learners and level up their skill sets in digital media and learning.

• The Corps Network: Corps are comprehensive youth development programs that provide their participants with job training, academic programming, leadership skills, and additional support through a strategy of service that improves communities and the environment.

• The Southport School, Queensland, Australia: Founded in 1901, TSS is an Anglican day and boarding school on the Gold Coast for boys from Prep Year to Year 12 with boarding available from Year 5.

Higher Education

• Appleby College

• WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies: WCET accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education.

Technology

• Cybersociety Observatory: The Cybersociety Observatory is a multidisciplinary space for debate and reflection where technologies are both called in question and considerate from different approaches, taking into account their value, social impact and encouraging research and experimentation about the cybersociety.

• The Restart Project: The Restart Project is a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electronics longer, by sharing repair and maintenance skills.