Digital Open Badges

What are Open Badges?

A Digital Open Badge shows others what you have accomplished. It can show your skills or interests, or any Continuing Professional Development (CPD) that you have achieved. Open Badges are displayed on social networking profiles, online CVs, job sites and more. Badges contain information about your learning achievements and CPD activities.

Your badges can help employers, organisations, educational institutions and individuals to verify your skills, interests and achievements.

How can I earn an Open Badge?

You can get a badge by attending and participating in events that offer Open Badges. At Cambridge English these include webinars, events and training days. When you have attended the event and fulfilled that badge’s learning objectives, you can claim your badge.

Open Badges from Cambridge English are in Beta. There will be lots of chances to give your feedback about how useful Open Badges are for you.

How do I collect and share Open Badges?

After you have attended an event or webinar that offers an Open Badge, it will be sent to you by Cambridge English. Our badges are issued by Open Badge Factory. They are the badging platform we are using for our Beta trial. Each badge will link back to details of the Cambridge English Professional Development event you attended.

After the event you will receive an email from Cambridge English through Open Badge Factory. This email will have instructions on how to set up an Open Badge Factory account to manage and collect your badges. If you would like to share your badge, you’ll need to set up an Open Badge Passport. This Passport will become your personal learning portfolio.

In your Passport you can organise badges and share them on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other online platforms.

Read our simple guide on how to get and share a badge