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The financial industry is highly regulated, and the College for Financial Planning (CFFP) knows that financial advisors must be very careful of how they represent their skills and certifications to the public. That's why CFFP sought a digital badge platform that would elevate the status of their designations and provide a secure and verified experience for the financial advisors, compliance departments, and potential clients. Read more about CFFP's approach to launching a digital badge program with Acclaim. 
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IBM and Acclaim are working together to build and progress the next generation workforce. What exactly does that mean? Learn more about IBM's approach to open badging through Acclaim to train and recognize IBM learners with just-in-time skills that employers need, now. Are you an organization interested in learning how you can impact the global workforce with open badges?
In less than one year of badging with Acclaim, Harper College’s Continuing Education department issued nearly 1,000 badges from a catalog of over 50 different badge types. Their badges recognize skills and learning outcomes that create professional opportunities for Harper College students in a way that makes it easy for employers to instantly recognize and value their capabilities. Read this case study to learn about Harper College's need for badging and its approach to selecting a badge platform, defining and marketing badges.
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career opportunities and your academic programs? The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) comprises more than 650 leading media and technology companies that sell, deliver and optimize digital advertising or marketing campaigns. Combined, they account for 86 percent of online advertising in the United States. The IAB Certification Program launched in 2012, created out of marketplace demand. It is the first digital advertising program to earn accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Additionally, IAB Learning & Development serves the industry by offering education programs and classes in Programmatic Advertising, Leadership, Digital Fundamentals and more. Always forward-thinking, IAB first experimented with static digital badges, but was soon challenged to find a more efficient way to manage and communicate the issuing and expiration of certifications, and for certification holders to easily share their achievements with employers, peers and professional networks. Download this case study to learn more about those challenges, the ways in which Acclaim helped IAB progress its digital badge program, and the key results that IAB has driven.
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career opportunities and your certification program? SBCC’s Career Skills Institute developed a flipped classroom model to build out more than 40 short courses that leveraged content available on Lynda.com. For each course, instructors curate a playlist of educational videos that students watch prior to attending class. After demonstrating proficiency in each course, students are issued badges to prove their competency to employers. Read more about the institution's approach and the results that SBCC has driven with its badging program through Acclaim.
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Digital badges are changing the way professional achievements are recognized, managed, shared and verified - and IBM is leading the way within their industry for maximizing the potential of badging. Read this case study to learn how IBM approached its badge program and how Acclaim has helped the company achieve its goals.
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Digital badges are changing the way professional achievements are recognized, managed, shared and verified - andIBM is leading the way within their industry for maximizing the potential of badging.
With four badge types across a variety of learning activities offered by the company and their Global Training Providers, IBM has recognized increased course completion, engagement rates and other tangible benefits thanks to its badging program. Watch this video from IBM to learn more.  Serving almost half of undergraduates in the U.S., community colleges have an increasing opportunity to provide students with effective, alternative ways to demonstrate workplace-ready skills. While transcripts and diplomas are long-standing, trusted validations of student achievement, digital badges can provide employers with a more detailed, transparent path of a student’s earned skills. Learn how four community colleges are using Acclaim badges to serve the employment needs of local students and businesses.     Madison College Continuing Education Madison College Continuing Education was an early adopter of digital badges as a means to recognize their students' work-readiness. In collaboration with businesses in Madison, Wisconsin, the Continuing Education department defined badges to specifically align with skill gaps in the local workforce. According to Dr. Jack E. Daniels, III, President, Madison College, "We are enhancing how we serve our students and our community by inspiring innovation and creating a new standard in non-credit continuing education." View Madison College's digital badges. Edmonds Community College Edmonds Community College offers 68 associate degrees and 58 professional certificates in 29 programs of study. The college is offering badges for skills learned through the PACE-IT Program, a self-paced, competency-based program that teaches the skills needed to prepare learners for certifications necessary for success in the IT field. View Edmonds Community College's digital badges. Anne Arundel Community College Anne Arundel Community College is an award-winning, fully accredited, public two-year institution serving more than 53,000 students each year through credit and noncredit programs in more than 200 areas of study and more than 2,800 courses. AACC offers badges for several types of learning activities including workforce development courses, workshop participation, conference attendance and faculty leadership. View Anne Arundel's digital badges. Santa Barbara City College Santa Barbara City College offers a noncredit certificate program to provide training to help individuals get a job, advance in a job and/or provide the skills needed to grow a business. These career skills courses are available across over 25 different certificate programs covering the areas of business, design and technology. View Santa Barbara City College's digital badges. Ready to learn how Acclaim badges could create connections between
career opportunities and your academic institution? Read the full article on the Fast Company website. "We're all going to be lifelong learners; we need to get credit for that in a way that's demonstrable." - Pete Janzow, Sr. Director of Acclaim  Acclaim team member, Pete Janzow, speaks to the group of training industry professionals. A couple weeks ago, the Acclaim team was invited to present at the Pearson Learning Leaders Forum in Chicago. The forum was titled The Power of Digital Badging in Professional Training and Development and featured three experts in the training industry who lent their unique perspectives to the topic.
When you work for an employer who not only sees the value in providing you with new learning opportunities, but wants to make sure your abilities are clearly communicated throughout the organization, you’re being set up to succeed. And by recognizing what you can do with a badge, your employer ensures that you’re in control of that achievement. Wherever you go within the company, or if you choose to make a move elsewhere, your badge goes with you. Badges ensure that skills and learning outcomes aren’t just a moment-in-time but can support you over the course of your career. |
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