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Badges and certificates

Based on how you have designed your training in the fields above, your course will be eligible for either a certificate or a badge. See the requirements for each in the page below, noting the necessary instructor presence required for a course to provide certificates: 

Recognition of training completionBADGECERTIFICATE
Duration<16 hours
(study effort for course completion)

>16 hours*
(study effort for course completion)

*instructor-led live sessions <16 hrs, may be eligible for certification

Instructor presence

Self-directed:

  • Self-paced authored, interactive content
  • Asynchronous sessions / Recorded content
  • Forum participation (mandatory or optional), without instructor feedback 

Instructor-led  
(includes at least one of the following):

  • Live/Synchronous sessions
  • Mandatory forums with active instructor moderation 
    (discussions monitoring, provision of feedback on learnerparticipant postings throughout the course).
  • Assignments: individual project; essays, groupwork tasks/deliverables, with qualitative grading, provision of personalized feedback. 
Social Learning 
(groupwork, forums)
OptionalRecommended
Knowledge assessments Mandatory
(Quiz/Test)
Mandatory
(Assignments Quiz / Test)
Recommended 
Bloom’s taxonomy level 
  1. Remember  
    (recall facts and basic concepts)
  2. Understand 
    (explain ideas and concepts)
  3. Apply 
    (use information in new situations)
  1. Analyze 
    (draw connections among ideas)
  2. Evaluate 
    (make judgements based on criteria and standards, after evaluation of the information)
  3. Create 
    (put together/reorganize elements to produce new or original work) 
Learning Objectives verbs 
(examples) 
  1. define, identify, list
  2. clarify, describe, explain, contrast
  3. use, solve, implement, demonstrate 
  1. compare, organize, examine, correlate, distinguish
  2. assess, appraise, conclude
  3. design, arrange, develop, assemble, create