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Q How official are the certificates that are issued A In short At CCCS issuing certificates required state approval. The Colorado Department of Higher Education granted authority to the System board for any award included in the program approvals. Most secondary and postsecondary programs have an approval process which asks what industry certifications can be conferred in the program. Q Are badges included as industry certifications A No. Why Because as of today the Colorado Department of Higher Education and the Colorado Department of Education collects data on industry certifications but not on badges awarded.
This is because when we set up the badging framework at CCCS and governance of digital badges badges were to be used to document employment skill sets and not for educational Netherlands Mobile Number List transfer credit which is already documented with our courses certificates and degrees. We believed that digital badges were a workforce relevance enhancement for our traditional offerings. In our system Director of Prior Learning Assessment worked with our board to modify our CPLPLA policy to allow for the evaluation of digital badges for college credit using the same procedure any other request for evaluation of prior learning for college credit.
There was an anticipation that the community college student profile was rapidly changing our system needed to be prepared for the unbundled student who had learning from multiple sources and one of those sources could be from documented and verifiable learning represented by a digital badge. Q What is the process for reviewing and approving a digital badge A The initial work the Digital Badge Taskforce completed prior to deciding to start issuing digital badges created a framework and governance plan. An idea for a badge can be proposed by any of the colleges in the CCCS rkforce We Havent.
This is because when we set up the badging framework at CCCS and governance of digital badges badges were to be used to document employment skill sets and not for educational Netherlands Mobile Number List transfer credit which is already documented with our courses certificates and degrees. We believed that digital badges were a workforce relevance enhancement for our traditional offerings. In our system Director of Prior Learning Assessment worked with our board to modify our CPLPLA policy to allow for the evaluation of digital badges for college credit using the same procedure any other request for evaluation of prior learning for college credit.
There was an anticipation that the community college student profile was rapidly changing our system needed to be prepared for the unbundled student who had learning from multiple sources and one of those sources could be from documented and verifiable learning represented by a digital badge. Q What is the process for reviewing and approving a digital badge A The initial work the Digital Badge Taskforce completed prior to deciding to start issuing digital badges created a framework and governance plan. An idea for a badge can be proposed by any of the colleges in the CCCS rkforce We Havent.