2025 Badge Summit: Full Schedule

12:00am MDT

Competency-Based Microcredentials for Educators: A Case Study with Delaware Department of Education

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:00am - 12:15am MDT

In this session, we will hear from program leaders at the Delaware Department of Education, who are using competency-based micro-credentials as an integral part of their educator professional development strategy. We will detail the history of our partnership, their program goals and findings from recent submissions and recent educator feedback that is helping to shape their program. Interactive elements will be incorporated, including live polling and opportunities for Q & A.

Speakers

Alyssa Moore, Ed.D.

Education Associate, Digital Learning, Delaware Department of Education

Alyssa Moore is the Digital Learning Education Associate and Lead of the Digital Learning Office for Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Development at the Delaware Department of Education. In this role, she works with hundreds of educators across the state to offer valuable... Read More →

Ashley Miller

Program Manager, Credentials, Digital Promise

At Digital Promise, Ashley helps guide partners through the process of designing, developing, and evaluating competency-based, equity-focused learning experiences for diverse sets of learners. Ashley resides in Columbus, Ohio, where she has worked to promote equitable access to higher... Read More →

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:00am - 12:15am MDT

VIRTUAL, Virtual: Deep-Dive

12:00am MDT

Deep Dive: Discussion of questions and themes around Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:00am - 12:15am MDT

In this virtual session, DCC Director Dr. Kerri Lemoie will address questions and themes that arose from the DCC Fishbowl activity hosted by DCC Operations and Project Manager Gillian Walsh. Topics may include: the function of issuer registries in VC ecosystems, trust models for VCs and Open Badges, digital identity solutions, and applications in higher education. If time allows, participants will be able to ask Dr. Lemoie questions related to VCs and Open Badges.

Speakers

Kerri Lemoie

Executive Director, Digital Credentials Consortium

Kerri Lemoie, Ph.D. directs the development, planning, and strategy of the DCC. Kerri has been working on the web for 25+ years as a web developer and in multiple leadership capacities and advisory roles. As one of the founding technical contributors to Open Badges, she is a recognized... Read More →

Gillian Walsh

Operations and Project Manager, Digital Credentials Consortium

Gillian Walsh is the Operations and Project Manager for the Digital Credentials Consortium (DCC). Her work focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of academic programming and technologies that promote equitable pathways for meaningful careers for learners across the... Read More →

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:00am - 12:15am MDT

VIRTUAL, Virtual: Deep-Dive

12:30am MDT

Come Join Us - It's the Era of All Learning Counts!

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:30am - 12:45am MDT

This panel of instigators will engage in a provocative and interactive discussion about what an All Learning Counts movement could mean at this moment in time, and will provoke a deep conversation among attendees for how this movement might help advance thinking about 1) where learning happens, by whom, and for whom; 2) how we can assess, validate, recognize knowledge, skills, and abilities regardless of source; 3) how this paradigm can help meet labor market needs - both in addressing skill gaps but also experience gaps; 4) how it can accelerate on-ramps to furthering education and off-ramps to career opportunities for learners; 5) how it can address equity issues; 6) and therefore, a bigger "So What?" and "Yes, now!"

Speakers

Haley Glover

Senior Director, UpSkill America, Aspen Institute

More than twenty years of experience solving complex social, economic, and educational issues. Expertise in policy research, philanthropic strategy design, program development, evaluation, legislative analysis and interpretation, coalition building, strategy development, and strategic... Read More →

Jeremy McQuigge

Secretary General, Council Advancing Work-Based Learning

A champion of work-based learning as an accredited learning system, I aim to transform innovative thinking into practical applications that lead to family- and community-supporting careers for all who seek one.

Melanie Booth

Principal, Nectary Solutions

Dr. Melanie Booth has 25 years of leadership in connecting education and work, primarily in postsecondary and nonprofit organizations. Over her career she has worked directly and indirectly with hundreds of colleges, universities, and organizations to affect change in the learn and... Read More →

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:30am - 12:45am MDT

VIRTUAL, Virtual: Deep-Dive

12:30am MDT

Credentials and the Circle of Trust

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:30am - 12:45am MDT

The biggest challenge facing the credential world currently is that of organisations "consuming" the credentials that all the credential issuers are busy creating. Employers, Universities etc have certain credentials that they know and recognise but why should they trust new digital forms of recognition? The latest version of the Open Badge Standard (V3), provides functionality that can help both credential issuers and consumers increase trust and will be key to driving widespread adoption. In this session Stephen will explain how large organisations can use credentials to support large reskilling efforts and how to increase trust in the meaning and value of those credentials.

(I will do a table talk based on the same theme. Something like "Ten practical ways to increase trust in your credentials")

Speakers

Stephen Buckley

Managing Director, Digital Credentials Ltd

As the founder of IBM Consulting's pioneering digital badge programme, I am deeply passionate about leveraging digital credentials to recognise and celebrate achievements. With extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale global corporate credential initiatives... Read More →

Tuesday August 5, 2025 12:30am - 12:45am MDT

VIRTUAL, Virtual: Deep-Dive