Linkr Digital Badges: Modern credentials for modern learners

Linkr provides a powerful and integrated way for institutions, organizations and professional networks to leverage the power of digital badges.

Credentials that reflect real-world skills

Digital badges help higher education institutions, organizations and professional networks clearly communicate the skills and competencies learners acquire. They improve alumni employability by offering verifiable, shareable credentials aligned with workforce needs. Digital badges also provide a way to recognize learning in all variety of learning programs: experiential learning programs, co-curricular programs, micro-credential programs, and professional development programs. Integrating badging within a learning program enables institutions, organizations and professional networks to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving education landscape.

Why use badges?

Make learning outcomes more visible and verifiable

Digital badges represent specific skills, competencies, and achievements which makes learning more transparent to learners, employers and external partners. With digital badges, it’s easier to show that a student has mastered a particular skill, such as data analysis, lab techniques, programming languages, teaching or tutoring skills, etc. Or, it can indicate that a person has completed a certain learning pathway, like having collaborated effectively with an intercultural team or completed a certain project.

Improve graduate employability and career readiness

Employers increasingly hire based on skills, not just degrees. Digital badges translate academic achievements into job-relevant competencies and help students articulate and show what they learned and can do, not just what they studied

Enhance lifelong learning and micro-credential programs

Because of their flexibility, digital badges are ideal for short programs, certificates, workshops, and bootcamps that are used in continuing education and professional development. As such, they align perfectly with the global shift toward modular, lifelong learning.

Increase student engagement and motivation

Digital badges increase student engagement by recognizing progress and achievement throughout the learning journey, not just at the end of a program. By breaking learning into smaller, achievable milestones, badges give students clear goals and a sense of momentum, which encourages persistence and course completion.

Recognize learning beyond the classroom

Digital badges can be used to validate internships, research participation, as well as the acquisition of soft skills during projects (teamwork, leadership, communication), and extracurricular / co-curricular activities. This acknowledges the full student experience, not just coursework.

Strengthen brand and innovation image

Issuing digital badges signals innovation and modern credentialing, and helps differentiate the badge issuer in a competitive market. It appeals to adult learners, international students, and employers. Since they are shared across social or professional networks, they help increase brand awareness and dynamism.

Linkr is the best platform for digital badges

Linkr’s digital badges are easy to implement, fully integrated into our experiential learning platform, and let you manage credentials efficiently without relying on multiple disconnected tools.