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How to Connect RISE Performance with a Three-Tier Digital Badge Structure: A University of Seoul Case
The University of Seoul's RISE project team bundled the outcomes of 7 programs across 3 areas (industry-academia cooperation, AI, and convergence regional innovation) into 15 digital badges. This is the design behind a three-tier structure connecting unit badges through pathways to a comprehensive certification, turning scattered university achievements into verifiable one-line credentials.
When AI Takes Over the 'Doing': How University Majors and Digital Badges Are Changing
When AI takes over the 'doing' of a major, what should universities teach? Daegu Haany University, a Glocal University 30 institution and the only triple AID30 winner, redefines competency as domain knowledge to problem definition to AI execution to selection, and records the results as verifiable digital badges. An interview with Vice Director Park Seung-hee.
From no code to a first AI product: how UD IMPACT proves its 'AI startup education' across India and Indonesia
An interview on how UD IMPACT issued the completion proof for its India-Indonesia university AI startup course 'Action AI' as Kolleges digital badges - drawing 2,400 learners in two months in a free, no-code course and hitting a 68% social share rate on first issuance via API integration with its own LMS.
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2026 RISE·Anchor Performance Evaluation: 3 Steps to Prove University Outcomes with Data
As RISE becomes Anchor, budgets are divided by performance evaluation. Here is how to prove scattered university outcomes with the 3-tier digital badge structure and co-issuance, with cases.
How to Connect RISE Performance with a Three-Tier Digital Badge Structure: A University of Seoul Case
The University of Seoul's RISE project team bundled the outcomes of 7 programs across 3 areas (industry-academia cooperation, AI, and convergence regional innovation) into 15 digital badges. This is the design behind a three-tier structure connecting unit badges through pathways to a comprehensive certification, turning scattered university achievements into verifiable one-line credentials.
When AI Takes Over the 'Doing': How University Majors and Digital Badges Are Changing
When AI takes over the 'doing' of a major, what should universities teach? Daegu Haany University, a Glocal University 30 institution and the only triple AID30 winner, redefines competency as domain knowledge to problem definition to AI execution to selection, and records the results as verifiable digital badges. An interview with Vice Director Park Seung-hee.
From no code to a first AI product: how UD IMPACT proves its 'AI startup education' across India and Indonesia
An interview on how UD IMPACT issued the completion proof for its India-Indonesia university AI startup course 'Action AI' as Kolleges digital badges - drawing 2,400 learners in two months in a free, no-code course and hitting a 68% social share rate on first issuance via API integration with its own LMS.
Managing employee security-training completion: what changes with automatic certificates and digital badges
How BizMarket ran its employee security training on Kolleges' automatic certificates and digital badges - 166 credentials auto-issued, verifiable completion records, and client-proof requests handled in one screen.
Researching education for all: how SeeD connects a network of education experts
From fleeting association activities to verifiable records of growth - how SeeD adopted Kolleges digital badges.
Verifying the Authenticity of a Digital Badge
Pressing [Verify credential] on the badge detail page instantly confirms authenticity without the issuer's server. With just an issue code, verification link, or QR code, third parties such as recruiters can verify it themselves at [Credential Lookup].
Sharing Your Digital Badge
Tap the [Share this achievement] button on the badge detail page to share directly to LinkedIn, Facebook, or KakaoTalk, or copy the link and save the QR image to show your badge anywhere.
Exploring Your Badge Wallet
The badge wallet is the space that stores every digital badge you have received. Enter it by pressing [My Wallet] in the profile menu at the top right of the screen, then press a badge card to see its details or share and download it right away.
Downloading and Printing a Certificate
Press the [Download] button on the badge detail page and you can choose between Save as PNG image and Save as PDF document. The PDF carries a verification QR and URL, which makes it suitable for printing and submission.
Import Other Badges
From [Import other badges] at the bottom of your wallet, you can import a badge you received at another email by verifying that email, and a badge from another platform (Credly, Badgr, and the like) as an Open Badge file or URL.
Receiving Your Digital Badge
Press [Receive] in the email or [View certificate] in the KakaoTalk notification message, then complete identity verification, and your digital badge is stored permanently in your wallet. It takes about a minute.
Adding a Badge to Your LinkedIn Profile
Press the [Add to LinkedIn profile] button on the badge detail page and the LinkedIn certifications screen opens with the name, issuer, issue month and year, and certificate URL filled in automatically. Check the details, save, and you're done.
Checking the Badge Detail Page
The badge detail page shows every piece of information about a certificate — issuer, issue date, issuing criteria (earning criteria), skills, and co-issuers. Use the [Certificate] / [Badge] tabs on the left to switch between the two images.
Creating a Public Profile and Setting Its Visibility
A public profile is a page that gathers multiple badges into a single link. In the settings you can choose the visibility (Public, Anyone with the link, Private), the profile address, per-badge visibility, and your display name.
Recipient FAQ
The questions recipients ask most often, gathered in one place: what a digital badge is, whether it is secure, whether it expires. For the detailed steps, see the guide linked from each answer.
Running University Digital Badges: The Difference a Portal and Co-issuance Make (A Daegu Haany University Case)
University digital badges come down to operational structure beyond badge design. We lay out the differentiators that professors, education-innovation offices, and industry-academia foundations should look at: the dedicated portal Daegu Haany University built on Kolleges, co-issuance where two institutions sign together, KOLLEGES VERIFIED verification, and automatic issuance.
Designing the Digital Badge System for AID 30+ Intensive Camps and Bundled Courses
Design competency, course, and integrated badges for AID 30+ and Bundled Courses with the right metadata and automated issuance rules to satisfy both program evaluation and learner utility.
From Certificate Issuance to Connection: The Next Step in Outcome Management
Standards like Open Badges, CLR, and LER transform one-off certificate issuance into a connected, reportable flow of learning and employment outcomes.
Mother-Tongue Education: Why the Policy Exists but Doesn't Work in Classrooms
Mother-tongue education succeeds only when it starts in early grades, spans subjects, and is backed by coordinated teacher training and materials - not just official recognition.
When Grades Aren't Enough: How Do You Capture Student Competencies?
Transcripts capture scores but not skills - digital badges and CLR close that gap by connecting learning objectives through CASE to portable, verifiable competency records.
'Technology' and 'care' on a single certificate - Korea Polytechnic University Daejeon Campus's 'AI × Human Care' co-issuance
Two universities in Daejeon co-issued a single digital badge bearing both institutions' logos, solving the NCS stage-recognition gap inside a RISE regional innovation consortium.
The complete Open Badges 3.0 guide: how it differs from W3C Verifiable Credentials
Open Badges 3.0 wraps W3C Verifiable Credentials with an education-specific metadata layer, replacing platform-dependent verification with cryptographic signatures that let learners own and selectively disclose their credentials.
"Region, Industry, and University Thrive Together": President In-Seong Jang's Dongwon Institute of Science and Technology Opens the Next Stage of Regional Co-Prosperity with Digital Badges
Dongwon Institute of Science and Technology simultaneously rolled out Kolleges digital badges across three units, cutting national-program evidence work by 40% compared with paper certificates, and is now planning S/A/B grade differentiation to signal student competency to local employers.
World IT Show 2026 Recap: Why Certificates Need to Become Verifiable Data
WIS 2026 confirmed that institutions across Korea need more than certificate issuance - they need education outcomes structured as verifiable, reusable data, which is exactly what Open Badges 3.0 enables.
From Hobby to Certification to Instructor: How Hongik University Sejong's Lifelong Learning Center Is Building a Virtuous Cycle of Education
Hongik Sejong's RISE-funded Lifelong Learning Center replaced paper certificates with tiered Level 1-3 digital badges to record and sustain a hobby-to-certification-to-instructor growth path.
Digital Badge Use Cases Across Southeast Asia
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia are each building distinct digital-badge and micro-credential ecosystems - from SIM's stackable courses to TESDA's 335-course TVET registry.
A 10-Point Digital Badge Design Checklist for Your Institution
Badge programs fail not from bad technology but from skipping design-stage decisions; this 10-point checklist helps institutions build badges that recipients actually use and share.
How Global Companies Deploy Digital Badges: IBM, Salesforce, and Google
IBM, Salesforce, and Google show that digital badges drive measurable outcomes - from 70% higher program participation to 1M+ career-changing credentials - when built on open standards with sharing and verification infrastructure.
Inside Korea's 2026 AI·D Intensive Programs for Working Adults
Korea's 2026 AI·D intensive programs require universities to build digital badges into curriculum design, evaluation, and outcome diffusion from day one - not treat them as post-completion paperwork.
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