Specifications include, but are not limited to: Required: ● Provide both a badge-hosting and badge-issuing solution ● Open Badging 2.0 compatible- includes (but is not limited to): portable images, standard vocabulary, credential validation, and multilingual linked data vocabulary ● Industry Standard Recognition ● Scalable- able to handle progressively larger number of badging options, and various levels of badges, as well as increase in student registration ● Provide functionality to manage gamification as well as badging ● Stackable badging that would allow for educational growth ● Must allow access to test environment and/or sandbox for 2 weeks prior to contract decision being made ● Allows potential employers to search for candidates that meet their requirements ● Provide portfolio for recipient that can be accessed 24/7 and will remain with student after leaving the institution Preferred: ● IMS Global Certified.
