Badge Engine

Shaping the Future of Learning with Open-Source Digital Credentials

Digital Promise is committed to advancing equitable education by uniting research, practice, and technology into scalable solutions. Badge Engine is an open-source badging technology designed to empower learners and organizations alike.

What is Badge Engine?

Badge Engine is a stable, open-source technology that allows organizations to easily create and manage their own digital badging programs. By adhering to global standards, Badge Engine ensures that digital credentials are portable, recognizable, and learner-controlled across institutions and industries.

Why Choose Badge Engine?

• Free and Open Source: This cost-effective solution enables you to issue badges you have technology infrastructure to support open-source products.
• Learner Empowerment: Digital badges issued through Badge Engine are owned by learners, giving them full control over their achievements and how they’re shared.
• Sustainability: Open-source technology promotes long-term use and flexibility, ensuring institutions can build solutions tailored to their needs with adherence to 1EdTech’s Open Badges Standard V3.0.

Who Can Use Badge Engine?

Badge Engine is ideal for any organization interested in issuing Open Badges, including:

• Workforce training programs
• Higher education institutions
• K-12 and P16 education systems
• Professional development providers
• Corporations, nonprofits, NGOs, and government agencies

How Learners Benefit

Badge Engine gives learners the tools to take ownership of their success. With portable, verifiable digital badges, learners can showcase their skills and achievements wherever they go—whether applying for jobs, enrolling in further education, or advancing their careers.

Built for Impact and Inclusion

For more than a decade, Digital Promise has developed competency-based micro-credentials using digital badging technology, focused on serving historically excluded learners. Badge Engine reflects our commitment to equity through providing an open, accessible technology for institutions to support all learners with meaningful recognition.

How is Badge Engine Different from Digital Promise’s Micro-credential Platform?

Organizations are invited to join us in shaping a future where every learner’s achievement is recognized, portable, and truly theirs to own.

Start Using Badge Engine

Organizations and engineers who have the technical expertise to implement open-source products can access and download Badge Engine on Digital Promise’s public GitHub repository, where all the technical documentation is available.

Digital Promise Help Desk

Digital Promise’s Help Desk, which is our customer service portal, provides many articles and resources about our products including Badge Engine specific articles.

Contact Us

Interested in leveraging Digital Promise’s expertise for your program? Please leave us a note.

This work was funded by Walmart.