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Open Badges 3.0 and Verifiable Credentials: Hands-on Lab

Issue, inspect, verify and revoke standard credentials in a sandbox.

  • Ability
  • L2 Operate
  • Practitioner
  • Standards and interoperability
  • ICB-P07
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Why this course

Open Badges 3.0 aligns badges with the W3C Verifiable Credentials model, which is the bridge to wallets. Technical staff need practice rather than slides. ICoBC already runs an Open Badges server with a sandbox, so delivery cost is low and the lab stays vendor-neutral.

What you will be able to do

  1. Issue an Open Badges 3.0 credential in a sandbox and inspect its structure.
  2. Explain how Open Badges 3.0 relates to the W3C Verifiable Credentials data model.
  3. Verify credentials, including status and expiry, with verification and conformance tools.
  4. Diagnose common interoperability errors.

Modules

  1. Data model tour
  2. Issuing in the sandbox
  3. Proofs and keys
  4. Status, expiry and revocation
  5. Verification and conformance
  6. Troubleshooting

Assessment

Lab record: issue, export, verify and revoke credentials; diagnose three faulty samples.

Badge evidence: Lab record with credential files and diagnostic answers.

Prerequisites: ICB-F01

Who it is for

  • Companies and employers
  • Education and providers
  • Associations and policy

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkSTNDskillL2levelAstage

Standards and interoperability (STND, VRITE pillar Trustworthiness)

Related skills: Platforms and integration, Security, privacy and data protection. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Hands-on lab module for HR and learning technology owners. Badge aligns to ICSF STND L2 (SFIA 3) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as skill evidence; competency on the job needs a V-series validation.

In education

Micro-credential of 8 h notional workload (about 0.3 ECTS), indicative EQF 4 to 5, assessed by assessed practical task with rubric. Stacks into pathway PW04.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 8 h (about 0.3 ECTS). Level: ICSF L2, EQF 4 to 5 (indicative). Type of assessment: assessed practical task with rubric. Form of participation: Online lab in a sandbox or test environment. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: ICB-F01.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Part of these pathways

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Trustworthiness.

AI dimension: Optional use of AI assistants to read JSON, with a warning about exposing keys.

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