Ex Machina Italia offers this complete Open Badge service for Universities and Companies
What are Open Badges
Open Badges are verifiable digital credentials that certify skills, educational achievements or professional milestones reached by an individual. Unlike traditional paper certificates, Open Badges contain structured metadata that describes:
The acquired competencies
The achievement criteria
The issuing organization
The issue date
Evidence of achievement
These badges follow international standards (Open Badges 2.0/3.0) and can be easily shared on LinkedIn, digital CVs, professional portfolios and industry platforms, ensuring immediate verifiability and global recognition.
Application Contexts
Higher Education
Open Badges find application in multiple academic contexts:
- Certification of transversal competencies (soft skills, digital competencies, languages)
- Recognition of extracurricular activities (volunteering, projects, workshops)
- Micro-credentials for short courses, MOOCs and continuing education
- Modular learning pathways with progressive certification
- International mobility and credit recognition between institutions
- Employability to facilitate entry into the job market
Corporate Environment
In the corporate world, Open Badges support:
- Personnel training and development with competency tracking
- Professional certifications and sector-specific qualifications
- Compliance and mandatory training (safety, privacy, regulations)
- Upskilling and reskilling programs
- Talent management and internal competency mapping
- Employer branding and professional growth valorization
- Recognition of corporate achievements and awards
Ex Machina Italia’s Integrated Service
Ex Machina Italia offers a complete end-to-end service for implementing digital credential systems, supporting clients through every phase of the project:
1. Consulting and Platform Selection
We support you in choosing the badge issuance platform best suited to your needs, considering:
- Volume of users and badges to manage
- Integration requirements with existing systems
- Available budget
- Specific required features (blockchain, analytics, customization)
As authorized distributors of several leading market platforms, we include the necessary licenses in our offer for those who don’t already have a solution.
In particular, our international partnership with OBF (Open Badge Factory)
2. Badge Design and Development (Competence-Driven Pattern)
The heart of our service is the accurate design of badges following the competence-driven model, which places actually acquired competencies at the center. We work with you to:
- Map existing training projects against competency objectives
- Define coherent and measurable competency taxonomies
- tructure learning pathways with progressive badges
- Align badges with international standards to ensure recognizability
- Create professional graphic templates consistent with brand identity
- Draft clear, objective and verifiable achievement criteria
Particular attention is dedicated to competency descriptions, ensuring that each badge truly represents a verifiable added value for the earner.
3. Integration with Existing Systems: Digital Credential Manager (DCM)
DCM is our middleware solution that automates the assignment of digital credentials, integrating seamlessly with the organization’s existing systems. Many organizations already have systems that record data related to the achievement of titles, certifications or completion of training paths:
- SIS (Student Information System) in higher education
- LMS (Learning Management System) for online training
- HR platforms and personnel management systems
- Internal databases of certifications and qualifications
Without DCM, badge assignment would require:
– Manual extraction of people lists
– Manual upload to the badge platform
– Risk of attribution errors
– Redundant management of personal data
– Long times and operational inefficiencies
How DCM Works
DCM is an interoperability middleware solution between user management systems and systems for creating and assigning digital credentials. The application offers a simple web interface in SaaS mode for exclusive use by the administrator. End users don’t need to do anything: they have no additional system to learn beyond the Open Badge platform chosen by their organization.
- Outcomes: Allows definition of which measurable results the third-party system must communicate to DCM to trigger the badge and token assignment process.
- Rules: These are the rules through which DCM manages the assignment of digital credentials or tokens. Rules can be complex combinations of outcomes in AND/OR logic (example: Leadership Badge is assigned when the user completes course A AND passes exam B AND participates in activity C).
- Monitor: Allows monitoring, for each recipient, which Outcomes and Badges they have obtained, providing a complete and traceable view.
DCM provides standard APIs for:
- Outcomes Reception: receives data from the Issuer’s legacy system
- Badge Assignment: interfaces with the digital credential application for automatic assignment
- Assignment Receipt: retrieves the completed badge assignment from the digital credential system and communicates it to the Issuer’s legacy system
DCM Advantages
- Complete automation of the assignment process
- Elimination of manual attribution errors
- Faster release times
- Greater security in personal data management
- Scalability to handle large volumes of assignments
- Complete traceability of the process
4. Assignment Rules Mapping
We collaborate with your team to:
- Analyze existing training flows and identify trigger points for assignment
- Define measurable outcomes to track in the source system
- Configure assignment rules even complex ones (combinations of courses, assessments, timings)
- est flows before go-live
- Document implemented logic for future maintenance
5. Technical Implementation and Go-Live
Our technical team:
- Develops necessary integrations via API
- Configures DCM according to defined specifications
- Performs thorough testing on staging environment
- Trains internal team on platform usage
- Supports go-live with dedicated assistance
- Monitors the first weeks of operation
6. Ongoing Support and Evolution
We offer:
Technical assistance to resolve any issues
Strategic consulting for badge system evolution
Updates on regulatory and technological innovations
Continuous training for new administrators
Reporting and analytics on badge usage
What the Offer Includes
With the purchase of the complete service, the organization will have:
1. Specialized consulting for badge and competency design
2. Open Badge Platform (licenses included if not already available, example OBF)
3. DCM (Digital Credential Manager) in SaaS mode
4. Technical integration with existing systems
5. Training for administrative team
6. Go-live support and ongoing assistance
Why Choose Ex Machina Italia
- Proven experience in digital credential projects for universities and companies
- Competence-driven approach based on international standards
- Proprietary technological solution (DCM) for automation
- Partnerships with leading market platforms
- Multidisciplinary team (pedagogists, technologists, project managers)
- End-to-end support from design to operations
Transform your organization’s competencies into verifiable digital recognitions, automating processes and valorizing the growth paths of students, employees and professionals.
Contact us for personalized consulting on your digital credentials project: info@exmitalia.it
