Badge Coach
By completing the Badge Coach training, you will benefit by earning a verified digital credential that certifies you to facilitate marketable skills micro-courses that award digital badges. These micro-learning experiences provide an opportunity for learners to address workforce skills gaps or elevate their professional skills quickly.
About Badge CoachIn this fully online learning experience, you will practice the skills needed to facilitate standalone marketable skills micro-courses, including:
A credentialed Alamo Colleges’ Badge Coach facilitates the course, grades submissions, provides feedback, and assesses the demonstration of sub-competencies. After completing this approximately three-hour asynchronous training, you will be awarded a digital badge called Badge Coach. After earning the digital badge, you will be able to share it and show that you are credentialed to facilitate marketable skills micro-courses at Alamo Colleges. The badge is shareable on social media sites, resumes, e-portfolios, and more. Each earned badge belongs to the earner and is stored in their virtual backpack hosted by Badgr, the digital badging platform of the Alamo Colleges District. |
Why Marketable Skills TrainingAlamo Colleges District is committed to ensuring students and workers have the marketable and professional skills needed to increase social mobility and position them for greater competitiveness in the job market.
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Badge Coach Frequently Asked Questions
Badge Coach is a credential to facilitate pre-designed, non-credit micro-courses that award marketable skills badges. A Badge Coach’s role as a facilitator is to answer participants' questions, assess students' work, and award digital badges.
Our non-credit marketable skills micro-courses are fully online, on-demand, and facilitated by a Badge Coach. These micro-learning experiences take ten or fewer hours to complete and can be completed at the learner’s own pace. Participants who successfully demonstrate the marketable skill earn a digital badge.
A digital badge is a symbol of achievement that demonstrates newly developed or enhanced skills to potential employers. Digital badges are shareable on social media sites, resumes, portfolios, and more and belong to the earner. To learn more, read The importance of digital badges.
Our skills bundle includes the following marketable skills: Career Management, Collaboration, Oral Communication, Professionalism/Work Ethic, Resilience, and Written Communication. To learn, more visit alamo.edu/upskill/marketable-skills.
The Badge Coach training is a professional development opportunity that results in a micro-credential. Compensation is not offered for participating in the training, but Badge Coaches are paid to facilitate the marketable skills micro-courses.
The Badge Coach training takes approximately three to five hours to complete.
The Badge Coach training is fully online and asynchronous.