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How Certify Enabled an Online Learning Platform for Teachers to Implement an Industry Leading Digital Badge Program
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Project TYPE
Online Learning
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Client
Anspear
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country
United Kingdom

The Organisation

Anspear is a UK-based educational technology and publishing company. Its mobile learning technology powers teacher training programs, TA development, distance learning diplomas and bespoke learning programs, school staff development programs, teacher training and curriculum learning. Anspear partners use Anspear Learn to deliver distance learning courses, vocational training and more. They help teachers across the UK access flexible, easy-to-access and affordable learning.

Anspear’s platform stands out for its mobile-friendly design, consistent and interactive experience and wide range of automatically marked assessments. It also offers powerful usage analytics to help teachers, tutors and managers measure the impact of their learning programs.

Challenges

With their previous digital badge provider, Anspear were frustrated with the pricing model and the lack of personalisation and support. They also found the experience for recipients to be too complicated.

Anspear wanted to provide more visible digital badges and certificates to teachers and trainees, as well as increase brand visibility through social sharing. Having a fully automated digital badge platform that seamlessly integrated into its existing technology stack via Certify’s API was also a top priority.

Solution

After selecting Certify as its digital badge provider, Anspear was able to easily create all the necessary automations via API to securely issue digital badges and make them available to awardees on its mobile learning app in a matter of days.

Anspear also successfully migrated over 40,000 existing badge awardees from its previous digital badge provider to Certify.

“We chose Certify for a number of reasons, one of which was their API documentation. We looked at Open Badges and Credly, but Certify had a simple API and a responsive team. When building an integration, having a human being on the other end to help makes all the difference. We also had the opportunity to work with them to extend the API to our needs, which was incredibly valuable. Our development team was able to read the API documentation and integrate without any back and forth that could easily have taken weeks.” - Charlie Pearson, Anspear.

Results

Anspear achieved a 50% open rate, which is impressive for an industry where digital badge adoption has been slower than others. Anspear expects to issue at least 100,000 digital badges over the next 12 months and expects to see an increase in open and engagement rates as awareness of the recipient grows.

Anspear courses are now firmly embedded in many teacher training courses in schools and their trainees are earning hundreds of credentials every day. The badges help to keep them motivated and the PDF certificates are really important evidence on their training profile.

"Over time we are constantly finding new features that Certify adds to their platform that make it even easier to create, issue and manage our badges and certificates. The customer support is exceptional, Certify are always on hand to help us with any changes or issues we have" - ​​Charlie Pearson, Anspear.

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