There are a lot of really successful digital credentialing programs that have been developed by education institutions, employers, and organizations over the past several years. What stands out about these successful programs is their ability to satisfy the goal of being in service of something legitimately important and valuable to stakeholders. Unfortunately, we have also seen a number of digital credentialing programs that could only be described as "disappointing".

But let's focus on what makes a digital credentialing program successful. In our experience here at Digital Badge Academy, successful programs share a common set of characteristics and program elements.

In this webcast with Jim Daniels and David Leaser, co-founders of Digital Badge Academy, we've extracted those elements and created a succinct list of the top 25 considerations for designing, building, launching, and managing a successful digital credentialing program.