The IACET Open Digital Badging Guidelines seeks to provide directions and recommendation to issuers of digital credential who wish to issue high-quality digital badges. IACET, as an ANSI Standards Development Organization, and as an accreditation agency plans to use this document, created by the Open Digital Badging taskforce, as a springboard to develop a full-fledged Open Digital Badging Standard and accreditation program. This program will allow education providers who want to stand out as world-class issuers of digital badges will be able to earn a designation of Accredited Digital Badge Issuer from IACET.
Organizations who began to follow the specifications in this guideline will position themselves to be able to go through the forthcoming accreditation program.