Earn multiple digital micro-credential badges by completing the various data skills workshop series offered by the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) team.
Receive your digital badges immediately upon completion of badge learning assessments.
Easily share your digital badges via social media platforms, embedded code on websites, or direct links to your Badgr Backpack.
NOTE: Only current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges at this time.
How to earn GSU Data Ready! Badges...See our FAQs at the bottom of this page -- More questions? Contact Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) Team leader.
BADGES - Data Literacy! SeriesData Literacy! Series badge and workshops cover core data literacy skills with real-life examples and expose students to a variety of data tools. COMING SOON!
Data Ready! BadgeCOMING SOON!
Data Storytelling! BadgeCOMING SOON!
Data Collection! BadgeCOMING SOON!
Congratulations!Data skills are highly valued by today's employers -- "the most lucrative skill[s] to have" and "the most valuable skill[s] you can learn." By earning GSU Data Ready! Badges, you demonstrate to potential employers that you are committed to growing the data skills that they look for in hires.
Add your badges to your résumé or CV, to Portfolium (gsu.portfolium.com), or to the Licenses & Certifications section of your LinkedIn profile.
Talk about how knowing data analysis programs like R or SPSS will help you analyze data to improve the company's or organization's services.
Tell graduate programs what you learned and how you are now better prepared to be successful in their program.
BADGES - Software & Coding TrainingSoftware & Coding Training badges and workshops cover skills in quantitative & qualitative data analysis, data visualization, and data collection & discovery.
Data Discovery Ready! BadgeCOMING SOON!
Data Viz Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
GIS Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
NVivo Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Python Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
R Basics Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
R Advanced Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
SAS Ready! BadgeCOMING SOON!
SPSS Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Stata Ready! BadgeWorkshops Info | Go Earn the Badge!
Web Scraping Ready! BadgeA digital badge/micro-credential is a visual symbol of accomplishment. They can be awarded for any definable achievement and earned in many learning environments, games, or the workplace. We are using the GSU Stacks/Canvas system and the Badgr "Open Badges" system to award verifiable badges -- click here for more information about Badgr and Open Badges.
Yes. You must go to the GSU Library's Stacks course catalog and sign in with your GSU CampusID to enroll in the appropriate GSU Data Ready! Badge course:
No. Attending the data workshops and earning GSU Data Ready! Badges is FREE!
Yes. Current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. A GSU CampusID is required to sign in to enroll for the badge courses.
No. Only current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges.
Yes. GSU alumni and Non-GSU people are welcome to attend live workshops or recorded workshops.
No. We have stopped our attendance-based certification program and replaced it with this new digital badges micro-credentialing program that requires completion of quiz assessments to earn GSU Data Ready! Badges.
Each badge requires completing two or three workshops, typically totaling about 5 to 7.5 hours of time commitment for the workshop itself. The number of total quiz questions to earn a badge typically range between 10 to 15 (roughly 5 questions per workshop) and are a mix of multiple choice, true/false, or matching. Once you score 100% on all the badge module's quizzes, you'll automatically receive your badge from the Badgr system.
No. Only workshops in which a methodology and/or a software application is taught and that involve learning specific data/methods skills count toward the badges; Data in the ATL talks and Data Empowered Events do not meet these specific outcomes.
Yes. We know it looks suspicious, but currently we have no way to change the automated Badgr email so that the From: name does not say Default Frontend Config. Rest assured, the email from the badgr.com site is safe to open, whether it goes directly to your GSU email Inbox, into the Junk folder, or into spam quarantine.
No, but recommended. While not required to receive badges, we recommend creating a Badgr account so you can take advantage of Badgr's Backpack feature for easily sharing your digital badges with others.
No. The GSU Data Ready! Badges do not expire. Your badge will have the issue date on it to indicate when you received the badge.
Yes. Every badge page indicates that it's been verified, provides a Re-verify Badge button to verify on the spot, and includes an Independently Verify Badge link to Open Badges 2.0 Validator to validate the badge and verify the recipient.
Yes, please do! Students can attend live workshops or recorded workshops on their own time, go to the GSU Library's Stacks course catalog to enroll in the appropriate GSU Data Ready! Badge course, and complete our quiz learning assessments to earn badges. Once students receive a badge, have them share it with you for verification by either (1) having them forward their Badgr email notification, or (2) having them create a Badgr account to then send you a link to their badge in their Badgr Backpack. It's that easy!
No. Only GSU course instructors can assign GSU Data Ready! Badges for required or extra credit because only current GSU affiliates (students, faculty, and staff) can earn the GSU Data Ready! Badges. Non-GSU students are welcome to attend live workshops or recorded workshops, and Non-GSU instructors are welcome to assign workshops and create their own approach for having students verify workshop attendance. NOTE: We cannot track attendance for you.
No. Only workshops in which a methodology and/or a software application is taught and that involve learning specific data/methods skills count toward the badges; Data in the ATL talks and Data Empowered Events do not meet these specific outcomes.
Contact Dr. Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) Team leader.
