Experience more learning—earn badges
An Experience More Badge provides guided support on how to reflect on your experiences at TRU and how to translate these into skills for your post-graduation planning.
Experience More encourages you to know yourself, explore challenges, focus on personal and professional growth, plan and act on opportunities and, finally, reflect on what you’ve learned.
Why Apply for an Experience More Badge?
- Formalize the learning and experience you have gained through your experiences at TRU
- Prove your abilities to employers
- Help future-proof your career by verifying work-based skills gained
- Reflect on how to continue to develop your skill sets based on labour market needs
How Experience More Badges work
Experience More Badges are organized through Moodle courses and Moodle’s badging app. Once achieved, students can post their Experience More Badge on professional social media profiles, like LinkedIn. The badges are not intended to represent qualifications. Rather they are about students proving the skills and knowledge applicable for each badge.
The student designs a professional learning/career reflective portfolio that uses reflection to address individualized learning goals. Using the TRU Moodle platform students will upload evidence for review in the sections provided. The goal is to help students understand that reflection aids in the building of personal resiliency to achieve personal and professional goals. Each badge will assist students on how to articulate career goals and related skills gained through co-curricular and out of classroom experiences.
Goal setting combined with a badging system can strengthen learning experiences and “facilitate the achievement of learner’s intrinsic learning motivation” (Cheng, Watson, Newby, 2018). Students are offered a variety of lifelong learning options to make choices for which experiences would be relevant to their interests and career aspirations. The badge itself is just a symbol, a graphical representation of the evidence provided.
The actual power of a badge is the metadata buried within the badge. Students are encouraged to link their badges to an online format that explains to the reader how a badge was gained and the workplace skills each badge represents.
Contact Larry Iles, Experiential Learning Coordinator for more information on this initiative.
Experience More Badges
Future Skills Badge
The Future Skills badge has been designed for students completing a work integrated experience such as a coop work term, a practica, clinical placement or an Experience More project. Students will be able to use the future skills Badge to identify development opportunities that will best aid them in achieving progress towards their professional goals and meeting their learning needs.
Examples of workplace skills associated with the Future Skills Badge
- Ability to acquire future competencies
- Make plans to achieve learning goals
- Manage work within multiple time zones
- Seek learning opportunities
- Goal setting and Goal Attainment
- Adoption of new technologies
- Judgement
- Social and cultural perceptiveness
- Monitoring
- Complex problem solving
- Active listening
- Attainment of new workplace technologies
Teamwork Badge
The purpose of the TRU Teamwork Experience More Career Badge is to recognize and validate students' ability to work effectively in team environments. This badge is awarded to students who demonstrate essential teamwork skills, such as collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and leadership within group settings. The badge not only serves as a formal acknowledgment of these skills but also enhances students' employability by providing them with a tangible credential that showcases their readiness to contribute positively to team-oriented roles in the workplace.
Examples of workplace skills associated with the Teamwork Badge
- Stakeholder communication
- Team communication
- Working cooperatively with a variety of people and communities
- Lobbying key decision makers
- Decision making
- Adaptability
Leadership Badge
The purpose of the TRU Leadership Experience More Career Badge is to acknowledge and recognize students who have demonstrated leadership skills in various settings. This badge is awarded to students who exhibit qualities such as initiative, decision-making, responsibility, and the ability to inspire and guide others toward achieving common goals. By earning this badge, students can showcase their leadership abilities to potential employers, highlighting their readiness to take on leadership roles and contribute positively to organizational success.
Examples of workplace skills associated with the Leadership Badge
- Leadership for a significant initiative or projectn
- Development of a new initiative or project
- Encouragement of teamwork and collaboration
- Identification of barriers that prevent people working together
- Proactive involvement in conflict resolution
- Responsibility for planning and promoting team cooperation
