Can I ask - are you bothered about anything more than an emailed pdf certificate?
Would it add to your experience to have a Credly & OpenBadge (or alternative) certificate?
Would it be valuable to have a physical certificate posted to you?
pdf for me.
I'd find an electronic copy more convenient. If I ever had to prove I'd done the training, I'd only end up scanning a paper copy. So a soft copy is ideal.
I need pdf copies to load up to my cpd section on the institutions website as proof I’m up to date. I get pdfs from the institution form webinars which I then load up on their website...
No need for anything fancy, paper copy not necessary or wanted, personally (I guess you could always print out the pdf ifn yer wanted...).
Classic STW answer for me "it depends" 🙂
Degree certificates and professional memberships (i.e. letters after your name) I value nicely embossed heavy paper.
Site-related qualifications where you need to regularly show random people you hold something, I'll take a nice waterproof credit card type ID (NPTC, CSCS etc).
An online course for half a day saying I attended, yep all good with a PDF on email. Anything more would increase the risk of me losing it.
What OwenP said.
PDF for all my CPD.
Thanks Owen - you've made a good point.
A mixture of stand alone 2-12 hr online courses, 2-8 hour face to face courses for the email pdf.
For our longer courses and higher level, its a nice embossed printed certificate.
I've just got to make a decision tomorrow about any additional functionality or e-signed badge system.
That Linkedin thing where you get to brag about your qualification automatically.
It creates a post saying OTS is proud to announce that he's passed Grade 3 colouring in.
I'll try and find an example.
Edit - this sort of thing
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Yeah that makes sense Matt - for shorter courses, I've not really been aware of the "badge" systems. Either that's because the sector I work in doesn't use them very widely (Environmental - ecology), or quite possibly they have been used and I just haven't noticed.
I guess I can see a role for the badge type system if you have lots of short courses that together add up towards a larger set of skills. But I suppose you'd need to go all in across all the courses for that to work, plus raise awareness of the value of the "badges" for people like me who don't pay attention properly!
I personally do not want the waste of paper that a printed certificate is
