Digital foundations
Working in a Digital World: Essential Skills – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish
Duration: 8+ hours
Essential skills represent the industry knowledge and modern ways of working that professionals need to be successful in a digital innovation economy. This badge earner knows how to use and apply agile and design thinking methodologies and practices, and is aware of the key technologies that power today’s jobs, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data and analytics, blockchain, and security.
Role-based
Introduction to Web Development – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese
This badge earner has developed an understanding of web development concepts and practices and how they can be applied in the workplace. The individual has an understanding of problem-solving skills required to be successful in a web developer role, how the web works, and foundational concepts and key tools and technologies to build websites. Badge earners can use these skills as a foundation for further study in web development.
Web Developer Foundations – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese
This badge earner is able to demonstrate a foundational understanding of front-end web development concepts, principles, and practices. This individual has also demonstrated an understanding of how to use programming languages and frameworks, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, to create web applications. Badge earners can use these skills to pursue and advance their career as a web developer.
Full Stack Web Developer – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese
This badge earner demonstrates an intermediate-level understanding of full stack web development. The individual can build interactive web applications in HTML and CSS, work with JavaScript to perform basic logic and algorithmic tasks, and build a full-stack application using React, Node, Python, and SQL. The individual also knows how to build APIs that interact with an SQL or MongoDB database. Badge earners can use these skills to pursue and advance their career as a full stack web developer.
Introduction to Data Analysis – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English
Duration: 12 hours
This badge earner demonstrates a foundational understanding of data analysis concepts and processes. This includes knowledge about types of data, big data, databases, the data lifecycle, methods to visualize data, applications of data in business, and common data analytics and visualization tools in the industry. This also includes understanding the role and responsibilities of a data analyst. Badge earners can use this knowledge to pursue further education.
IBM Z System Administrator: Practitioner – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English
Duration: 200+ hours
This badge earner understands enterprise computing concepts, hardware components, I/O architecture, the basics of REXX and JCL, and associated software and system components. They can perform basic system programming on IBM Z as well as perform upgrades and maintenance on the z/OS operating system. Badge earners can use this knowledge to pursue further education, internships, or apprenticeships.
Project-based
SkillsBuild Innovation Camp – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English
This badge earner has experienced and gained skills working as part of a diverse team, focusing on solving a real-world challenge and delivering a pitch, all while using agile work methods and design-thinking techniques. The earner has learned strategic methods to craft a problem statement, ideate, solve complex problems quickly, design an innovative user experience, and tell compelling stories.
Security Consultant Capstone – Retired
Audience: Learners working with an NPO
Languages: English
Duration: 15 hours
This badge earner applies critical thinking, problem solving, and presentation skills to a simulated client security assessment engagement, developed by IBM experts. The badge earner experiences and gains skills working independently, seeks expertise, solves a real-world challenge, reviews and assesses new information, structures a point of view given a client’s situation, and delivers a presentation with recommendations.
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