Business Skills Badges

The specific skills are based on the American Association of Colleges and Universities, a global organization that is a catalyst and facilitator for innovations that improve educational quality and equity and that support the success of all students.

These badges are open to any Graduate School of Business students enrolled in the Master of Business Administration, Master of Science, or Advanced Certificate programs.

Digital Badges

A digital badge is a graphic verification of the skills you have mastered after successfully completing some form of professional learning or an experience in which you have participated. A digital badge is an icon, but it is not a static image. It is clickable and houses information such as the issuing institution, the date earned, the criteria required to earn the badge, and the evidence that shows that you have met the required criteria. Digital badges are a great way to share your professional learning achievements and new competencies with employers, colleagues, friends, and family via social platforms such as LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, or through an open backpack.

Critical Thinking

To earn this badge students demonstrate a great capacity to form habits of inquiry and analysis as successful critical thinkers. Students have completed assignments that require analyses of text, data, or issues. Critical thinking is a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.

Ethical Reasoning

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a growth in their Ethical Self Identity and the ability to evolve as they practice ethical decision-making skills and learn how to describe and analyze positions on ethical issues. Presumably, they will choose ethical actions when faced with ethical issues. Ethical Reasoning is reasoning about right and wrong human conduct. It requires students to be able to assess their own ethical values and the social context of problems, recognize ethical issues in a variety of settings, think about how different ethical perspectives might be applied to ethical dilemmas and consider the ramifications of alternative actions. Students’ ethical self-identity evolves as they practice ethical decision-making skills and learn how to describe and analyze positions on ethical issues.

Intercultural Knowledge

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great ability to meaningfully engage others, to place social justice in historical and political context, and to put culture at the core of transformative learning. Intercultural Knowledge and Competence is a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.

Lifelong Learning

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great ability to assess the skills and dispositions involved in lifelong learning, which are curiosity, transfer, independence, initiative, and reflection. Students have incorporated their lifelong learning skills into their work by applying these skills. Lifelong learning is learning on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competence.

Oral Presentation

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great capacity to form complete live presentations of sufficient length such that a central message is conveyed, supported, and includes a purposeful organization. Communication as the effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through oral and visual communication. Oral communication is a prepared, purposeful presentation designed to increase knowledge, foster understanding, or promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.

Problem Solving

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great capacity to form to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.

Quantitative Literacy

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great capacity to manipulate and analyze numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions. Students have demonstrated a strong "habit of mind" and competency and comfort in working with numerical data. Individuals with strong quantitative literacy possess the ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations. They understand and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and clearly communicate those arguments in various formats.

Teamwork

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great capacity toward appropriate behaviors as an individual team member. Teamwork includes effort put into team tasks, appropriately interacting with others on a team, and contributing quantity and quality to team discussions.

Writing

To earn this badge students will demonstrate a great capacity to clearly develop and express ideas through writing. Written communication involves learning to work in many genres and styles. Students that have earned this badge have worked with many different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images. These written communication abilities developed through iterative experiences across the curriculum.

Contact

To learn more, contact Victor Izquierdo at vizquier@touro.edu.