Capella U Issues Digital Badges to Students in NSA Focus Area Programs
Capella University now offers digital badges for students in its National Security Agency (NSA) and Department of Homeland Security designated master's degree
programs.
The for-profit, online university has partnered with Pearson to use the company's Acclaim digital badging platform to offer NSA Focus Area digital badges to students completing master's
degrees in select information technology specializations.
Acclaim's
digital badges give students another way of validating and sharing
their academic achievements with potential employers. They can post
their digital badges on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, in email or
elsewhere online. When somebody clicks on the badge, they can see who
earned the credential, what the student accomplished and what
organization issued the badge.
"While transcripts and diplomas
are long-standing, trusted validations of student achievement, digital
badges provide employers with more detailed, transparent aggregations
of a student's earned skills," said Peter Janzow, senior director of
business development for Pearson's Acclaim digital badging platform, in
a prepared statement.
Capella University students can earn NSA Focus Area badges in the following areas:
- Digital Forensics;
- Security Incident Analysis & Response;
- Network Security Administration;
- Network Security Engineering; and
- System Security Engineering.
Capella
University has been designated by the National Security Agency (NSA)
and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of
Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense for the 2014
- 2021 academic years, according to information on the university's
site. This designation enables Capella "to offer NSA Focus Area digital
badges to students completing its master's in information assurance and
security, network defense and digital forensic specializations."
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