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Today's employers seek professionals with specialized skills to help their organizations grow and innovate. Earning a University of Nebraska–Lincoln digital badge lets you gain these in-demand skills quickly, helping you stand out in a competitive job market. Our high-quality, non-credit badges offer targeted learning in specific skill areas, making it possible to enhance your career without the time commitment of a full degree program. Whether you are looking to advance your skills, change your career trajectory, or enhance your knowledge, UNL's digital badges are your key to personal and professional growth.

What is a Digital Badge?

A digital badge is a verified, online credential that showcases your expertise in a specialized area, allowing you to display your accomplishments to employers, colleagues, and your professional network. At UNL, coursework to otain a digital badge may be online, hybrid, or in-person. Be sure to read the course description for the method of delivery.

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Nebraska Innovation Studio  College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources  Nebraska Extension  Center on Children, Families and the Law


 

Nebraska Innovation Studio

Collaborative Robot Welding

Explore robotic welding, automating your way through unique hands-on challenges with precision and efficiency.

Robotic welding is more in-demand than ever, with The American Welding Society predicting a job gap of 336,000 welders needed by 2026. This course familiarizes student of all skill levels with Vectis Automation’s Collaborative Robot Welding Cell, covering efficient welding task planning, designing fixtures, managing labor resources, ensuring high-quality welds, and culminating in a practical project where participants complete real-world welding tasks with zero human intervention.

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Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

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Hygienic Design in Food Manufacturing

Food Science and Technology, The Food Processing Center

The Hygienic Design in Food Manufacturing badge program will be an eight-week training delivered via seven self-paced modules, including virtual synchronous Q&A sessions. This training is focused on enhancing participants’ understanding of the role hygienic design plays in ensuring food safety, as well as ensuring that participants understand how to effectively assess risks and apply design standards in their workplaces.

Two food manufacturing workers cleaning work area

Bacteria as Friends and Foes

Food Science and Technology, The Food Processing Center

This digital badge is an online platform that will immerse learners in the wonderful world of bacteria and the overall discipline of bacteriology. Leaners will learn that bacteria are very different from us but follow the general principles of life like other organisms. Bacteria have evolved incredible strategies to thrive and survive in many different environments including non-living surfaces, and other living organisms. In this course, you will appreciate how bacteria can exhibit distinct lifestyles. Lessons include general concepts that are shared among groups on bacteria as well as explorations into detail strategies that particular groups of bacteria use to adapt to distinct environments.

Microbes

Nebraska Extension

Fit & Healthy Kids: Yogapalooza: Learning Strategies to Immediately Incorporate Yoga and Mindfulness into Your Early Childhood Classroom

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Bari Koral is a nationally recognized kids yoga educator and recording artist for children.

You’ll master many simple but powerful mindfulness tools, learn some child friendly yoga poses and understand the great benefits and physiology of yoga and mindfulness.

Fit and Healthy Kids YogaPalooza with Bari Koral

Fit and Healthy Kids: Yoga for Young Children's Health and Well-Being

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Children's yoga during early childhood can play an important role in helping young children learn self-regulation strategies, enhance their health, and can make learning fun. Is your mind full or worries and thoughts that cause you stress? Learn the benefits of mindfulness and how mindfulness can positively impact your wellbeing and support you being more present in the moment.

Children doing yoga

Fit and Healthy Kids: Tinkering with STEM

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 Tinkering helps children to understand you have to fail a few times, sometimes many times, in order to get the right answer. It is a safe way for children to go through the process of trial and error-which is an experience that children need, to develop the kind to higher-order thinking skills necessary in our rapidly changing world.

Children stacking blocks

Fit and Healthy Kids: The Importance of Sleep

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The presentation will discuss what is known from research studies about how the amount of sleep and the quality of sleep influences behaviors in children, youth, and parents.
 

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Fit and Healthy Kids: Whole Grains for Health-Organic, Stoneground, Multigrain, Oh My!

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What do all of those words on food packages mean? How do I tell if a food is a whole grain? Join us to answer these mysterious questions and more! Learn about the many benefits of whole grains along with ideas for preparing and serving whole grain foods children will love. 

Wheat grains on a table

Fit and Healthy Kids: One Norovirus, with a side of Salmonella, Please! Preparing Food Safety in Child Care Facilities

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Safe storing, preparing, and serving of foods is just as important in childcare programs as serving a balanced diet. Many children and adults get sick from eating foods that are not properly handles or when food safety guidelines are not being followed. 

Food thermometer

Fit and Healthy Kids: Strategies for Young Children with Autism in Childcare Settings

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The presentation provides learners with a brief overview of autism spectrum disorder. 
 

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Fit and Healthy Kids: Introduction to Autism in Childcare Settings

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   This presentation provides learners with an introduction to autism spectrum disorder. 

Child sitting on the floor

Fit and Healthy Kids: Mind Full or Mindful-Who are You?

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Is your mind full of worries and thoughts that cause you stress? Learn the benefits of mindfulness and how mindfulness can positively impact your wellbeing and support you being more present in the moment.

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Fit and Healthy Kids: Music from the Heart

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Music is a natural part of a child's everyday life. Not only does it help them develop language and social skills but forms a part of their play time. This training will explore music of the home-from play to sleep. Songs will include lullabies, outside play songs, songs on a rainy day and much more. 

Music book with red heart resting on the page

Fit and Healthy Kids: Caregiver-Child Math Engagement Adds Up

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 This session will provide information on the importance of math development for young children. Participants will learn strategies for integrating math into children's routines, as well as fun and engaging games and activities that involve math concepts. 

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Fit and Healthy Kids: Blocks BUILDing Math Talk in Early Childhood Setting

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Engaging in block play provides a vast array of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical (STEM) concepts. This training is designed to aid participants in designing environments that promote STEM thinking through block play.

Colored wooden blocks stacked together on table

Fit and Healthy Kids: Beyond Challenging Behaviors

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Learn the meaning behind behaviors and supporting early childhood mental health. Join us to explore challenging behaviors, warning signs, beneficial resources, and the importance of your role in the childcare environment. Learn about the importance of building partnerships with families and how to bring your concerns forward to parents. 

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Center on Children, Families, and the Law

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Whether you are looking to advance your skills, change your career trajectory, or enhance your knowledge, UNL's digital badges are your key to personal and professional growth.

Tuition benefits through the University of Nebraska Employee and Dependent Scholarship Program cannot be applied to micro-credential courses.