Independent Microcredential Certification
Vervain Verified independently certifies microcredentials against rigorous quality standards and real-world industry relevance — so learners and employers can trust what a badge represents.
About Vervain Verified
Microcredentials are proliferating faster than the tools to evaluate them. Learners invest time and money in credentials that may not reflect real skill. Employers sift through badges of unknown quality. Institutions struggle to signal that their offerings are genuinely rigorous.
Vervain Verified exists to solve that problem. We are an independent certification body that evaluates microcredentials against a unified rubric — combining our seven core quality pillars with foundational instructional design standards and responsible AI usage guidelines.
Institutions that earn Vervain Verified certification receive a one-year verification certificate, a listing on our public registry, social media recognition, and the ability to issue Vervain Verified digital badges to their learners.
Our name is deliberate. Vervain has long been associated with protection, integrity, and the sanctity of agreements. Those values sit at the heart of what we do: every certified credential is a promise kept.
Certified Credentials & Customers
Every credential listed here has passed our full three-part rubric review — seven quality pillars, foundational instructional design standards, and responsible AI guidelines. One-year certifications are subject to annual renewal.
A Vervain Verified credential has been independently reviewed against our published rubric. Learners can be confident that the skills taught are industry-relevant, the assessments are rigorous, and the format respects their time. Employers can trust that badge holders have demonstrated genuine competency.
Institutions submit their rubric and supporting evidence for review. Our review process typically takes 2–4 weeks, after which institutions receive detailed feedback regardless of outcome.
Apply for CertificationVervain Verified is currently accepting applications for our inaugural cohort of certified microcredentials. Be among the first institutions to earn the Vervain Verified mark — contact us to begin the process.
Start Your ApplicationOur Founder
Becky Borello is an instructional technologist, adjunct professor, and the founder of Vervain Verified, LLC — a certification service she built to bring transparency and rigor to the rapidly expanding microcredential market.
With dual graduate degrees in Education and Business Administration, Becky brings a rare combination of pedagogical expertise and operational acumen to the work of credential evaluation. Her career has been rooted in higher education, where she has spent years at the intersection of instructional design, emerging technology, and faculty development.
As Assistant Director of the Office of Instructional Technology and Teaching Development at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Becky advises faculty on course design, integrates new technologies into learning environments, and stays at the leading edge of developments in AI, competency-based education, and microcredentials. That practical, day-to-day engagement with how courses are actually built — and what makes them work — informs every aspect of the Vervain Verified rubric.
Becky founded Vervain Verified because she saw a gap: a market full of microcredentials and no independent, transparent standard for evaluating them. She designed the certification framework from the ground up, grounding it in established instructional design principles, industry-relevance criteria, and forward-looking responsible AI standards.
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