ABOUT US
Founded in 2016, Edalex develops technology solutions that extract hidden value from educational data to make it accessible and more meaningful.
Edalex brings together the team behind the CODiE award winning openEQUELLA open source platform that centrally houses teaching and learning, research, media and library content.
In 2019, Edalex launched Credentialate – a Credential Evidence Platform that increases the power and meaning of digital badges and the ability to analyse performance against learning outcomes like never before.
openRSD was released by Edalex in 2022 to help create, store and share rich skill descriptors (RSDs) and RSD collections. Create local or global libraries of RSDs, open to all contributors and consumers,. RSDs bring equity to the learner and the skills ecosystem and create an even playing field for skills recognition.
Edalex Awards & Nominations
Our mission
To surface learning outcomes, digital assets and the power of individual achievement
- Get more from your existing educational data
We surface what you already have, make it accessible, usable and more meaningful
- Award-winning educational technology team
We leverage the 150-year combined experience of our team to create innovative, differentiated solutions
- Innovation rooted in understanding
We create unique technologies that service the needs of multiple stakeholders across the education spectrum
- Customers are at the core of everything we do
We strive to establish the most effective partnerships in education – it’s one of our core values. Beyond just words, we live this everyday
Our management team
Dan McFadyen
Managing Director & Co-Founder
For the past 20+ years, Dan has focused on enabling innovation in education powered by educational technology and long-term partnerships with educational institutions. This passion fuelled varied roles from a start-up developing the CODiE award-winning EQUELLA software to global educational powerhouses Blackboard and Pearson.
Since 2016 Dan has served as the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Edalex, tackling skills- and employability-related challenges by supporting the definition, development and recognition of skills through education. On a personal level, as a dual American-Australian citizen, he struggles daily with the conflict between raising his two children on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or vegemite.
Alistair Oliver
Director & Co-Founder
For the past 17+ years, Al has engaged with senior leaders across all education sectors to assist them in defining suitable educational technology solutions to meet their varying needs. With a career spanning executive leadership roles, marketing, business development, and account management, Al led the team that established the EQUELLA brand and was heavily involved in its entry into the global education market, through to its acquisition by Pearson. Al has fostered strong relationships with customers across the globe. Al relies on the support of his wife and two children to ease the pain of being a die-hard St. Kilda Saints supporter.
Margo Griffith
Head of Business Development
Margo’s in-depth knowledge and experience of skills, the skills ecosystem and digital credentials is the result of working in and with higher education providers and edtech leaders, nationally and internationally for over 20 years. She is passionate about the positive impact of technology within education and the enablement of lifelong learning and mobility. Margo co-convenes a Cross Sector Community of practice around Microcredentials in Australia and sits on the Executive of the International Council of Badges and Credentials (ICoBC) . She writes blog posts around challenges surrounding the learn to earn journey. Margo is currently exploring Systems Thinking concepts and their relation to the emerging skills ecosystem.
Karen Hatwell
Finance Manager
Originally from New Zealand, Karen possesses over 20 years experience in the accounting arena in both New Zealand and Australia. Karen has worked with a wide range of clients in multiple industries with companies of all shapes and sizes. For the last five years, Karen has expertly handled all aspects of the EQUELLA finances. She successfully managed the Hobart office and with her eagle eye for detail, was relied upon for accuracy, her strong accounting skills and for pulling reluctant rabbits out of hats. When Karen isn’t crunching numbers she will be at the theatre, or enjoying coffee with friends, or training for the Point to Pinnacle.
We live and breathe our values
All hands on deck
Teamwork is at our core and is a key ingredient to our ongoing success as a growing company – internally and externally. We engage closely with our partners long-term to collaborate and co-create
Two steps ahead
Anticipating opportunities and risks enable us to exceed expectations and develop innovative, dynamic and scalable EdTech platforms that are truly differentiated
Build trust
Trust and respect go hand-in-hand, and it’s built over time through our actions. We strive to establish the most effective partnerships in education and deliver multi-layered win-win solutions
Get up and dance!
Life’s too short to not have some fun along the way! You don’t have to be a good dancer (we’re not!) to be up for a fun adventure
Work at Edalex
Learn more about working at Edalex – our culture, our employee perks and our people.
Browse through our open positions and apply – come join us!