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CBExchange 2023 – Scaling Digital Competency Recognition: Progression Towards Mastery via Personal Evidence Records

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CBExchange 2023 - Edalex Session Progression Towards Mastery with PER - Dan McFadyen

4 October 2023

2:40 PM – 3:10 PM ET

(5 October 2023 5:40 PM – 6:10 AM AEDT)

Duration – 30 Minutes

In-Person – Omni Amelia Island Resort, FL
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Skills and competencies progress over time. We know that digital recognition of competencies can aid in making an individual’s competencies visible to the ecosystem, but how do we digitally recognise progression without baking hundreds of badges and then diluting the perceived value? 

Progression is often seen as a curriculum roadmap to support instructional planning. By using personal evidence records, aligned to skills, competencies, and frameworks (e.g. State and National Standards), we can get a just-in-time snapshot of a learner’s proficiency level via a dashboard or learner profile. Once mastery is reached (or the level of proficiency achieved) we can then ”bake” the digital badges for portability, or push the personal evidence records straight to a CLR/LER if required. Using open data standards for interoperability and scale, we can ensure the visibility of an individual’s achievements across the learn-to-earn ecosystem.

This solution has been implemented at K-12 and Higher Education in Australia, and works across all education sectors. By mapping skill and competency data at a granular level, this solution can also support flexible instruction models including credential as you go initiatives.

CBExchange 2023 - Edalex Session Progression Towards Mastery with PER - Dan McFadyen

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About the Presenter:
 

Dan McFadyen
Managing Director, Edalex

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.

Edalex Managing Director - Dan McFadyen

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Powering your single source of truth for skills and learning data

Edalex is an EdTech company powering your single source of truth for skills and learning data. 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, the world's first Credential Evidence Platform, that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills. Credentialate creates order from chaotic data, provides meaningful insight through framework alignment and equips each learner with unique, rich, industry-aligned evidence of their skills and competencies. Credentialate has continued to evolve at an accelerated pace, informed in partnership with educators and industry leaders from around the world.

openRSD was released by Edalex in 2022 to help create, store and share rich skill descriptors (RSDs) and RSD collections. openRSD uses Edalex’s open source technology stack to create locally- and globally-relevant libraries of RSDs that are open to all contributors and consumers. RSDs are the building blocks of a skills-driven labour market. They structure skills data, add context around a particular skill and are both human and machine readable. RSDs bring equity to the learner and the skills ecosystem and provide an even playing field for skills recognition.

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