Edalex announces key appointment

Edalex announces key appointment

Edalex is thrilled to announce the appointment of Margo Griffith to the role of Head of Business Development. Margo will focus on Credentialate, our micro-credentialing management platform.

Margo brings years of experience in Sales, Sales Management, Account Management and Business Development to Edalex.She is passionate about the positive impact of technology within education and the enablement of lifelong learning and agility. Margo has extensive experience and knowledge in the field of micro-credentials, evidence-based insight and the potential for edtech to make a positive impact on learners’ lives.

Margo has worked across a diverse range of businesses, with nearly all of them in the Education sector. She has led the Australasian sales teams for major global companies such as John Wiley and Sons and McGraw-Hill, in addition to having national and international business development roles within Cengage, Reed-Elsevier and OpenLearning, as well as start-up/scale up businesses in biometrics and EdTech.

Margo also has a long-standing connection with Credentialate, having previously partnered with Edalex on a research project at UNSW Sydney that helped inspire the creation and vision for the platform.

To learn more about Credentialate, please contact Margo at margo.griffith[at]edalex.com.

About Edalex

Powering your single source of truth for skills and learning data

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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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