21st century skills

Edalex announces Credentialate Alliance research results – 76% of learners more confident in expressing skills

February 24, 2023

Edalex, the EdTech company powering your single source of truth for skills and learning data, is thrilled to release the results of their Edalex Credentialate Alliance research project and share key findings, outcomes and future implications – including that 76% of learners are more confident speaking about their skills after receiving a personal evidence record

Strategies to Increase the Velocity and Volume of Learners’ Skills

December 5, 2022

Skills-based learning has developed beyond a conversation and has become the focus of many learning institutions from higher education to community colleges, career-specific educators, internal company training, and more. Why?

WEBINAR RECORDING: Stackable Micro-Credentials – Industry Perspective

November 24, 2022

12 October 2022 Duration – 90 Minutes 11:00am – 12:30 (KSA) On 12 October 2022, Edalex took part in the NeLC webinar series on the topic of “Stackable Micro-Credentials: Industry Perspective”. Watch the webinar recording below. In the second part of this webinar series, the panelists examine the dynamic state of the skills movement, the move towards skills-based hiring and skills-based learning and the requirement from a business perspective that need to be in a place to facilitate this change. They also address the need to consider the unlying technology stack to ensure both human and machine visibility at scale via open linked data standards

WEBINAR RECORDING: Stackable Micro-Credentials in K-12 and Higher Education

November 24, 2022

5 October 2022 Duration – 90 Minutes 11:00am – 12:30 (KSA) On 5 October 2022, Edalex took part in the NeLC webinar series on the topic of “Stackable Micro-Credentials in K-12 and Higher Education”. This webinar offer an international context around stackable micro-credentials from Secondary High School, Higher Education, and technology enablement perspectives. The panelists have had significant experience in setting micro-credentialing strategy both across an institution and across educational sectors. They also have operational experience in the implementation of those micro-credentialing strategies to optimise learner outcomes.

Equity in Education – Economic Mobility Through Alternative Credentials

November 10, 2022

When we talk about education, we often describe it as a tool for economic mobility. We tell high school kids to go to college, get a degree, and that is the path to a good career. For adult learners, we advocate that they go back to school, finish that degree, get a master’s or a doctorate – easy ways to “get ahead” and enhance their ability to move forward in their careers.

WEBINAR RECORDING: The Assessment Summit – Cultivating New Approaches to Assessment in Workplace L&D

October 19, 2022

6 October 2022 Duration – 30 Minutes 4:00 – 4:30pm AEDT Assessment is something we don’t think or talk about enough in learning and development, but it’s one of the keys to transforming the impact of what we do in L&D. The Assessment Summit by Sprout Labs brings together some of the world’s most accomplished learning experts to share a smorgasbord of practical, actionable advice on assessment.

How Standards and Interoperability Are Enabling Credential Curation, Dynamic Credentials and Learner Agency

October 17, 2022

In this conversation style interview, Dan McFadyen and Nicholas Robert, Co-Founder and CEO of Learning Vault, explore how standards and interoperability are enabling credential curation, dynamic credentials and learner agency.

How Connecting Degrees to Careers Can Address the Decline in Degree Value

October 12, 2022

Four-year degrees have seen a marked drop in enrolment and completion rates in recent years. Learners are critically weighing the value of full degrees against typically shorter, less expensive skills-based learning, to quickly develop high-demand workplace skills. The investment in time and money – with no guarantee of work at the end – and the rise of skills-based hiring among employers are some of the key factors contributing to the decline in the perceived value of traditional degrees. In this information-rich Credentialate Guide, we ask – How much has the education landscape changed? What are the factors impacting enrolments? Where are learners going instead? And how can educators bolster the perceived value of degrees by connecting them more directly to work?

Using Vision, Collaboration and Technology to Tackle Wicked Skills Challenges

September 29, 2022

In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Dr. Naomi Boyer, Executive Director, Digital Transformation at Education Design Lab (the Lab), explore how we can all use vision, collaboration and technology enablement to tackle wicked challenges in the skills ecosystem.

The House is On Fire – When It’s Innovate or Die, Skills Can Help You Respond

September 19, 2022

In a recent article titled “College Ed Must Adapt or Die”, Jason Wingard, the President of Temple University in Pennsylvania stated simply, “Consider this my burning platform memo for higher ed.” What was he referring to? There is a crisis happening in higher education right now, and if it were any other type of business, there would be widespread panic.

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