21st century skills

Edalex announces new Education Design Lab partnership with focus on 21st century skills and personal skills evidence

April 1, 2022

Edalex, the EdTech company that unleashes the power of skills data, digital assets, and personal credentials, announces an exciting new partnership with Education Design Lab (the Lab). The collaboration focuses on synergies between the Lab’s 21st Century Skills Micro-credentials, Edalex’s Credentialate platform, and expertise from both organisations in mapping and surfacing personalised skills evidence from the curriculum.

Edalex selected for Global Victoria EdTech Innovation Alliance project to assess employability outcomes from personalised evidence

February 24, 2022

Edalex, the EdTech company on a mission to surface learning outcomes, digital assets and the power of individual achievement, is thrilled to announce that they have been selected to receive funding in support of their Edalex Credentialate Alliance project, as part of the Global Victoria EdTech Innovation Alliance (GVEIA) program.

Lens on Employers – Educator and Industry Collaborations

February 22, 2022

Over the past year, we’ve focussed our Lens on Learners: the types of learners, how they learn, and what they want from their education. With our Lens on Educators, we’ve explored what it will take for the education system to effectively bridge the gap between learners and employers.

Bridging the Gap Between Digital Skills and Employability for the Future of Work

December 20, 2021

In this conversation style interview, Dan McFadyen and Lyndon Blanchard, Chief Operating Officer of the Digital Skills Organisation (DSO), discuss the demand for digital skills supply at both national and global levels and how the DSO are working to enable digital upskilling and reskilling and create a job-ready workforce.

Lens on Educators – The Unbundling of Education and What it Means

December 9, 2021

Centralised methods of education have been the hub of learning historically for a long time. However, at what we now consider the K-12 level, education was often decentralised. Learning occurred at home, or with a small local community of leaders with different specialties, in one-room schoolhouses and more.

Edalex selected for multiple OSN Skill Collaboratives to explore rich skill descriptors (RSD) and skills framework alignment

November 24, 2021

Edalex, the edTech company on a mission to surface learning outcomes, digital assets and the power of individual achievement, is thrilled to announce that they have been selected as part of multiple Skills Collaborative Projects, an initiative led by the Open Skills Network (OSN). The Open Skills Network (OSN) is a coalition of employers, education providers, military, and other stakeholders dedicated to advancing skills-based education and hiring.

Lens on Educators – Career Mobility, Web 3.0, Fortnite and Meta Universities

October 27, 2021

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.” – Charlie Munger We focus our Lens on Educators a bit wider than usual today, as we digress into the realm of possibility. We take a blue-sky approach to consider what the future world of learning might look like if we borrowed a verification system the banking industry has been using since the days of the stage coach – and end up in a Web 3.0 hyper-connected Meta University. Here’s how it started…

What Learners Need from Employability

October 27, 2021

All degrees are not created equal, and employers know that. They also know that just because a learner has completed a course of study does not mean they have both the soft and hard skills needed to perform the work in the position they are seeking. In other words, a degree does not equal employability in all cases. In this information-rich Credentialate Guide we explore what employability outcomes learners, educators and employers want.

Lens on Educators – Helping Learners Identify & Talk to Their Transferable Skills

October 4, 2021

As we focus our Lens on Educators in the latest arc of our Stakeholders in the Modern Credential Marketplace series, the real story is the interaction between educators and learners. Because it is the learners who will take the skills and knowledge transferred to them through education out into the world, where they will need to do something with them.

Aligning Non-formal to Formal Learning Pathways

September 27, 2021

In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Jeffrey Lehrer, National RTO Compliance Manager from Scouts Australia, discuss the challenges and opportunities around aligning non-formal learning to formal learning pathways for both their youth members and adult volunteers. They also discuss what youth organisations globally are doing to help participants gain recognition of transferable skills learnt through their programs, to be used as credits towards getting into the course they want or when looking for work.

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