International Council on Badges and Credentials

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International Council on Badges and Credentials [ICoBC] on LinkedIn: U.S. Air Force First Sergeant Digital Credential Public Survey Dear Badges & Credentials experts, if you have 15 minutes to spare, could you take either one of the two surveys to give your feedback to the U.S. Air ...

What are digital and why does your organization need them?

Join the virtual information session on 15th of December 2020 at 3pm CET (GMT+1)

"In the span of just four months, the ITCILO made the permanent switch to digital credentials. We started talking about making the change in May and issued the first digital credential in September. Our culture of innovation makes it easy to turn good ideas into reality. The digitalization immediately and directly affected the way we work at the Centre. This is just the latest step of the Centre’s digital transformation. As technology advances, our relationship with social media deepens, and learning choices become more varied, the ITCILO will continue to innovate for a sustainable and digital future.

Want to know how? Want to help your organization take the first step towards this switch? Join our free information session and meet the people behind the transformation"

The organizers: Eiman Elmasry & Tom Wambeke

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: What are digital credentials and why does your organization need them?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. In the span of just four months, the ITCILO made the permanent switch to digital credentials. We started talking about making the change in May and issued the first digital credential in September. Our culture of innovation makes it easy to turn good ideas into reality. The digitalization immediatel...

International Council on Badges and Credentials updated their address.

We are very excited that and are prominently featured at with many well known speakers! 🏅🤩🖥️

Tune in on Monday at 5pm CET for Sheila Jagannathan's session "The Future of Learning and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Skilling and ".

Don't miss Beverley Oliver's plenary session on Tuesday at 9:30am CET: Global Developments in and Associated "Hot Issues".

On the same day, Rupert Ward talks about "How a 21st Century and a Supporting Framework Can Revolutionise How We Learn"

Then on Wednesday, we have Garnet Berry speaking on "Learning to Bridge Skills Gaps: Developing Awareness and Making Use of Digital Certificates" and Dominic Orr on "Atingi - Linking Partners and Tech to Serve Learners Across the Globe" at the same time (11:30 am), a difficult choice indeed - in particular because there is the at the same time with Jen Velev and Rolf Reinhardt talking about in the (this event is free).

At 12:00 am, we have Deborah Arnold, Ildiko Mazar, Rolf Reinhardt and others speaking about "Recognition of Digital (Micro)credentials – The Trust Factor".

If you haven't done yet, register today: it is only 150 Euro!

The challenge is how to start with a badging and credentialing initiative in a larger organisation, how to ensure internal buy-in of both management and employees as well as matching capabilities to jobs?

The working group provides a safe environment to discuss, plan, implement and improve badging and credentialing initiatives together with your peers and further stakeholders.

Join us in our next webmeeting in which we present the initial version of the Badges and Credentials Maturity Framework for Larger Organisations (BCM-FLO). Just register by using this link: https://linkedin.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcu-prz0uE9DEeHcPYyHdf9uQposqwZqA

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: [ICoBC] Regular Working Group Meeting: Rolling out a digital accreditation / badging / credentialing initiative in a larger organisation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about... Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: [ICoBC] Regular Working Group Meeting: Rolling out a digital accreditation / badging / credentialing initiative in a larger organisation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Never has there been so much momentum or excitement around the digital of and as today. The positive and increasing focus on lifelong – instead of batch loaded degrees that feel obsolete shortly after graduation – is a widely recognized, if understated, result of increasingly rapid technological change. As opposed to thousand year old institutions, traditions and unions dictating semestered , open source networks and multinational companies are delivering content based on labour market information ( ) that attempts to prepare learners for constantly evolving occupations and competencies. With exacerbating inequality and even creating inequity, the world seems poised to replace paper higher education with digital forms of skills recognition as the ultimate measure of human capital. institutions are defending their value beyond skills and brick-and-mortar place-based learning. Yet simultaneously they are being forced to move online in the face of a pandemic, to learn and apply over a summer the age old pedagogical rule that personalized is always superior. This is the beginning of a conversation about and skills, credentials and technology. Perceiving the need to build a consensus around the digital recognition of skills while reinforcing the trust of accredited education providers, the authors of this paper created the International Council Badges Credentials (ICoBC).

The Death of Degrees? A Turning Point in the History of Skills and Certification as Degrees Wane and Skills Wax – OEB Insights HomeNewsThe Death of Degrees? A Turning Point in the History of Skills and Certification as Degrees Wane and Skills Wax September 18, 2020 News Never has there been so much momentum or excitement around the digital recognition of skills and competencies as today. The positive and increasing focus on...

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Can Badge & Certification Programs Accelerate the Post-COVID-19 Recovery? Aug 03, 2020 // Amid COVID-19, higher education institutions have largely failed to develop new strategies to get students into the labor market as quickly as possible. Yet with the pandemic, faster and cheaper pathways to good jobs are needed now more than ever.

We hope you are having a great summer despite the current challenges. Several members of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors have taken some time off recently – others will be off during the next couple of weeks. We have nevertheless advanced two important initiatives that we want to share with you. Please find more information on how to become involved below.

One of the core ideas behind the ICoBC is the localization of resources in the field of badges and credentials that are currently mainly available in English. For this reason we have assembled a team of Spanish, German, French, Russian and Italian speakers to review translated content on the ICoBC website in these languages. If you speak an additional language and you want to promote the awareness on the potential of badges and credentials in that language, please send an email to [email protected].

Four weeks ago we asked members of ICoBC if they wanted to partner in a consortium to apply for funding for a nation-wide education platform in Germany. The call was successful and we have a team together which we believe is particularly strong at facilitating different training providers in a central platform and recognizing non-formally acquired skills.

We also have received similar requests from other countries to partner for projects related to grants such as US "The Reimagine Workforce Preparation Grant Program". Whilst we think it is too early yet to launch a related working group, we are inviting interested parties to join a conference call on the subject. If you want to be invited to that meeting, please email [email protected] to be invited to participate in a Doodle survey on the meeting date.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or proposals please send them over to [email protected].

Thank you and best wishes,

Armin
President

A group of higher ed and workforce co-authors from across Canada came together to brainstorm how a future stimulus could facilitate lasting change in these systems. One key principle behind the group was to put aside our egos or logos. See here the resulting piece, published by the Public Policy Forum and First Policy Response:

A Policymaker's Recovery Agenda for Higher Education

https://ppforum.ca/policy-speaking/a-policymakers-recovery-agenda-for-higher-education/

A Policymaker’s Recovery Agenda for Higher Education - Public Policy Forum An assembly of higher education and workforce practitioners, thinkers and entrepreneurs came together during the COVID-19 crisis to find ways to help as our institutions and policymakers grapple with challenges never-before seen in our lifetimes. All participate on a voluntary and non-partisan basis...

On July 1st, the European Commission launched the Europass platform - a single European portal for citizens to manage their learning and careers. (https://europass.eu) One of the main functionalities of the new platform is Europass Digital Credentials (EDC) - a suite of free software and services that will help individuals and organisations to issue, store, share and verify digital credentials which are legally admissible throughout the European Union.

Anthony Camilleri, member of the Board at ICoBC, is one of the leading people involved in the launch of EDC and invites you to an early-adopters programme, which provides implementation support for organisations interested in issuing or receiving Europass digital credentials. This includes support for software companies designing student information systems, learning management systems, e-portfolios or human resource management systems to support interoperability with Europass.

If you would like to learn more about EDC, and how to integrate EDC to your digital ecosystem, we invite you to join the first EDC webinar, which will be organised at the end of July. For more information and pre-registration please contact their team at : [email protected].

Home | Europass Europass is a set of online tools to help with creating CVs, cover letters and also help users to find jobs and courses in the EU. Europass also matches user skills and interests such as location and topic to success suitable jobs. It is a useful tool to find information on studying or working in th...

Thanks to the members who participated in the call for participation (two weeks ago) of the working group on developing a curriculum on badges & credentials which is lead by Ilona Buchem: we have so far identified trainers for English, German, Portuguese and Spanish. If you are native speaker of another main language (e.g. Arabic, Indian or Chinese) who wants to become a trainer as well or if you want to contribute to the curriculum, please contact Ilona.

We wanted to inform you that in addition to our Facebook group, our social media marketing team has now also launched a page on LinkedIn which we welcome you to participate and which we will update with news in due time.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2702395/

If you have any questions, suggestions, or proposals please send them over to [email protected]

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Hi all,

Welcome to the recently merged and re-branded International Council on Badges and Credentials Facebook group.

Director Simone Ravaioli has invited interested parties to join the Kick-Off meeting on "Recommended Practice for Integrated Learner Record (ILR)".

The need for this project was identified by the US Chamber of Commerce T3 Innovation Network and promoted by the White House to US Federal agencies in December, 2019. Members of the Digital Credential Consortium and Credentials Communities Group ( ) reinforced the importance of this work. Multiple initiatives in Europe - including the Europass Digital Credential Infrastructure ( ) and the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure ( ) - and in Asia point to the need for international recommended practices as well.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, July 9th 2020 at 11am EDT (5pm CET). You can register below to join the Webex.

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Reflections on EPALE, the portal for adult learning in Europe.

EPALE - one year on: interview with Lauren Beech - Elm - European lifelong learning magazine The adult education portal EPALE was launched by the European Commission over a year ago. EPALE's content is largely user-generated: the portal strives to be a one-stop shop for adult educators, offering a variety of resources such as articles, partner searches and discussion fora. EPALE is managed…

The Open University of the UK has just published a new report on innovative pedagogy. A short overview can be found at the blog of Inge de Waard.

@Ignatia Webs: Free report on #innovative #pedagogy, practices and use

"We must accept subjective opinion into our understanding of quality in e-learning and use it to build better courses."

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Be a part and enhance the quality of any eLearning courseware!

A detailed description of the e-course 'Understanding Quality' is presented below. If you have an interest to join the e-course which is jointly developed by epprobate and Toldco, please contact with us or just visit http://epprobate.com/index.php/quality-courses/understanding-quality

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We are announcing our new e-course about understanding quality for those wishing to know more about Quality in Courseware and e-learning generally, with the intention of understanding what quality might be in Online Distance Learning and Knowledge Banks.

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A new blogpost of Peter Condon inviting interested individuals to join the course of "Understanding Quality" who wants to be sure of the quality of their e-learning courseware.

The first run will be on October 20th. If you are interested please keep in touch.

QUODL - Quality of Online & Distance Education This is the blog of Peter Condon, Learning Architect and Mentor at The Online Learning Development Company, (http://www.toldco.co.uk/)and National Partner with epprobate in the UK and Ireland.(http://epprobate.com/) TOLDCº is focused upon the quality of the learning experience throughout the online…

The Rules of e-Learning: Be sure of the Quality of your e-Learning

QUODL - Quality of Online & Distance Education: The Rules of e-Learning: Be sure of the Quality... This is the blog of Peter Condon, Learning Architect and Mentor at The Online Learning Development Company, (http://www.toldco.co.uk/)and National Partner with epprobate in the UK and Ireland.(http://epprobate.com/) TOLDCº is focused upon the quality of the learning experience throughout the online…

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