Micro and digital credentials: a subterranean revolution?
1. MICRO AND DIGITAL CREDENTIALS: A
SUBTERRANEAN REVOLUTION?
Fabio Nascimbeni, ETF
2. The importance of Credentials
As a person learns throughout their lifetime they
create value.
Human Capital often refers to the sum of the
value of the learning within an organization.
Human
Capital
Education
& Training
Work
Experience
Hard &
Soft Skills
Attitudes &
Personality
Life
Experience
How can I
communicate / optimise
what I know to overcome barriers to social
mobility and/or employment, across sectoral
and geographic barriers?
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• A credential, in its most essential
form, is a documented statement
containing claims made about a
person
• qualifications (e.g., professional
certificates, university diplomas, VET
diplomas, and diploma supplements),
• activities (e.g., participation in
classes and non-formal learning
events),
• assessments (e.g., transcripts of
records), and
• entitlements (e.g., right to enrol in
learning opportunities, or to undertake
an occupation)
Types of Digital Credentials
13. How the Open Badges Infrastructure works in practice
16. e-Portfolio
Set of online tools &
information to manage
every step of your learning
and career.
Jobs, Courses, and
Qualifications Search
Central database to search for courses,
qualifications, accreditation throughout
Europe and link with EURES
Europass infosite
Presents information as described on
the Europass decision and the first
access point to register and use the
digital tools.
Digital skills Test
Open-source tool to assess
and improve digital skills.
Based on the Digital
Competence Framework.
Digital Credentials
Set of standards, services &
software allowing institutions
to issue digital, tamper-proof
qualifications and other
learning credentials.
Europass Components & Interoperability
17. Digital Education Action Plan
European
Digital
Credentials for
learning
European Data Strategy
Europass Decision
European Skills Agenda
Central to the EU's Policy Agenda
Micro-Credentials
Recommendation
Individual Learning
Account Recommendation
Completing the European Education Area (2025)
18. European Digital Credentials for Learning
Functions
credentials and
send them to their
owners
credentials
securely in a
single online or
offline wallet
if the credential is
authentic, valid and
issued by an
accredited
organisation
the information in the
credential with any
other person or
organisation with just
a click
Issue Store Verify Share
The digital world has become pervasive in education and training. A lot of teaching and learning takes place online or digitally, hurried along by the COVID-19 pandemic but also by the never-ending quest for better education. Digital technologies support education innovation and delivery in multiple ways. How might countries harness the best of digital to boost education?
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The PPT is for ETF to present its work on digital education (and on the digitalization of E&T systems - in a long run).
To tailor the PPT o specific needs and audience, It includes libraries for e.g., key messages, policy recommendations, digital flagships etc. from which to tailor the PPT to specific audience.
LLL definition: the term ‘lifelong learning (lll) policy’ is used to refer to any kind of policy designed and implemented by governments and other stake-holders to create learning opportunities for all ages (children, young people, adults and older people, girls and boys, women and men), in all life-wide contexts (family, school, community, workplace and so on) and through a variety of modalities (formal, non-formal and informal).Source: United nations, 2015Figure 1: Sustainable development goals
Making lifelong learning a reality: a handbook - UNESCO Digital Library
Adopters:
LU “digital Luxembourg” strategy (all VET diplomas issued since Oct-21)
HR issued its first multilingual digital degrees in Oct-21
Digital Innovations in Credential Evaluation and the Networks (DigiNet) using EDC for recognition,
MT issued 2,200+ transcripts of records in early 2022,
European Student Network issues non-formal training certificates from within a few weeks of joining the Early Adopters Programme,
European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) building own solution, that includes exchange of credentials between the consortium and with digital credentials for micro-credentials
Ongoing discussions with Germany, Austria, Spain (CertiDigital Project), Portugal, Belgium (nl), Ireland, Slovenia, Latvia
The framework will have five distinct functions:
[IDENTIFY]
Learners to be awarded the credential documenting skills, competence or qualifications.
[ISSUE]
Credentials to learners (issued by awarding bodies) to be sent to the credential owner
[STORE]
Credentials after being issued by awarding body. Credentials owners will securely store credentials in a wallet (online or offline)
[VERIFY]
Authenticity of credential that has willingly been shared by a learner or jobseeker with an employer or other organisations. Verify as well that credential has been issued by accredited body.
Mention that usually for paper certificates the user first shares and then verifies the credential. But for the DSC the verification will come with the sharing of the credential
[SHARE]
The credential with an employer or other organisations. Credential owners will decide with whome they wish to share their credential with.
While EDCs can describe various aspects of learning, using 400 properties detailed in the ELM, only a handful of them are compulsory. Without these basic pieces of information, the EDC Issuer will not allow credential awarding bodies to issue credentials.
While EDCs can describe various aspects of learning, using 400 properties detailed in the ELM, only a handful of them are compulsory. Without these basic pieces of information, the EDC Issuer will not allow credential awarding bodies to issue credentials.