We're excited to announce the release of significant enhancements to our Credentialate platform. Credentialate now provides an end-to-end skills recognition solution and solves a number of significant challenges faced across the education spectrum. Further details in the Press Release below.
Our latest blog post is out and this time we shed light on the evolving role of Community Colleges, highlighting their shift towards meeting the skills gap in partnership with local employers. A reevaluation of student outcomes, skills and college credits is preparing them for the skills-based economy. Read on in the link below.
On another note, Dan is back in the U.S. and will be attending the MTC Symposium and 2024 CBExchange Conference (which we are proud sponsors of) in person next week. Connect with him or drop by for a chat and to pick up a Tim Tam!
Significant Enhancements to Credentialate Announced
We're excited to announce the release of significant enhancements to our Credentialate platform that includes extended digital credential agent capabilities, a learner dashboard, and a WC3-compliant digital backpack. These enhancements ensure that Credentialate offers a never-before-seen end-to-end solution for skills-focused providers.
“The new functionality solves a number of significant challenges faced by the education spectrum, from K-12 through lifelong learning. Credentialate can now serve as an end-to-end skills recognition platform, from generating personalised evidence records to issuing digital credentials to providing dynamic learner and cohort dashboards to provisioning a digital backpack used by learners throughout their lifelong learning. Key to this is the tech enablement of next-generation learning models that ultimately promote learner agency.” said Dan McFadyen, Managing Director of Edalex.
Edalex Blog Post - Community Colleges: Stacking Credentials as a Bridge to Higher Education
Community colleges traditionally were created to address the population of learners who pursued two-year degree programs which often led to transferring into a four-year university degree. However, as global skills gaps have increased, the need to shift from a traditional student demographic and outcome to one that meets the needs of lifelong learners seeking to re-skill or upskill to stay relevant has become critical. Lack of funding and infrastructure created challenges for many community colleges seeking to pivot to meet this new demand.
A growing number of community colleges have begun to reevaluate student outcomes, skills and even what, exactly, counts when it comes to college credit. In some cases, skills-based credentials can be stacked, education can be paused and returned to when the student is ready, and degrees have taken on new meaning.
In Edalex's latest blog post, we discuss some of those developments and what they mean when it comes to the skills-based economy.
We're excited about the upcoming 2023 Symposium hosted by the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) next week. Edalex will be among numerous global edtech leaders sharing user experiences and gaining insights into innovative approaches for competency-based learning.
Our Managing Director Dan McFadyen will be there in person, and if you're attending too, don't hesitate to stop by for a chat! You can connect with Dan on LinkedIn for more interaction.
Edalex is proud to sponsor CBExchange2023 - Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN)’s annual conference! Don't miss out on the session led by our Managing Director, Dan McFadyen, where he'll be diving into "Scaling Digital Competency Recognition: Progression Towards Mastery via Personal Evidence Records"
Time: 4 October at 2:40 PM - 3:10 PM ET (5 October at 5:40 AM - 6:10 AM AEDT).