C3 Webinar Series�Connecting Competency Communities
January 18, 2023 Capturing and Sharing Achieved Competencies as Data
Welcome!
The C3 Webinar Series aims to improve communications between those involved with creating, maintaining, discovering, distributing, and using competency data.
The C3 monthly webinar connects interested persons to experts and futurists building the systems, processes, and technologies to ease the burden of creating, maintaining, discovering, distributing, and using competencies.
Naomi Boyer, Chairperson, Advancing Open Competencies (AOC) Workgroup
Kimberly creates strategic partnerships to form comprehensive digital ecosystems to enable the exchange of verifiable credentials related to an individual’s achievements, skills, knowledge, and experience. Her work spans the education, employment, and technology domains to give individual’s agency over the professional data they collect. Kimberly has been a leader in education for over 25 years impacting the lives of students, families, and educators. Her experience building diverse teams, driving product development, and establishing strategies to achieve broad adoption uniquely positions her to translate cutting edge technology for credentials into real world solutions. Kimberly currently services as a co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group and oversees The Lifelong Learner Project which was a recipient of the 2019 American Council on Education (ACE) Blockchain Innovation Challenge.
Tracy is the ND Statewide Longitudinal Data System Program Manager for the Information Technology Department. His background with the State spans 25 years including software development, data warehousing and IT Director for Public Instruction. The past 10 years specifically with the SLDS team which built a successful K12, postsecondary and workforce data warehouse; integrating the systems and providing services such as Educator and Student/Parent portals, a statewide eTranscript system, public reporting sites and is currently leading the initiative to publish K12 transcripts as digital credential to a student wallet.
Joshua is a senior advisor at PCG and directs open learning technology solutions across the practice. On staff with PCG since 2013, Joshua is a skilled and innovative leader in product design, management, research and development of educational software, content management and e-learning solutions. His background includes over three decades applying emerging technologies to address market needs in e-learning, assessment, online and print publishing, content management, rich media distribution, and content discovery. Joshua possesses exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills. He has an industry reputation for being a seasoned, innovative, business savvy technology leader who sees the big picture and contributes both technically and strategically to the success of an entire organization. He is also one of the founders of the OER (Open educational Resources) movement as founding CTO and on-going technical advisor to Curriki.org, and is a nationally recognized leader in the areas of open curriculum, communities of educational practice, assessment technology, learning resource metadata and systems interoperability with extensive experience leading standards initiatives at LRMI, IMS Global, SIF (Access4All), and other national and international bodies.
�Duncan Cox, Vice President of Business Development at Learning Economy (LinkedIn)�
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Duncan’s work lies at the intersection of playful design, web3 technologies, and community facilitation. Duncan’s current projects include launching a DAO, and supporting deployments of LEF’s digital wallet, LearnCard. https://www.learningeconomy.io/
LearnCard: What is it?
Why LearnCard?
Implementation #1: Super Skills
Next steps for Super Skills
Implementation #2: Super Skills
LEARNBRIDGE
Motlow’s Learn Bridge acts as a credential factory, assembling learning and HR data, skills data, and any other real world event into verifiable credentials to be issued, stored, and shared in Motlow’s LearnCard.
Links
Reach out: duncan@learningeconomy.io
Q&A + Discussion
North Dakota Digital Credentials� Connecting Education and Workforce and Workforce
North Dakota Digital Credentials
Connecting Education and Workforce
supported a community of collaboration
Paper Credentials
Human Readable Digital Credential
Machine Readable Digital Credentials
Verifiable and Distributed Digital Credentials
Future LER and Job Data Exchange
Phase1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
�Phase 1&2:��Provide a free achievement “wallet” service for citizens and an issuer utility service. MyWallet.ND.Gov ��Goal: Remove all barriers, friction and costs associated with adopting digital verifiable credentials and issuing stackable micro-credentials to (L)Earners.
Mywallet.nd.gov
Phase 3: ��Demonstrate a technical methodology for Education System to prepare learners for in demand jobs by developing and offering local and regional “Career pathways”. ��
Career�Pathways
Adoption Strategy�Fund and implement pilot pathways of stackable micro-credentials in high demand sectors where either grant funding or licensing requirements can be leveraged to support the use of stackable micro-credentials from multiple issuers:
Career�Pathways��Include award criteria and competency alignments in the credential definitions
Publish credentials and pathways using CTDL
Adoption Strategy�Publish credentials, micro-credentials and Pathways in a national registry using CTDL to make them discoverable and to articulate the underlying skills involved.
Publish �skills and competencies (Standards, Course Catalogs, Course Objectives)
Adoption Strategy�Help programs align courses and assessments to industry and national standards like NICE for Cyber Security and AWS for Welding.
Phase 4: ��Enable the curation and sharing of achievements with a range of job and post secondary “Verifiers” ��
Smart Resume Video - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gJMALyCwEt8IgPfDHurPqC0aib7GisI5/view?usp=sharing
Infrastructure Strategy�Fund and implement a free and Open-Source solution stack and collaborate with other jurisdictions on evolving and integrating the tools:��OCP – Open Credential Publisher�OpenSALT – Publishing and linking skill definitions�Open Credential Issuer – A tool for issuing agencies�CTDL – The Credential Transparency Description Language (And the Registry of credentials)��
Future Phase 5: ��Build a collaboration forum and set of shared services where all stakeholders can coordinate on pathways and competency coherence. �
Employers should drive�Engage employers on defining core skills and sector-based competencies… Outreach and promotion is needed
Q&A
Next steps
Digital credentials and career pathways for efficient talent pipelines in North Dakota
Digital credentials can become a driver of economic development
- Kick-start Digital Citizen Identities and Services
- Define and fill the skill and talent gaps
- Re-organize education around developing skills and mastery
- Empowering learners and earners to connect with employers
- Empower employers to cultivate regional talent pools
- Provide for re-skilling and up-skilling
+ Recognizing transferable skills
+ Recognizing prior experience
+ Connecting academic and workplace achievements
Employers
Job Requirement
CTE
DPI
Learning Standards
DOL
Job Roles (SOC Codes)
AI Driven Skill matching engine
Employer define regional needs and skills profiles
Developmental Pathways to Careers
Educational Institutions (PK-20+)
Award achievements as digital credentials
Using technology to connect job requirements to educational goals to help learners own their personal learning journey
AI Skill Matching Engine
Academic Standards
CTE Standards
Industry Standards
Industry Certifications
Post-secondary degrees, courses and micro credentials
Jobs and Apprenticeship programs
O*Net SOC codes and competency models
Problem: Workforce Development and Education Systems are siloed, and do not coordinate to connect supply and demand.
Education System Creates
Workforce Development Creates
Result: Learners are left without a clear path to local opportunity and employers are left with candidates that do not have the skills they require.
Q&A + Discussion
Next Webinar: February 15, 2023
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