Grainne Hamilton from Digital Me and co-founder of Women in Tech Scotland presenting about digital credentials. Presented at Women in Tech Scotland Meetup on 22nd March 2016.
4. • Understanding we have skills
• Being able to articulate our skills
• Seeing how our skills connect us to employment
• Being aware of our intrinsic motivators at a
skills micro level
Pathways to employment
- challenges -
8. A framework for helping underprivileged youth
identify their skills and develop resilience in
pursuing a path to career they would thrive in
Mozilla Discover Open Badges
9. A prototype tool that employers could use to
create badge-based pathways to jobs and
learners could use badges to complete
Mozilla Discover Open Badges
12. An Open Badge journey
Showcase applied
skills & attributes
Skills-awareness &
articulation of skills
CPD & Lifelong
learning
School Transition into
employment
Professionals
19. Girls Transition into tech Women in tech
Badge profiles help
girls recognise tech
related skills at an
early age
Badge pathways link
skills gained at school
with job skills
Badge evidence and
evidence-based
endorsements
provide recognition of
contribution to tech
DigitalMe – small non-profit based in Leeds
Past 5 years working to advocate the use of open badges within the UK & Europe
We believe passionately that all people should be able to gain validation & recognition for their skills and achievements and be able to transfer these in a meaningful way to unlock new opportunities
We work with schools and learning providers, charities, employers and awarding bodies to support them to implement open badges as a way to capture learning across a range of settings.
Interested to explore today the opportunities to use badging to recognise CPD and our role is to share examples and tools that can help you to start to think about this.
How does it work?
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Evidence
Issuer
Allows consumer to validate information and derive value from it