An informative presentation from Doug Belshaw on Open Badges: Open badges : A new learning currency Tim Riches & Doug Belshaw Learning Technologies 29 Jan 2014 from DigitalME I find the approach of badging to be very interesting – another lighter form of credit accumulation – but will be interested to see how effective they’ll … Read more
This is my slide deck used in a workshop on employability and the eight European Key Competences for the Propound project part funded by the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme Workshop presentation on Key Competence development for students from Peter Evans The presentation was followed by a World Cafe event discussing what we mean by … Read more
Really interesting post here from Pontydysgu on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF). In particular, the post highlights some of the issues of privileging certain types of (generic) expertise over specialisations. The example is of managerial competences being given a higher status than some specialist ones within the EQF in relation to trainers/ L&D professionals. The … Read more