Deakin Universities’ Emeritus Professor Beverley Oliver has argued for the introduction of digital skill badges in stark contrast to the current direction of Government reviews in this area. Recognising transportable, micro skills is essential to the growth of sector four, and will be a great enabler of continuous learning.
Campus Morning Mail reports:
“As the future of work unfolds, working citizens are likely to need more and better granular certified learning – micro and macro – to evidence their educational currency amid rapid change,” Emeritus Professor Oliver argues.
“Micro-credentials are one way to enable certification of new skills, as well as validate the skills already acquired through experience. More credit-bearing experiences will open up a system of certification well beyond the fairly closed higher education and vocational qualification system currently in place in many nations, (my emphasis)” she suggests.
Her report is a gutsy contrast to some submissions to the Noonan review of the Australian Qualifications Framework, which is considering micro-credentials, although not too closely if submissions from peak university groups set the standard. (CMM July 29). The generality of arguments range from not needed, to not needed now, and on to not anybody but us.” Read more here.