Edalex Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Edalex Podcast – We are an EdTech whose mission is to surface learning outcomes, digital assets, and the power of individual achievement. Each episode features a thought-provoking conversation with global technology leaders and educators, where we discuss how we can deliver better outcomes for 21st century learners. Visit our website: edalex.com to learn more about us and stay tuned by following us via your podcast app, LinkedIn or Twitter.
In this interview, Dan McFadyen, Managing Director of Edalex, and Julian Ridden, Head of Growth for Australia at Quizizz delve into the role of AI in education. They discuss the potential benefits and risks of AI, emphasising the need for thoughtful integration in educational settings. They also highlight the importance of understanding the risks associated with AI, such as bias and data security. The conversation emphasises the need for caution in AI adoption and the importance of using AI to solve genuine problems in education. Overall, they express optimism about the future of AI, and its ability to enhance human experiences and education, while also acknowledging the need for proactive measures to adapt to technological advancements.
3:18 - Unpacking the Potential of AI in Education and Keeping Up with Rapid Advancements
11:47 - Balancing Mitigated Risk and Reward in Gen AI Integration Strategies
22:17 - Navigating Hidden Risks from Gen AI and its Adoption in Education Settings
30:53 - Harnessing the Power of AI - Overcoming Challenges and Opportunities for Educators
43:46 - How to Ride the AI Wave - Crafting EdTech Solutions That Solve Real Problems
49:28 - AI's Revolutionary Impact on Education and Society in the Future
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
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In this interview, Dan McFadyen, Managing Director of Edalex engages with Taylor Kendal, President of Learning Economy Foundation to explore LEF’s initiatives, including LearnCard and the LearnCloud, aiming to revolutionise education and employment record infrastructure through open-source, interoperable systems a.k.a Digital Skill Wallet. Their conversation anticipates a future where individuals have greater control over their learning and employment agenda, fostering socio-economy mobility rebalancing and lifelong learning opportunities, while the LEF’s vision extends to stewarding this infrastructure’s widespread adoption and impact over the next five years and beyond.
1:33 – Learning Economy Foundation’s Innovative Path and its LearnCard’s Impacts
7:27 – Transforming Scouts Recognition through the LearnCard’s Digital Wallet Technology
17:44 – Unlocking Education and Employment Opportunities with Digital Wallets and Strategic Partnerships
21:53 – Navigating the Applicability and Impacts of LEF’s Open Digital Wallet Tool – LearnCard
27:55 – Bridging Data Silos through Interoperability – LEF’s Vision for their LearnCloud Initiative
34:11 – LEF’s Vision in Connecting Learning to Work towards the Skills-based Economy
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
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In this interview, Dan McFadyen, Managing Director of Edalex and Kate Valenti, Co-Chief Executive Officer at Unicon Inc. explore the evolving education landscape as they delve into key aspects of Competency-Based Education (CBE), the integration of General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), and the redefinition of qualifications beyond traditional degrees. The conversation is divided into 6 thought-provoking chapters, each shedding light on different aspects of their covered topics:
01:13 – Exploring the Landscape of Competency-Based Education: Insights from a Leading EdTech
11:39 – Strategies for Competency-based Education Adoption: Current Infrastructure vs Customised Solutions
15:23 – Embracing the Artificial Intelligence Wave: a Perspective on Integrating GenAI in Educational Institutions
22:21 – Skills-Focused and Beyond Degrees: Rethinking Higher Ed in the Face of Declining Enrolment
31:26 – Innovative Projects with Strategic Partners to Reshape the Future of Education in HE and K-12
35:09 – Building and Sustaining a Successful Culture for a Remote-First Workforce
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalexsolutions
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalexsolutions
In this podcast episode, Dan McFadyen, Managing Director at Edalex speaks with Will Stubley, Co-CEO/Co-Founder of Year13, where they delve into the critical issues surrounding education and employment for your people in Australia and across the globe. The conversation is divided into 7 thought-provoking chapters, each shedding light on different aspects of the educational landscape.
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Year13’s Mission - Transforming School-to-Work Transition for Young Australians
5:55 - Exploring Post-School Pathways and Opportunities for Youth
8:58 - Skills and Qualifications to Work Hand-in-Hand to Address Skills Gaps
13:16 - Empowering Learners, Nurturing Skills Recognition and Educational Equity
19:18 - Research Insights - Challenges and Opportunities in Education Decision-Making
25:06 - How US and Australian Systems Can Thrive Through Collaboration and Partnership
30:24 - Year13 Roadmap - Revolutionising Post-School Transitions Through Alignment
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
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Dan McFadyen, Managing Director at Edalex speaks with Dr. Charla Long, President of the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) where they cover various aspects of competency-based education (CBE) and its future impact. Overall, the interview provides insights into the revolutionary nature of CBE and its potential to revolutionise learning for lifelong success.
0:00 - Introduction
5:11 - The Formation of Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN): Missions, Values, and Goals
11:53 - Redefine Learning Outcome Metrics: The Shift from Time-Based to Competency-Based Education
16:42 - A Global Shift towards Competency-Based Education: Unleashing the Potential of Skills and Competencies
25:52- Building a Common Language for Skills: Unlocking Learning Exchange and Global Collaboration
30:52 - Empowering Learners Through Personalised Learning Pathways and Asset-Based Approach to Education
38:06 - C-BEN Vision for the Future of Competency-Based Education as a Nexus of Lifelong Learning
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalexsolutions
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalexsolutions
Dan McFadyen, Managing Director at Edalex speaks with Ryan O'Hare, CEO and Founder of Keypath Education (Australia and Asia-Pacific) where they discuss how to get ahead in Higher Education by challenging assumptions, focusing on digital strategies, embracing skills-based learning, catering to lifelong learners (the new majority) and being learner-centric.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 1:37 - Keypath Education’s journey so far and the drivers of their rapid growth - internal (e.g. market knowledge, partnerships) and external (e.g. rise of technology, COVID)
- 6:00 - What higher education is already doing well and why digital strategy, systems interoperability, integrated data and lifelong learning should be the focus in 2023
- 16:37 - Learners have already shifted from traditional qualifications to skills-based learning - and the majority are lifelong learners / earners, not young adults
- 26:21 - To remain relevant, higher education needs to challenge long-held assumptions around who learners are, cohort segments, learning preferences, and industry alignment
- 30:07 - A top-down people-centric culture - with an intentional focus on diversity, equity and inclusion - underpins Keypath Education’s success
- 36:42- Why you should stop doing pilots and start committing instead - going all in can mean the difference between success and failure
- 39:28 - Higher education changes in the foreseeable future - A learner-centric vision
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalexsolutions
In this conversation-style interview, Dan McFadyen and Lyndon Blanchard, Chief Operating Officer of the Digital Skills Organisation (DSO), discuss the demand for digital skills supply at both national and global levels and how the DSO is working to enable digital upskilling and reskilling and create a job-ready workforce.
Note: This discussion was first published about a year ago as a way of looking back at how far we've come in this fast-moving sector.
Their topics of discussion include:
0:35 - The DSO and its Mission to Support a Successful Economy Through Digital Skills
4:24 - The Impacts of Digital Revolution and Its Significant Role in Learning, Upskilling or Reskilling
11:22 - Addressing the Digital Skills Gap With the Cremorne Project
18:21 - How Can Learners/Employees Maximise the ROI from their Education?
24:18 - Personalised Evidence and its Importance to Learner’s Employability in the Digital Era
30:30 - The DSO’s Vision of Digital Skilling in the Near Future
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/edalexsolutions
In this conversation-style interview, Dan McFadyen and Nicholas Robert, Co-Founder and CEO of Learning Vault, explore how standards and interoperability are enabling credential curation, dynamic credentials and learner agency.
Their topics of discussion include:
01:00 - Learning Vault’s Journey and Mission
03:40 - The Digital Credential and Digital Badging Landscape and Drivers of Future Growth
08:17 - How Wider Awareness of Digital Credentials and Adhering to Standards is Supporting Learner Agency
12:39 - The Critical Elements of Truly Portable, Internationally Verifiable Credentials
17:13 - How Lifelong Skills Recognition and Credential Curation is Becoming the New Hiring Signal
23:58 - How Different Sectors and Organisations Credential the Soft and Domain Specific Skills Mix
28:38 - How QVault Maximised Interoperability and Enabled Dynamic Digital Credential Creation
34:04 - Upcoming Projects - Making Skills Accessible and Meaningful to Empower Learners on a Global Scale
Credentials just got personal - Unleash the power of your skills data and personal credentials
Credentialate is the world’s first Credential Evidence Platform that helps discover and share evidence of workplace skills.
Find out more at: edalex.com/credentialate
Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edalex
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In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Professor Mark Brown, Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University have a wide-ranging discussion on the European approach to micro-credentials. Their discussion explores the mindset that education is a 'public good' in Europe, how micro-credentials support lifelong learning in that setting and his experiences in helping to establish a whole-of-Europe framework.
Note: This discussion was first published about a year ago as a way of looking back at how far we've come in this fast-moving sector.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 1:07 - Summary of the European approach and definition of micro-credentials
- 7:38 - Building the European micro-credential roadmap - current and future
- 12:32 - The drivers of micro-credential development in European countries
- 16:28 - Considerations when co-creating micro-credentials with industry partners
- 22:07 - Real-world example of micro-credential co-creation with industry
- 24:30 - Storage, verification and portability of micro-credentials and digital credentials
- 30:29 - The impact of true innovation disrupting the traditional learning eco-system
- 36:38 - Having an ethos of 'education as a public good' fosters diversity and transformation
Visit Edalex.com to read the full transcript and more resources.
In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Dr. Naomi Boyer, Executive Director, Digital Transformation at Education Design Lab, explore how we can all use vision, collaboration, and technology enablement to tackle wicked challenges in the skills ecosystem.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 1:57 - How the Lab is Tackling Wicked 21st Century Skills Challenges
- 5:39 - Skills and Competency Visibility and Learner Equity for the New Majority
- 8:34 - Co-design and Collaboration Projects at the Lab Supporting Learners to Earners
- 14:40 - Verifying and Validating a Learner's Life and Working Experiences With 'XCredit'
- 17:33 - How Others Can Leverage the Lab's Resources and Build on Their Activities
- 21:55 - Technology Enabled Human Effort - Underpinning Skills Ecosystem Data
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In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Jeffrey Lehrer, National RTO Compliance Manager from Scouts Australia, discuss the challenges and opportunities around aligning non-formal learning to formal learning pathways for both their youth members and adult volunteers. They also discuss what youth organisations globally are doing to help participants gain recognition of transferable skills learnt through their programs, to be used as credits towards getting into the course they want or when looking for work.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 0:50 - Informal, Non-formal and Formal Learning Within Scouts Australia
- 6:55 - Evidence of Learning and the Complexity of Mapping and Alignment
- 10:02 - Building Tools for the Learner to Articulate Their Skills and Competencies
- 12:10 - The Rio Declaration on Non-Formal Learning From Global Youth Organisations
- 15:53 - Recognition of Learning Involves a Translation Piece - the Scouts Australia Example
- 20:38 - Key Solutions for Recognition of Non-formal to Formal Learning Pathways
- 25:19 - The Role of Policymakers in Recognising Non-formal Education Across All Sectors
- 34:38 - Next Steps in Creating Non-formal to Formal Pathways
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In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Doris Zahner, PhD from the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) discuss authentic assessment of essential skills for career success, such as critical thinking, problem-solving and written communication. Zahner discusses how authentic assessment accurately measures critical skills, the evidence of authentic assessments that is provided to educators and learners and how different institutions use attainment of critical skills data.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 1:33 - Assessing in-demand critical skills and connecting learners to hiring managers
- 3:09 - How authentic assessment effectively and accurately measures critical skills
- 5:55 - Standardised authentic assessments vs customised assessments
- 7:01 - What evidence of authentic assessments is provided to educators and learners?
- 8:55 - How do institutions use attainment of critical skills data?
- 10:33 - How does personalised evidence support CAE's authentic assessments?
- 14:13 - How a broad range of institutions use authentic assessments
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In this conversation style interview, Dan McFadyen and Martin Bean, Founder and CEO of the Bean Centre, explore a how education, industry, society and technology are converging to embrace and empower alternative credentials.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 1:40 - The Intersection of Factors Making Lifelong Learning an Imperative
- 4:49 - The Importance of Aligning Multi-Sector Initiatives to Maximise the Power of Alternative Credentials
- 10:28 - How Rich Skills Descriptors are Providing the Common Language Needed in the New Global Economy
- 15:04 - Strengthening Cross-Sector Connections to Enable Integrated and Flexible Learning Pathways
- 19:47 - How Highly Mobile Digital Badges are Delivering Rich Verification and Evidence of Skills
- 21:35 - Blending Real-World Experiences Into Traditional Education and the Impact on Graduate Employability
- 28:28 - Australia’s Position in the Global Knowledge Economy and the Vision of The Bean Centre
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In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Emeritus Professor Beverley Oliver discussed Oliver's research, thoughts and insights on rethinking employability after the release of her Whitepaper in late 2020. She also provides further context around her recommendation that education providers focus on 3 factors that signal employability to their learners.
Please note: this conversion was first published about a year ago as a way of looking back at how fast we've come in this fast moving sector.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 0:46 - Defining Employability in Today's World
- 2:46 - An Untested Factor - Signalling Employability to Learners
- 6:15 - The Factors That Signal Employability
- 7:14 - How Education Providers Can Increase Their Employability Signals
- 9:20 - Understanding the Intersection of Skills, Learning Pathways and Employability
- 11:25 - Examples of How Learners Can Utilise Transferable Skills
- 13:34 - Increasing Employability - 3 Key Factors for Education Providers to Focus On
- 14:19 - Key Factor 1 - Defining and Measuring Employability
- 17:16 - Key Factor 2 - Enhance Employability Signals
- 18:15 -Key Factor 3 - Update Curriculum to Include an Employability Lens
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In this Edalex Podcast episode, Dan McFadyen and Mark Keough, Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic Learning, discuss a fresh take on ethical and machine learning imperatives to create truly learner-centric micro-credentials.
Their topics of discussion include:
- 1:38 - Micro-Credentials in the Vocational Sector and the Relevancy of Existing Education and Jobs Descriptions
- 7:05 - The Importance of Helping Learners From all Education Backgrounds Identify and Talk to Their Skills
- 11:35 - Recognition of Prior Learning and Tracking the Capability Progression of Lifelong Learners
- 17:40 - Exploring Rich Skills Descriptors and Machine Learning Through OSN Skill Collaboratives
- 21:20 - The Ethical Framework Imperative When Using Machine-Readable Skills Data
- 30:27 - Intrinsic Learning’s Current and Future Projects and Global Efforts in Support of the Future of Work
Visit Edalex.com to read the full transcript and more resources.