MPLAN invites you to view our online workshop RPL and Micro-credentials Webinar from Wednesday, November 25, 2020 from 9:00-11:00 a.m., on recognizing learning through micro-credentialing and other kinds of digital badges.
Main presenter, Don Presant, President of Learning Agents, Inc., will introduce the topic of micro-credentialing and badging nationally and internationally.
Lauren Waples, Manager, Academic Quality and RPL, Red River College of Applied Arts Science and Technology, will speak about micro-credential guidelines and implementation at RRC.
Rebecca Brooks, Dean of Academic Programs, and Marnie Groeneveld, Acting Executive Director of Business Development and Strategic Initiatives, Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technologies, will speak about both the academic and business development sides of micro-credentialing at MITT.
View our online workshop RPL and Micro-credentials Webinar
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
9:00 – 9:05 Colin Russell – MPLAN Welcome and Introductions
9:05 – 9:50 Main Presenter – Don Presant, Micro-credentialing & badging
9:50 – 10:10 Lauren Waples, Micro-credentials at RRC
10:10 – 10:30 Rebecca Brooks and Marnie Groeneveld, Micro-credentials at MITT
10:30 – 10:50 Questions and Answers
10:50 – 11:00 Wrap up with Colin
Session Description
Join Don Presant for a fast-paced current snapshot of digital Open Badges as flexible tools for recognition. Learn how they are being used now, how they’re evolving and how you can incorporate them in your recognition practice. Open Badges are “smart” digital credentials that make skills and knowledge visible for learners and employers. These credentials can recognize formal, non-formal or even informal learning, ranging from high stakes micro-credentials to low stakes “alternative credentials”.
Open Badges are based on an international educational technology standard, which makes them portable tools for learner and worker transition. Educators and employers such as Red River College, IBM, Shopify and Save the Children are pioneering these flexible credentials in all sorts of innovative and agile ways for workforce development. Invented in 2011, Open Badges are hitting the mainstream in Canada in 2020 because they are “future skills friendly” tools for virtual engagement, learning and recognition in a rapidly changing, COVID-constrained world. They are seeing accelerating takeup by educators and employers across Canada and internationally. Governments of all types are actively developing policies and funding programs to help drive this innovative recognition standard forward.
Bio Don Presant is a leading expert and advocate of Open Badges as flexible digital credentials. Don helps educators, associations and employers develop authentic assessment and recognition programs using Open Badges. He is a founding member of the international Open Recognition Alliance at openrecognition.org, co-author of the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration and currently acts an Open Recognition Ambassador (badge). Don is President of Learning Agents and CanCred.ca, a Canadian cloud service for Open Badges. He is a longtime member of CAPLA and a former Chair of MPLAN.