Dublin City University (DCU) and Dublin-founded digital credentials pioneer Digitary, have announced a strategic partnership launching a new micro-credentialing initiative to recognise the learning of students.
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Micro-credentials are smaller units of assessed learning recognised by a digital badge or other forms of digital certification and they are seen to address the huge demands of upskilling and re-skilling required by both industry and employees. They provide many benefits to learners such as short lead-in times to certification, flexibility in learning, supporting the work/life balance and by providing skill provision in new and emerging areas within sectors and society. As part of this partnership DCU will issue Badges using Digitary’s Badges Platform.
An important feature of the announcement is that many of DCU’s new micro-credentials can be stacked together, to realise greater and more focused learning within a particular competence or skill area. Learners will now have a single digital wallet that will include all of their official certificates, documents and the badges earned throughout their DCU learning journey. Additionally, learners will be able to easily share these credentials with third parties such as employers to meet their employment goals.
Digitary is a world leader in digital certification of academic achievements, and a trusted provider of secure verified documents and data to learners, educational organisations, and employers globally. To date Digitary has issued over 4 million credentials and empowered more than 1.5 million learners worldwide.
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The new initiative will complement and build upon DCU’s traditional academic award provision and enable learners to access their official credentials, in a single trusted repository powered by Digitary technology and to share these credentials with third parties to support career progression.
DCU is home to the National Institute of Digital Learning (NIDL), recognised as a world leader at the forefront of research and the leading edge of new developments in digitally enhanced models of education including micro-credentials. Professor Mark Brown, Director of the National Institute of Digital Learning welcomed the announcement saying,
“We are delighted to further our partnership with Digitary to expand DCU’s commitment to deliver micro-credentialing solutions for learners and industry using new more flexible and stackable digital credentials. This strategic partnership enhances our leadership at the wider European level through the ECIU University initiative and our contribution to the new Skills Agenda for Europe to develop a European approach to micro-credentials.”
James Murray-Beckman, Chief Operating Officer, Digitary said,
“Digitary is honoured to extend our partnership with Dublin City University, integrating comprehensive and interoperable digital badging functionality into DCU’s implementation of Digitary’s Credentialing platform. We are thrilled to collaborate on such an important initiative to enhance the digital learning experience for all students.”
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