RESOURCES
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Templates & Examples
Below are a variety of templates, examples and links to resourses that may be of assistance as you complete this guide:
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Resource Links
If you’re just starting out on your skills journey, you can find useful information here:
For more general skills terminology, we refer you to the following lists:
Learn more about rich skill descriptors (RSDs):
Learn more about Credentialate:
Education Design Lab’s Durable Skills Microcredentials
An example of durable skills with sub-competencies and descriptions
The world’s largest open access library of rich skill descriptors (RSDs)
Rich Skill Descriptor Standards Implementation Recommendations
An overview of the RSD schema
Possible output of education technologies, displaying skills and sub-competencies
Australian Skills Classification
An example of a national skills classification system
Australian Curriculum General Capabilities
An example of a national framework for durable skills in K-12
Skills for the Information Age (SFIA)
The global skills and competency framework for the digital world
European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO)
The European multilingual classification of skills, competences and occupations
Durable Skills Advantage Framework (America Succeeds)
An employer-generated common lexicon for essential non-technical skills
Pathsmith (Commercial durable skills framework)
Hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors on almost 1,000 occupations covering the entire U.S. economy
National Foundation Skills Framework 2022 to 2032
An example of a vocational education and training (VET) framework
An example of an industry specific skills and competency framework
A non-profit mapping the credential landscape with consistent information and resources that empower individuals to find the best pathways
UNESCO AI Competency Framework
For teachers – defines the knowledge, skills and attitudes that teachers should possess to understand the roles of AI
For students – will articulate the knowledge, skills and attitudes students should acquire to understand and actively engage with AI
What Are Rich Skill Descriptors (RSDs)?
Answers the question – what are rich skill descriptors (RSDs)?
Outlines the benefits that rich skill descriptors provide to multiple stakeholders
How do RSDs Fit in the Skills Ecosystem?
An explanation of where RSDs fit in the skills ecosystem and how they enable data granularity, mobility and portability
How to Search for RSDs in openRSD
A step-by-step guide for how to search for RSDs on the openRSD platform
Lightcast is the pioneer and market leader in global labor analytics
An open resource of structured skills data leveraged to promote a more equitable skills-driven hiring and education ecosystem
Review checklist
Expand on the items below to check you have completed each step:
- Create a list of the skills you wish to recognise.
- Create a list of the elements (abilities and capabilities) you want to recognise via a digital credential.
- List all of the elements (from the attributes list) that make up the skill. Review the list to ensure each element provides a clear context and understanding of what the skill entails. These elements should contribute to overall competence in the skill.
- Ensure each element has a description – skill statements that articulate the observable / measurable behaviour to be demonstrated by the student.
- Identify where and how in the curriculum the elements are taught and assessed.
- Ideally these assessments exist in your data source (LMS or equivalent) so they can be connected to score data from them.
- Map elements to assessments and determine awarding levels.
- Decide the awarding model you would like to implement for your skill. Does your institution have a mastery program with levels of mastery that can be applied to this model?
- Create an Evidence Matrix rubric that includes the elements, their descriptions, the awarding criteria and the assessment methods.
- Note that the more granular the awarding criteria, the more element descriptions, which reflect the awarding criteria levels, will be required.
- You will need to complete the above steps for each Credential you wish to award against.
- Align (map) your skills to publicly available Framework data to provide meaning and context.
- Align (map) skill elements to standardised skill definitions to provide clarification and labour market data.
- GET HELP PUTTING IT INTO ACTION
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All of our strategic consulting services can be conducted as platform agnostic (independent of our platforms), or in coordination with our skills-based platforms (Credentialate and openRSD).