Thursday, 16 October 2025
12:00 – 1:00 PM AEDT
Duration: 60 Minutes
Where: Virtual (ZOOM)
Watch the webinar recording below, where Instructure’s Takis Diakoumis and Edalex’s Margo Griffith and Dan McFadyen explore a powerful partnership designed to enhance learner agency and elevate the recognition of skills.
00:14 – Introduction
03:52 – History of My eQuals
10:40 – How Credentialate Extends My eQuals Digital Badges
23:27 – What Optimising My eQuals Badges with Credentialate Truly Means for Learners
32:34 – Q&A
We’ll demonstrate how My eQuals + Credentialate allows you to:
- Transform My eQuals Badges into powerful, evidence-backed credentials
- Add rich context with our Personal Evidence Records (PERs), showcasing skills, assessments, and learning outcomes
- Create curated personal portfolios in My eQuals, backed by evidence that’s easily shareable
- Gain deep, actionable insights and reporting on learner attainment and program effectiveness
We will walk you through the integration and demonstrate what’s possible and how you can achieve it for your organisation.
Key Benefits:
This webinar is designed to provide you with practical, business-focused benefits that directly impact your work and your institution’s digital credentialing strategy. By attending, you will learn how to:
- Maximise Your My eQuals Investment – Discover how to leverage the My eQuals platform to its full potential. The webinar will demonstrate how Credentialate serves as a powerful add-on, unlocking advanced features and functionalities that can be applied to digital badging initiatives.
- Create More Meaningful and Verifiable Credentials – Move beyond basic badges and provide a rich narrative behind every achievement. You will see how the Personal Evidence Record (PER) transforms a simple badge into a comprehensive portfolio, making skills, knowledge, and achievements more transparent and valuable for both learners and employers.
- Streamline Processes and Gain Actionable Insights – Learn how to automate credential issuance, saving you valuable time and resources. The webinar will also demonstrate Credentialate’s robust analytics and reporting, giving you the data needed to make informed decisions and continuously improve your credentialing programs.
Panelists:
- Takis Diakoumis – Senior Director of Engineering, Instructure
- Margo Griffith – Principal Skills Consultant, Edalex
- Dan McFadyen – Managing Director, Edalex
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Takis Diakoumis A technology evangelist with 25 years of experience, Takis Diakoumis has built and led high-performing technical teams across diverse sectors, from finance and government to healthcare and higher education. Notably, he spearheaded the initiative for Australia’s first open MOOC platform. Takis thrives on building innovative and disruptive solutions that deliver exceptional user experiences. With a passion for emerging technologies like self-sovereign identity, he excels at translating complex concepts into compelling narratives. Driven by intuition and an authentic desire to drive innovation, Takis is dedicated to making significant contributions to the global digital credentialing ecosystem with Parchment. |
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Margo Griffith Margo’s in-depth knowledge and experience of skills, the skills ecosystem and digital credentials is the result of working in and with higher education providers and edtech leaders, nationally and internationally for 30+ years. She is passionate about the positive impact of technology within education and the enablement of lifelong learning, learner agency and mobility. Margo is a convenor of the Australian micro credentials Network and consults with Government, industry and education sectors around a skills first approach to learning and workforce. Her recent publications include “Creating the University of the Future: A Global View on Future Skills and Future Higher Education” (Contributor) (Springer 2024) and “Technology Enablement of the Skills Ecosystem” Naomi Rose Boyer and Margo Leanne Griffith (International Journal of Information and Learning Technology ISSN: 2056-4880, 2023). |
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Dan McFadyen For the past 25+ years, Dan has focused on enabling innovation in education powered by educational technology and long-term partnerships with educational institutions. This passion fuelled varied roles from a start-up developing the CODiE award-winning EQUELLA software to global educational powerhouses Blackboard and Pearson. |
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