Services
Edalex offer a range of professional services to help your organisation make the shift to skills – from initial consultation to in-house training to full implementation services, we can get you started and provision you and your teams with the ability to act fast. Read why consultancy matters.
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).
Skills-first consultation and report
- In-depth consultation to identify what you want to recognise
- Increase understanding of processes and tech enablement
- Skills strategy report that can be used to champion a skills-first approach within an institution, mapping out next steps
Skills mapping
- In-depth consultation to understand your needs
- How to surface skills from a curriculum
- How to align those skills to assessments to measure achievement
- How to align skills to frameworks and other industry recognised data
RSD training and development
Informational training
- What is an RSD
- Introduction to the RSD schema
- How to connect RSDs to curriculum or learning outcomes
- openRSD overview and use (free RSD depository platform)
Practical application
- Based on sources provided by the institution, Edalex will create RSDs to your specifications for you
Skills framework development and implementation
- In-depth consultation to understand your needs
- Build out a skills framework model – i.e. how to put skills into your environment
- Produce guides for learners, teachers and consumers
- Coordinate implementation in collaboration with internal teams
Micro-credential strategy review, development and implementation
- Strategic planning workshop
- Review of existing micro-credential program
- Micro-credential program implementation plan
- Micro-credential program design and development
Review and development of strategy and implementation plans for online learning
Learning platforms
- Course creation, reviewing, publishing
- Course development, delivery and administration user permissions
- SCORM compliance
- Assessment capability
Courses
- Content Quality Assurance
- Pedagogy
- Minimum Standards
- Accessibility
- Course Display
- Completion and Assessment
- Accreditation
- Digital Credentials
- Curriculum
Partnerships with learning / industry providers
- Onboarding / establishment of partners
- Course upload and updating , guides and templates
- Delivery and facilitation guides and support material
Learner UX
- Search, enrolment and payment options
- Learning experience and learner support
Custom strategic consulting services
What’s your vision? What are you wanting to achieve? How might we be able to help you?
If you believe there is something we can assist you with, reach out and we can develop a custom strategic consulting service to fit your need.
Meet our services team
Dan McFadyen
Co-Founder and Managing Director
For the past 20+ 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. Since 2016 Dan has served as the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Edalex, tackling skills- and employability-related challenges by supporting the definition, development and recognition of skills through education. On a personal level, as a dual American-Australian citizen, he struggles daily with the conflict between raising his two children on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or vegemite.
Margo Griffith
Principal Skills Consultant
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 over 20 years. She is passionate about the positive impact of technology within education and the enablement of lifelong learning and mobility. Margo co-convenes a Cross Sector Community of practice around Microcredentials in Australia and sits on the Executive of the International Council of Badges and Credentials (ICoBC). She writes blog posts around challenges surrounding the learn-to-earn journey. Margo is currently exploring Systems Thinking concepts and their relation to the emerging skills ecosystem.
Melinda O’Halloran
Senior Project Manager
Melinda has 18 years’ experience in people and outcomes management at program, project and business operations levels and is qualified in the application of AIPM, Agile and Critical Path methodologies. She has enjoyed long-term project engagements in multiple industries and has proven leadership skills and the ability to unite teams comprising diverse resources. Melinda was the Co-Lead of Edalex’s collaboration with the Education Design Lab and the University of Melbourne, for a recently completed OSN Skill Collaborative project.
Erik Styles
Learning Designer
A learning designer and consultant with over 15 years of experience creating online learning solutions for higher education clients worldwide. Erik specialises in working with instructors and subject matter experts to design and build engaging, outcome-driven learning experiences.
Don Presant
Skills Consultant
Don Presant has been a digital recognition innovator for lifelong learning since 2003. He advocates for open lifewide recognition, consults on digital credentialing, and provides CanCred, a leading Canadian digital badge service. A champion of ePortfolios and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) since 2003, Don chaired the Manitoba PLA Network (MPLAN) (2008-2010), received MPLAN’s PEARL Award (2013), and introduced Open Badges at ePIC in 2012. He co-directs ePIC, co-authored the 2016 Bologna Open Recognition Declaration and the 2024 Paris Declaration on the Equality of Recognition, and advised UNESCO on micro-credentials (2021). He serves on the boards of CAPLA and LLLP’s Validation Task Force. As a consultant and technology provider, Don has advised and supported credentialing initiatives for post-secondary institutions and organizations like the Canada School of Public Service, Doctors Without Borders, and the UN’s ITC-ILO.
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