Micro-credentials in a Minute Episode 13: Why Governments are Getting Interested in Micro-credentials
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Each episode of the podcast will be about a minute long and address critical questions on micro-credentials, digital badges, learning pathways, digital wallets, and more!
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Episode 13: Why Governments are Getting Interested in Micro-credentials
In this episode of "Micro-credentials in a Minute," we asked the Founder and CEO of the Bean Center, Emeritus Professor Martin Bean CBE, how and why national governments are getting involved with micro-credentials and their implementation.
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Micro-credentials in a Minute Episode 13: Why Governments are Getting Interested in Micro-credentials
Robert Bajor: Hi, my name is Rob.
Martin Bean: And my name is Martin and we are micro-credential and digital badge experts.
Robert Bajor: Today I'm going to ask Martin, what are you seeing governments doing to intervene in this space? And why are governments getting interested?
Martin Bean: Hey, thanks Rob. You're listed as might've picked up, I have an Australian accent. So I'll talk a little bit about what my government is doing that I'm very proud of actually, uh, they're getting to work and they're building the next generation of our national skills library for employers and educators and individuals to have richer descriptions of skills.
Martin Bean: Uh, there then. Uh, funding and building a national micro-credential marketplace where micro-credentials can be exposed. But also where they can bring some standards and quality markers - to bear so people can understand the value of the micro-credentials. And then they're doing something really interesting Rob, they're sort of going one step further and they're creating a digital wallet for all of our citizens, so that when they're done our formal qualifications and our micro-credentials can be put into our, my gov wallet. And if we choose to do it, and that's a big, a big part of the ethics of this, Rob, I can expose those to potential employers, potential educators to my LinkedIn page, whatever I want to do, but, but they building those fundamental building blocks to enable skills-based hiring Rob.
Martin Bean: And that's why it matters.
Martin Bean: The world is moving to skills based hiring rather than defaulting to the traditional, um, the degree somebody studied or where they studied. And that makes sense because with this global skilling crisis that we have, and the war for talent, individuals need to be able to express themselves in more high resolution ways and employers need to find talent.
Martin Bean: Wherever talent is Rob.
Robert Bajor: I don't think I could possibly embellish on that answer. Thank you so much.
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