"Basic Training"
This ready made online learning platform is used to launch the Lab's 21st century skills micro-credentials.
What is vsbl?
This Lab project allows for employers and employer partners to determine which Micro-Credentials to offer by identifying which 21st century skills are most important for any given job
What is the T-Profile?
This free instructional design resource (that includes links, files, and videos) when deployed in conjunction with the Lab’s assessments allows for organizations to create their own Micro-Credential courses.
What is the Toolkit?
This technology partner replaces the need for facilitator based assessments of learners with virtual reality-based auto-assessment scenarios, thus allowing for scale.
What is Talespin?
What is Digital Transformation Team?
The end result of years of research and on-the-ground work with academia, students, employers, assessment providers, and technologists, and consists of nine micro-credentials and the four corresponding sub-competencies for each
What is the 21st Century Skills Competency Framework?
This Lab initiative uses Micro-Credentials delivered via the vsbl platform to validate existing skills gained from informal learning and life experience.
What is XCredit?
This vsbl delivery model allows learners to access vsbl when it is convenient for them.
What is asynchronous?
This technology partner helps auto-assess learners through smart chat technology designed to resemble a text exchange.
What is Muzzy Lane?
These components make up the Lab's learning philosophy.
What are learn, practice & contribute, assess, and reflect?
These nine 21st century skills make up the Lab's suite of micro-credentials
What are Collaboration, Creative Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Empathy, Initiative, Intercultural Fluency, Oral Communication, Resilience, and Self Directed Learning?
This unfunded Lab initiative will focus on equitable ways opportunity seekers can market themselves and their credentials in the digital space.
What is Resume of the Future?
This delivery model requires learners to participate at established days and times.
What is synchronous?
Employer validated assessments within vsbl modules designed to assess skills in a workplace- based scenario
What is "proving ground?"
Although not a gymnast, because I possess this skill, I am flexible and self-aware, and I learn from experience and am solutions-oriented
What is Resilience?
A shareable, verifiable, stackable, and discoverable asset earned after successfully completing a vsbl Micro-Credential course.
What is a digital badge?
DAILY DOUBLE!
Unlike badges earned through the vsbl platform, which are issued by partner institutions, badges earned through the XCredit initiative are issued by this organization.
What is Education Design Lab?
This deployment method allows organizations to use vsbl without any technical integration
What is hosted?
Though not required, this helps ensure consistency of delivery of Micro-Credentials on the vsbl platform.
What is facilitator training?
This gateway to community college transformation involves two or more stackable credentials, including a 21st century skill micro-credential, that are flexibly delivered to be achieved within less than a year and result in a job at or above the local median wage.
What is a micro-pathway?
A narrowly focused learning and/or assessment experience, done online, typically in under a year, which verifies that a specific set of competencies have been achieved.
What is a Micro-Credential?
This Lab project seeks to help address the most common question organizations have about the Lab's Micro-Credentials - do employers really value them?
What is the Data Collaborative?
This option allows organizations to deploy the vsbl platform from within their own Learning Management System
What is LTI or LTI integration?
In this age of smart devices, this feature of vsbl "meets learners where they are."
What is mobile compatibility?
The concept of an interoperable, single source, data platform that allows credentials to be brought into and out of it
What is a learner wallet, or certified learner record?