Acquiring and Assessing Digital Competence using Micro-credentials

The platform will be open to the community and will be sustained by the community. Central to the project, is the analysis of the descriptors for the 5 competences into Learning Outcomes, which will be the building blocks for the micro-credentials. The platform will allow educators to contribute with learning content and assessment questions to the platform, where both (content and assessment questions) will be linked to micro-credentials. The system will assess the quality of the contributions, using a peer review methodology, statistics gathered by the system and users’ feedback. Learners wishing the issuance of micro-credentials, will be able to take a personalized assessment for a Digital competence area they wish to be assessed on and to state their preferred technologies (software, apps, Operating Systems they use daily). The system will deliver a Micro-credentials Transcript for the assessed competence, a learning path along with suggested short courses that deliver any pending LOs (micro-credentials not issued). The user will have the option to save the issued MCs in a Digital Skills Wallet. The learner can take the assessment on multiple occasions. The system will check the user’s Digital Skills Wallet, where micro-credentials already issued will be stored and will provide the questions which will aim to assess any credentials which will have not been issued yet.