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DigitalSkillsWallet

Acquiring and Assessing Digital Competence using Micro-credentials

Duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.08.2026 (44 months)
Partners:
  • EDITC, Cyprus
  • OMEGATECH, Greece
  • UNINETTUNO, Italy
  • UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS DIN GALATI, Italy
  • MUNSTER TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, Ireland
  • CYPRUS HOTEL ASSOCIATION, Ireland
  • DIMITRA, Greece
  • MMC, Cyprus
  • CYPRUS COMPUTER SOCIETY, Cyprus
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Authority: European Commission
Program:    ERASMUS+

Description

The project aims to develop an eco-system supported by a digital platform for the Acquisition and Assessment of Digital Competence with the use of micro-credentials on the 5 digital competence areas as per the DigiComp framework. The platform will be open to the community and will be sustained by the community. Central to the project, is the analysis into LOs of the descriptors for the 5 competences (Information and Data Literacy, Communication and Collaboration, Digital Content Creation, Safety and Problem Solving) which will be the building blocks for micro-credentials. The platform allows educators (ICT trainers, teachers and training institutions) (the authors) to contribute with learning content and assessment questions to the platform, where both (content and assessment questions) are 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 based on the Digital competence area (1 to 5) they wish to assess and they will state their preferred technologies (software, apps, platforms/Operating Systems they use on a daily basis). The system will deliver a Micro-credentials Transcript for the assessed competence, a learning path along with suggested courses that will delivered those LOs still pending (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 are stored and will provide those questions aiming to assess credentials not issued yet.