Creating sustainable futures/Micro credentialing 1st meeting

When: Mon 16 May 2016 9:00AM NZST
Where: F223, Otago Polytechnic.

Summary of meeting and decisions

• Attendance: Jean Tilleyshort, Peter Harris, Hannah Sinclair and Wayne Mackintosh
• Purpose: To discuss micro credentialing and open badging for the CSF micro courses.
• Aim: The aim is to offer the following options for each micro courses:
  • Digital badge - Assessed on fee for service basis and / or
  • Certificate of Achievement in addition to the digital badge (will cost more due to additional administation)
  • Transcript credit - on successful completion of the assessments of the four micro courses, learners will qualify for transcript credt for the "Why sustainable practice" course in the Certificate of Sustainable Practice Programme.
• Note: Jean has had a follow up discussion with the OP Director: Quality.

Decisions

1. Confirmed that it is possible to issue an OP Mozilla Open Badge for each micro based on the course assessment on a fee for service basis.
2. OP technical team to liaise with the OERF lead software engineer to determine technology implementation.
3. Confirmed that appropriate identity validation is a required, eg RealME for NZ residents and short Skype call using government issued Photo ID for validation and to determine that the learner requesting the badge actually completed the assessment.
4. Will continue to investigate online proctoring solutions.
5. On successful completion of the 4 badges, learners can be enrolled in the EBS system which will enable OP to print Certificate of Achievement for the Course and/or transcript.
6. Note enrolment of learner in EBS is needed for academic credit, however in cases of students who do not generate government funding (EFTs), OP will not need all the mandatory fields in EBS to be completed. OP to investigate solution for managing this in the system.
7. There is agreement by all members that the OP quality standards for assessment must be maintained including the moderation of assessments in the same way as those for OP programmes.
8. Noted the need for OP to commence work on developing internal policy for micro-credentials and badges for approval. Policy will cover quality management, assessment, appeals, ID validation etc.
9. Hannah (or someone else if needed) will develop process maps so that the course developers will know where to point learners to register for assessment, payment etc.
10. Meeting with QEC, system developers, staff capability and OP Online will be scheduled to keep everyone in the loop.