The Future-Ready CoLab
Working Future™ has joined with CapabilityCo to research and develop solutions that accelerate workforce development. This includes working with a global psychometric assessment providers to enhance how we identify and measure the non-technical, less visible but highly durable human capability required to drive long term employability and enterprise adaptive capacity. Developed and tested with Telstra to make its Nextgen workforce Future Ready the components include a diagnostic, data collection and measurement function, ways to personalise learning to an employee’s immediate needs, and the means to validate evidence of capability attainment in the workplace that leads to micro-credentials carrying credit entry into undergraduate and postgraduate diplomas and degrees.
Digital Media and Learning CoLab
Working Futures™ has been working with Cybermedia to research, design, develop and deliver high quality engaging digital learning content and authentic assessment experiences that target human and future leadership capabilities.
Authentic Assessment & Validation of Prior Capability Colab
Every micro-credentials for every human capability, at every level can carry credit entry into a university degree from diploma level to Master’s degree. Working Futures™ has been working with Capability.Co to streamline how the incremental attainment of credentials lead to new models of attaining a qualification while at work. We have been working with Torrens University of Australia, University of South Australia, Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre, 1Edtech and seven other global partners to use AI to automate and improve the collection, validation, and recognition of each person’s human capabilities attained through non-formal, informal and alternate learning pathways or experience. All verified capabilities and assessment evidence is processed and a the Credly platform is being used to generate globally portable digital credentials that provide both a credit entry into a formal qualification and a trusted personal, lifelong record.
Leadership Capabilities
Identifying and verifying the capabilities leaders need now and in the future is a major challenge for organisations. With technology disruption, radical changes in the mode and form of work, and globalisation effective leadership is essential. Working Futures™ has been working with:
- CLA, Future Leadership to promote progressive, sophisticated and rigorous thinking about assessing and developing leaders.
- University of Tasmania undertaking supervision of PhD candidates completing research into leadership capabilities and authentic assessment.
Capability Standards & Micro-Credentials
Traditional structured formal qualifications promote learning that is often more generalised, discipline based, and focused on knowledge transfer. It can be expensive and time-consuming if you only need part of the degree or wish to prioritise to meet immediate needs.
But qualifications can be disaggregated or built into micro-learning chunks and still can stack into the formal, macro-qualification. This occurs through micro-credentials which target specific learning or capabilities required in the future workplace. These forms of nano-degrees or micro-credentials offer a more personalised, efficient and cost-effective way to ensure your workforce are keeping their skills relevant and certified. Working Futures™ has been working with:
- Telstra and CapabilityCo to pilot and deploy a seamless service able to support Future Ready profiling and developing individuals, teams, and the workforce using the human capability standards.
- DeakinCo to identify future capabilities required in professional work and to develop a framework Deakin University can use to not only recognise professional capabilities, but to assure credit or enhanced entry into their post-graduate qualifications for those attaining a micro-credential.
- Credly to gather evidence, verify, and recognise the experience, achievements, formal learning or certificates achieved by an individual or group.
- Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) and Griffith University to identify better way to verify informal, non-formal or formal learning in young people and enhance the verification, credentialing and management of lifelong digital records using blockchain technologies.
- Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand to assess and recognise their member’s professional status while also opening opportunities to qualifications and careers.
- Engineers Australia to enhance the digital assessment, recognition and credentialing of competency attainment while mapping this progress to their member journey and formal qualifications.