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C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series

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The C3 Webinar Series aims to improve communications between those involved with creating, maintaining, discovering, distributing, and using competency data.   For this Network, "Competency" is broadly defined. Review the Open Competencies Network Competency Explainer to learn more.

Well-defined competencies are the cornerstone of what is taught in our schools, recruitment systems, and how learning objectives are defined to qualifications, credentials, job descriptions, and performance. The leaders of T3’s Open Competency Network and the Advancing Open Competencies workgroup are spearheading the C3 (Connecting Competency Communities) webinar series which provides an opportunity for educators, credentialing organizations, and employers to convene and learn how to align the competencies taught with those recognized in a credential with those needed for a job.

The C3 monthly webinar allows interested persons to learn from industry experts and futurists building the systems, processes, and technologies to ease the burden of creating, maintaining, discovering, distributing, and using competency definitions and frameworks. These webinars will:      

• Provide a safe environment for exchanging ideas to improve communications between those involved with creating, maintaining, discovering, distributing, and using competency definitions and frameworks.    
• Promote the benefits of well-defined competencies linked to courses, qualifications, credentials, assessments, job descriptions, and occupations.      
• Promote the understanding that competency definitions and frameworks should be well-defined, machine-readable, and tagged as discoverable and tradeable.

Don't miss out! Register, attend, learn, and enjoy this exciting monthly webinar series from the T3 Innovation Network.

C3 Webinar Series Hosting and Leadership

The Advancing Open Competencies (AOC) Workgroup hosts the C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series.

The planning for and facilitating of the series is being led by Eric Shepherd, President, Foundation for Talent Transformation.

• See the C3 Webinar Series Project Plan.
• See the T3 Hub page about the C3 Webinar Series.
• Join the C3 LinkedIn Group.
• Join the Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup.
• If you're interested in presenting, email Eric Shepherd, C3 Lead (eric.shepherd@talenttransformation.com) and Jeanne Kitchens, AOC Facilitator (jkitchens@credentialengine.org).

C3 Webinar Series Schedule and How to Learn More

The C3 webinar series is scheduled for the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Occasional, temporary adjustments may be made. 

Webinars are held @ 9 am, PT / 10 am, MT / 11 am CT / 12 pm, ET /  5 pm UTC / 5 pm UK on the dates listed below.

The best way to ensure you have the C3 Webinar Series on your calendar is to Register. Upcoming webinar information is provided and recordings are archived on this C3 Webinar Series wiki page. To receive emails that include information about the C3 Webinar Series along with updates from the Open Competency (OC) Network, please join the OC Network and/or the AOC Workgroup. If you're interested in contributing to technical advancement, join the Technical Advisory Group. To follow C3 Webinar Series information on social media, join the C3 LinkedIn Group.

Upcoming Webinar Topics

Register here for the C3 Webinar Series

2023 Webinar Dates

• 18-January-2023: Capturing and sharing achieved competencies as data
• 15-February-2023: Competency-based employment strategies
• 15-March-2023: Competency data standards
• 19-April-2023
• 17-May-2023
• 21-June-2023
• 19-July-2023
• 16-August-2023
• 20- September-2023
• 18-October-2023
• 15-November-2023

Upcoming Webinar Topics

Connecting Competency Communities, 15-February-2023: Competency-based Education and Career Pathways

Lisa Larsen with Education Design Lab's Community College Growth Engine Fund will share the successes and challenges working with community colleges to design and implement employer-validated micro-pathways. The micro-pathways are designed to connect low-wage and entry-level workers to in-demand jobs that pay at-or-above median wage and put them on a path toward a degree. Co-designed with learners and employers, micro-pathways are defined as 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.

Lorraine McKay and Mark Coulter with Human Resource Systems Group will reveal insights into competency management using real-world scenarios to explain how employers and the public sector maintain and use competency definitions and frameworks. This month's webinar will allow you to learn and discuss the challenges of merging similar competencies, version control, allowing users to produce derivatives, and using competency definitions and frameworks for recruiting and talent development. Lorraine and Mark will stimulate discussions on Competency-Based Interviewing to help recruiters and managers use competency descriptions to create job descriptions, ads, screening/interview questions, and pre-hire assessments. And finally, the conversation will turn to Competency-based Career Pathing and explain why hiring is one step - but talent development is the next.

Speakers:

• Lisa Larsen, Head of Community College Growth Engine Fund with Education Design Lab (LinkedIn)
• Lorraine McKay, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer with Human Resource Systems Group (LinkedIn)
• Mark Coulter, Director, Talent Management Solutions with Human Resource Systems Group (LinkedIn)

Archived Webinars

Following each C3 webinar, recordings are made available. A YouTube channel will also be used to share the recordings.

Connecting Competency Communities, 18-January-2023: Capturing and Sharing Achieved Competencies as Data

This webinar will focus on the importance and value of including competency descriptions with Learning and Employment Records.

• LearnCard, the open source digital wallet from Learning Economy Foundation, is being used across a number of contexts to store and measure learning progress. We’ll explore how these implementations leverage skills data, and how anyone might deploy the LearnCard SDK to interoperate within an open skills ecosystem.
• The North Dakota Digital Credentials team has a goal to remove all barriers, friction and costs associated with adopting digital verifiable credentials and issuing stackable micro-credentials to (L)Earners. We'll learn about the vital role competency data plays with connecting (L)Earners and employers.

Speakers:

• Duncan Cox, Vice President of Business Development at Learning Economy (LinkedIn)
• Kimberly Wilson Linson, Director of Credential Ecosystems at RANDA Solutions (LinkedIn)
• Tracy Korsmo, SLDS Program Manager at North Dakota Technology (LinkedIn)
• Joshua Marks, Senior Advisor at Public Consulting Group (LinkedIn)

Meeting Materials: Archived Webinar and Audio recordings, and PowerPoint Slides (PowerPoint and PDF).

Related Resources: These resources were shared by presenters and participants.

• LearnCard
  • learncard.com
  • docs.learncard.com
  • learncard.app
  • Metaversity Deck
  • learningeconomy.io
  • https://docs.learncard.com
  • https://docs.learncard.com/learn-card-sdk/learncard-bridge

• North Dakota Digital Credentials
  • North Dakota Transcript video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ikmgosexY6GzZYhaD8jZhaVMAPMjjDXg/view
  • Smart Resume video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gJMALyCwEt8IgPfDHurPqC0aib7GisI5/view 
  • Canvas Credentials Pathways
  • Credential Transparency Description Language
  • OpenSalt
  • Open Badges
  • Comprehensive Learner Record Standard
  • Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange

Connecting Competency Communities, 16-November-2022: Recommended Practices

This webinar focused on learnings from the process of publishing IEEE Recommended Practices for well-defined competencies with an emphasis on open competency data.

Speakers:

• Dennis Green, Principal (Founder) at South Arm Training (LinkedIn)
• Linda Steedman, Chairperson / Director at eCom Learning Solutions (LinkedIn)

Meeting Materials: Archived Webinar and Audio recordings, and PowerPoint Slides will be made available after the webinar.

Meeting Materials: Archived Webinar and Audio recordings, and PowerPoint Slides (PowerPoint and PDF).

Related Resources: These resources were shared by presenters and participants.

• Publications
  • eCampus Ontario Open Competency Tool Kit written by Dennis Green and Carolyn Levy (available under an open license)
  • Towards a 21st Century Personalised Learning Skills Taxonomy - Ward, Rupert; Philips, Oliver; Bowers, David; Crick, Tom; Davenport, James; Hanna, Paul; Hayes, Alan; Irons, Alastair and Prickett, Tom (2021). Towards a 21st Century Personalised Learning Skills Taxonomy. In: IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (Educon 2021), 21-23 Apr 2021, [Online] Vienna. (available under an open license)
• Data schemas for competencies
  • 1EdTech - Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) data standard - Competency framework and rubric data standard
  • Achievement Standards Network (ASN) - Competency and rubric data standard  
  • CEDS - Education data management standards including competencies
  • Credential Transparency Description Language (CTDL)/ CTDL ASN - Data standard to link learn and work ecosystems data including competencies
  • HR Open Standards - Data standards for human resource related data exchanges including competencies data
  • IEEE P1484.20.3 - Competency data standards - Status: In final stages of publication. Looking to move to ISO standard. This standard is extensible through other standards including: ASN, CTDL/ASN, and CASE.
  • Medbiquitous - Data standards for health professions and education including competencies
• U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Competency Frameworks published as CTDL linked open data
  • O*NET Competency Frameworks https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html#frameworks
  • Industry Competency Model Frameworks https://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/competencyframeworks.aspx
  • U.S. DOL Competency Frameworks ingested by the Credential Registry via the Credential Finder. Click the "Details" tab with any framework to see the raw data using CTDL JSON LD in the Credential Registry

Connecting Competency Communities, 19-October-2022: Communities of Practice Webinar

The second webinar of the C3 series focused on the challenges and solutions for developing competency standards for health professions and a global skills and competency framework for the digital world.

Speakers:

• Dr. Terence Ma, CEO and Consultant at PlaceNets Consulting (LinkedIn)
• Ian Seward, General Manager at SFIA Foundation (LinkedIn)

Meeting Materials: Archived Webinar and Audio recordings, and PowerPoint Slides (PowerPoint and PDF).

Connecting Competency Communities, 22-September-2022: Kickoff Webinar

This is the first of the monthly C3 Webinar Series providing an introduction to the vision for the series along with an introduction to the T3 Innovation Network, Open Competency (OC) Network, and the Advancing Open Competency)(AOC) Network hosting this series.

Speakers:

• Naomi Boyer, AOC Chair and Executive Director, Digital Transformation, at Education Design Lab (LinkedIn)
• Eric Shepherd, C3 Webinar Series Lead, Board Member | Director | Leader | Transformation | Future of Work | Still Learning (LinkedIn)
• Terence Ma, Open Competency Network Chair, Experienced medical educator and administrator. Thought leader. Anatomist. (LinkedIn)
• Jeanne Kitchens, AOC Facilitator, Chief Technology Services Office at Credential Engine (LinkedIn)

Meeting Materials: Archived Webinar and Audio recordings, and PowerPoint Slides