{"id":99267,"date":"2026-09-29T13:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99267"},"modified":"2026-09-29T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:47:24","slug":"skills-validation-wont-scale-on-technology-alone-the-education-design-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/09\/29\/skills-validation-wont-scale-on-technology-alone-the-education-design-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills validation won\u2019t scale on technology alone [The Education Design Lab]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eddesignlab.org\/news-events\/skills-validation-wont-scale-on-technology-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Skills validation won\u2019t scale on technology alone<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from eddesignlab.org (also see educationdesignlab.org)<br \/>\n<em>New report by Education Design Lab explores what it takes to build skills-validation ecosystems that work for people \u2014 and at scale.<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eddesignlab.org\/news-events\/skills-validation-wont-scale-on-technology-alone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/eddesignlab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Validating-Skills-at-Scale-Hero-Image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%%\" height=\"75%%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\nAs employers, educators, and workforce systems move toward skills-based practices, the challenge is no longer simply issuing badges or building assessments. The real work is creating systems that help people demonstrate what they can do, earn credentials they understand and trust, and carry those signals into real opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Education Design Lab\u2019s new report, <a class=\"\" title=\" opens in a new window opens  PDF  file \" href=\"https:\/\/eddesignlab.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Validating-Skills-at-Scale-September-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Validating Skills at Scale: A Human + Tech Ecosystem View<\/a>, explores what it takes to make that possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Using the Lab\u2019s XCredit ecosystem as a reference model, the report follows a composite opportunity seeker through the full skills-validation journey: discovering an opportunity, selecting a skill, completing a performance-based assessment, receiving feedback, earning and sharing a credential, and navigating next steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skills validation won\u2019t scale on technology alone &#8212; from eddesignlab.org (also see educationdesignlab.org) New report by Education Design Lab explores what it takes to build skills-validation ecosystems that work for people \u2014 and at scale. . As employers, educators, and workforce systems move toward skills-based practices, the challenge is no longer simply issuing badges or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[823,855,480,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credentialing","category-skills","category-society","category-technology-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99268,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99267\/revisions\/99268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}