Design for Life: Digital badging - skills validation for the 21st century - RSA

Design for Life: Digital badging - skills validation for the 21st century

Fellowship events / Design for Life series

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The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom

  • Design
  • Skills
  • Creative Institutions and Systems
  • Fellowship

The world as it is: fragile, unbalanced, degenerative. The world as it could be: resilient, rebalanced, regenerative. Explore with us how particular perspectives on challenge and change can help build flourishing futures for people, places and the planet. 

In this interactive events series, we share insights from the RSA’s Design for Life mission, including six perspectives we consider core to regenerative change: systemic, imaginative, adaptive, collective, long-time and authentic. How might we invite these perspectives into all our work to transform our economic, social and environmental systems to be more conducive to life? 

We spotlight where these perspectives are being applied within a range of work-in-progress interventions by the RSA, as well as by our Fellows and partners to imagine and pursue better futures. Join us to discuss what we’re doing, what we’re learning, and what shows up in your own changemaking work. 

In the 19th century, the RSA invented the modern exam. Now we're championing a 21st century innovation to validate the skills and capabilities that exams miss.  

At this event, Tom Kenyon (Head of Enterprise Design) will share insight into the RSA’s work with partners Badge Nation on recognising the skills that aren’t well captured by exams. 

Digital badges provide a detailed digital record of learning that is valuable for learners, employers and learning providers. For the last four years, The RSA and Badge Nation have worked together to recognise learning across the Cities of Learning interventions (and beyond) with over 600 employers, local authorities, charities and learning institutions.  

Guest speaker and RSA Fellow, Jonathan Clitheroe (Director, Badge Nation), will share his insights into the opportunities digital badges present for organisations and institutions, how these benefit learners of all ages and how you can get badging. Tom Kenyon will share information about The RSA’s new research and convening work into standards for badges and other digital credentials, and the potential to scale the use of permanent digital records of learning for everyone. 

Presentations from our speakers will be followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion.

We welcome all changemakers who are interested from different fields and disciplines, within and beyond our RSA Fellowship community.

Taking part

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Taking part in-person

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Taking part online

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Upcoming London Fellowship events

  • Design for Life: Social connections

    Fellowship events / Design for Life series

    The Coffee House (RSA House) and Online via Zoom

    Ollie Burrows, Interim Director of Research and Learning, will share how US research is showing the economic benefits of cross class connections, and how we are replicating this in the UK to surface new approaches to social mobility grounded in community needs.

  • An exploration: how to nurture biodiversity

    Fellowship events

    Prince Philip Room, RSA House, London WC2N 6EZ

    Join us for this interactive Fellow-led event with Rob Percival FRSA (Head of Food Policy, Soil Association) in conversation with Bel Jacobs FRSA, discussing the threats to biodiversity and what we can do to address them. Then take part in the Biodiversity Collage, a collaborative workshop learning how balanced ecosystems work.

  • Creative expression in the LGBTQ community

    Fellowship events

    Tavern Room, RSA House WC2N 6EZ, London

    This June, the Fellow-led LGBTQ Network 2023-24 series continues with its exploration of performance, song and dance.

Other upcoming events you can attend as an RSA Fellow

  • South East virtual coffeehouse 2024

    Online

    Every month, join us online over a Friday lunchtime to discover changemakers from across the South East region, be inspired and learn from each other.

  • RSA Fellowship Townhall

    Online

    CEO Andy Haldane will be answering a few questions from Fellows, we will be discussing a wide range of issues, and providing updates on our Capabilities for Life intervention.

  • RSA Bristol meetup

    Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, University of Bristol BS8 1LN

    An RSA Bristol meetup at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, featuring lighting talks on different topics and an update about Bristol’s involvement in the RSA’s Student Design Awards.