Victoria EdTech Summit: Meet the exhibitors - Edalex

Tell us about the company 

Founded in 2016, Edalex develops technology solutions that extract hidden value from educational data to make it accessible and more meaningful.  

Credentialate is our newest product. It was informed by a multi-year research project at the University of New South Wales, where Edalex was the industry partner. Credentialate is a Credential Evidence platform. We unlock learner achievement data from an institution's current systems and provide a personal evidence record for learners that can travel with their digital badge or other forms of credential recognition. For institutions we provide data insights and reporting from an atomic to macro level around skills and competency data. 

openEQUELLA is a CODiE award-winning, open source platform that centrally houses teaching and learning, research, media and library content.  openEQUELLA has been deployed for copyright resource collections, research materials, managing and exposing materials through websites and portals, content authoring, workflow, institutional policy and organisational resources.  The platform is used by educational institutions globally, including universities, community colleges, TAFEs, K-12 departments, and corporate training providers.   

What initiatives are you working on currently 

Credentialate 

• Developing the best product to discover and share workplace skills from within an institutions own data ecosystem.
• Investigating the wicked problem of evidence of learning existing in multiple places in multiple forms and how to align that evidence to skills, competencies or capabilities. 
• Providing the best tool for learners to share their PERSONAL skills and competencies to get a job or get a better job. 
• Investigating how AI can enhance the discovery and sharing of workplace skills 
• Aligning skills and competency data to frameworks.

openEQUELLA 

• Enhancing usability through an overhaul of openEQUELLA’s UI is Edalex’s current priority.  This initiative ensures end users (educators, trainers etc) maximise the value of the content available to them.   
• The openEQUELLA roadmap is 100% client-driven, ensuring that other initiatives pursued meet any unmet client needs. 

What are the benefits for educational establishments using your product/s 

Credentialate 

• Institutions can provide their learners with a machine readable and verified record of their personal skills and competencies as achieved via their learning journey. 
• We provide institutions with skills and competency reporting that gives transparency, insights and tracking of skills and competency data from the atomic (element) level all the way to the macro (institution wide) level.
• We provide end to end management of the digital badging process, so institutions have visibility of not only those that have achieved mastery (and therefore have a digital badge) but those that did not achieve, and can therefore provide remediation. 
• We enable the unlocking of data from an institutions current platforms (ie LMS) to surface both domain specific and employability skills from within the curriculum.

openEQUELLA 

• Anywhere, anytime access to content.
• Control over your own content: Content is often siloed within institutions, stored across many disparate systems - openEQUELLA is a central storage location for any digital content. 
• Ability to reuse and repurpose content, enabling institutions to maximise their investment in content development.
• Support for open access initiatives, such as the storage of open educational resources. 
• Seamlessly integrates with other key platforms within an institution's ecosystem, such as the LMS, ensuring users can experience the benefits of a CMS without leaving the LMS.