Our colleagues have recently attended the Micro-Credentials Masterclass 2025 held at Algebra University in Zagreb from March 18th to 20th. The event was a gathering of educators, industry leaders, and regulators focused on the latest in micro-credentials.
The Masterclass series is a training opportunity in this rapidly developing field of educational technology. The presentations, discussions, and solutions and dilemmas presented by the micro-credential issuers, regulators, and industry partners significantly contributed to providing ammunition for the development of the DCP Open Badge Host services developed by BME. Major providers, such as the EDC certificate invented by EUROPASS, the Open Badge standard maintained by 1EdTEch, and the EduBadge developed by SURF in the Netherlands, provided developers guidance for effective further development, showcasing the modifications they are working on. The convergence of various and independently developing standards, and the role and harmonization of digital recognitions, took place in a professional environment where participants, as professional partners, coordinated the most important tasks for the coming year both content-wise and technically.
From BME’s side, we presented the stackability and language capabilities of the DCP Host built on the OB 2.0 standard, along with services pointing towards gamification methodology that will be one of the main foci in this year within the DISCO SMS project WP3 development.
