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Competency Validation: Credential Designer

Proof that you design credentials to standard in live work.

  • Competency
  • L3 Enable
  • Validation
  • Credential design
  • ICB-V01
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Why this course

Competency only shows in context. This validation gives practitioners a credential that employers and professional bodies can rely on, without pretending that a course delivers it.

What you will be able to do

  1. Show that credentials you designed in live work meet the ICoBC design standard.
  2. Explain your design decisions and their effect on readers and earners.
  3. Show improvement based on feedback or data.

Modules

  1. Portfolio guidance
  2. Selecting evidence
  3. Preparing for the professional discussion

Assessment

Portfolio of two live credentials with outcome data; attestation by line manager or client; 45-minute professional discussion with an ICoBC assessor.

Badge evidence: Portfolio; attestation; discussion record. Valid for 3 years.

Prerequisites: ICB-P01 | ICB-P02

Who it is for

  • Companies and employers
  • Education and providers
  • Associations and policy

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkCRDSskillL3levelCstage

Credential design (CRDS, VRITE pillar Rigor)

Related skills: Assessment and evidence, Skills taxonomies and alignment. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Work-based validation module for L&D and corporate academy leads. Badge aligns to ICSF CRDS L3 (SFIA 4) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as role-readiness evidence for 3 years.

In education

Micro-credential of 15 h notional workload (about 0.6 ECTS), indicative EQF 5 to 6, assessed by work-based portfolio, attestation and professional discussion. Stacks into pathway PW02.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 15 h (about 0.6 ECTS). Level: ICSF L3, EQF 5 to 6 (indicative). Type of assessment: work-based portfolio, attestation and professional discussion. Form of participation: Work-based; professional discussion in person or online. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: ICB-P01; ICB-P02.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Part of these pathways

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Rigor.

AI dimension: Disclosure of AI use in portfolio artefacts.

Improve this course

The course is open on GitHub in LiaScript format under CC BY 4.0. View the source or read how to suggest a change.