FutureLearn Courses

Build your understanding of skills literacy, recognition and digital credentials through short online courses designed for educators, learning designers, career practitioners and lifelong learners.

These courses help connect the practical activities in the Badge Sandpit to broader questions about how people recognise, articulate, evidence and share their capabilities.

Make lifelong learning and skills visible in schools

How can you help students recognise the valuable skills they’re developing every day? Students gain skills constantly but often cannot name or explain them when applying for jobs, further education, or other opportunities.

This course shows teachers how to surface the hidden curriculum, build skills literacy, and equip students for future pathways. You’ll learn practical, low-effort strategies that work in any classroom to make transferable skills visible and help students articulate them confidently.

A university degree signals knowledge, but does it clearly communicate what a learner can actually do?

As expectations around employability continue to evolve, higher education is being challenged to better articulate the skills students develop throughout their studies. Yet many of these capabilities remain hidden, difficult to evidence, or inconsistently recognised.

This course invites you to rethink how skills are understood, surfaced, and valued within higher education.

Lifelong Learning Edge

The Lifelong Learning Edge is Wendy Palmer’s weekly blog exploring micro-credentials, digital badges, skills visibility, recognition systems and the changing relationship between learning and work.

Read reflections, practical insights and emerging ideas from across the global skills and credentials ecosystem.