Stephen Downes

This article summarizes some of the work being done by Ireland's National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), a research institute at Dublin City University (DCU), in the form of an interview with ITS DIRECTOR, Mark Brown. Highlights: a report on quality assurance in digital education for OECD; an Open Educational Resources (OER) project called ENCORE+; and Hacking Innovative Pedagogies (HIP), "where we are trying to rewild traditional models of higher education." The article as a whole focus on microcredentials and badges as well as open educational resources and practices.