ODEM makes education and employment more affordable, accessible, verifiable and transferable on a global scale.
ODEM’s Three Key Offerings: 1. Digital Verified Credentials Using Ethereum blockchain and IPFS, ODEM records and stores decentralized versions of education, employment and experience credentials. 2. Skill-matching Engine ODEM leverages machine learning to create a user-friendly, skill-matching interface for users to share current and desired skills and occupational experience and aspirations for targeted lifelong learning and employment. 3. Trust Network / Marketplace Educational organizations, students, employers and educators can participate in an on-demand, trust network to quickly access, offer and match the most timely and in-demand education and employment opportunities.
ODEM Skill-Print Engine integrates data frameworks like ESCO and O*NET into a common usable language
ODEM Skill-Print Engine gives users an easy interface to capture current and desired skills and occupations
ODEM Digital Portfolio allows users to claim verified education and experiences to share with employers
ODEM leverages blockchain transactions to allow educational institutions to digitally sign credentials students can share with employers Digitization of student’s certificate includes hash address owned by signatories verifying its authenticity.
Educators can create and immediately launch courses on the ODEM marketplace and issue verified certificates
THE ODEM ECOSYSTEM
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ODEM vets and connects all participants for a better education and employment ‘supply chain’ using blockchain technology Educational Institutions ○ Share verified credentials onto the immutable ODEM blockchain Students ○ Access and crowdsource affordable skills-based learning Educators ○ Connect directly with students and employers to teach in-demand expertise for the rapidly-changing workforce Employers ○ Tap highly-qualified, verified candidates to close the skill gap ○ Access verified employee records for workforce discovery ○ Source educators for internal training
ODEM is reinventing how data is monetized by sharing revenue with users and credential providers. Data Profit Share Like Amazon Kindle and Spotify, ODEM rewards its students and credential providers for sharing data on the ODEM Trust Network. Every time a verified credential is viewed by an employer, a percentage of employer subscriptions is paid as a royalty to both students and credential providers.
ODEM offers high schools, colleges and universities the solutions to bridge the growing education and employment gap. High Schools ● Access the necessary courses to fill the gap for seniors to finish their high school year ● Provide digital, verified credentials for your high school seniors ● Participate in a new, fast-tracked, streamlined college admissions process through easy sharing of these digital credentials Colleges and Universities ● Create an online instance of your college or university instantly with fully verified digital credentials ● Onboard new curriculum to future-proof your school and prepare students for drastic shifts in skill requirements in the new economy ● Build new enrollment through international and underserved student populations
ODEM’s blockchain credentialing and skill-matching engine delivers an education and employment marketplace that meets the needs of today’s global workforce. 1. Get Recruited - present yourself to higher ed ● Verify your secondary school experience and share with interested colleges and universities 2. Get Educated - online, in-person or blended ● Connect directly to colleges, universites, skill-based training ● Complete employment and professional certification ● Crowdsource your educational and professional needs 3. Get Verified and own your records ● Academic, professional and employment certifications with skill-coding 4. Get Employed - participate in the new economy ● Apply for jobs based on ODEM recommendations using skill-matching ● Share your credentials and get skill-matched with employers
ODEM Educational Organization Onboarding Process 1. Identify and Onboard Certification Track ● Example Initial track(s) selected: Manufacturing, ESL, Medical Coding ● Skill-code certification ● Invite students and alumni to claim certificates and participate in continuing education 2. Offer Continuing Education ● Re-engage alumni for continuing education ● Provide re-certification tracks for graduates ● Close the skill-gap with non-credentialed bootcamps and skill-based training 3. Engage Employers for Workforce Placement ● Create your skillprint for current and desired skills and occupational aspirations ● Apply for jobs based on ODEM recommendations using skill-matching ● Share your credentials and get skill-matched with employers
ODEM skillprint Engine: Building a Common Language ODEM has developed a unique skill-matching machine learning technology that integrates skill and occupation data sets from any source as well as serve these classifications up to users in a logical and meaningful manner. ODEM's skill-matching methodology is built on the premise that we expect ODEM participants to be lifelong learners and change jobs and careers many times in their lifetime. ODEM has created a way to take complex and sophisticated taxonomies like those of ESCO and O*NET and use machine learning to consolidate them into a common language. This is an innovative breakthrough that will help skill-match students to education and employment on a global scale. This common language allows users to make logical selections and create meaningful profiles of their current and desired experiences and learning. ODEM leverages AI technology to break down words and phrases from these data sets and create meaningful relationships for users and present them with targeted education and employment opportunities.
ODEM skillprint leverages Google’s word2vec technology ● A learned embedding model that places courses, jobs and students into a shared space which enables us to make meaningful comparisons ● An application of word2vec [1] techniques for courses, jobs, employers, educators and students
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