Learning. Skills. Recognition. Designed for what comes next.

Lifelong Learning Practice helps education providers, industry, government and community organisations design practical, scalable approaches to learning, microcredentials, digital badges and skills recognition.

Led by Wendy Palmer, the practice works at the intersection of lifelong learning, digital credentials, skills literacy and system change.

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Helping you make learning visible

The way people learn is changing. Skills are developed through work, study, volunteering, professional practice, community participation and lived experience, but too often those skills remain hidden.

Lifelong Learning Practice helps organisations design learning and recognition models that make capability visible, meaningful and trusted. This includes microcredential strategies, digital badge ecosystems, learner journey design, quality frameworks, skills literacy approaches and practical implementation support.

What I do

Strategy

Develop clear, practical strategies for microcredentials, digital credentials, skills recognition and lifelong learning.

Design

Create learning, assessment and recognition models that are learner-centred, evidence-rich and aligned to real-world capability.

Implementation
Capability Building

Support organisations to move from good ideas to workable systems, processes, governance and scalable practice.

Design and facilitate workshops, courses and resources that build confidence in microcredentials, skills literacy and digital recognition.

My current work brings together consulting, course design, sector engagement and practical experimentation in digital recognition.

I am developing FutureLearn courses on skills literacy and digital badges, working with the Commonwealth of Learning on microcredential quality and implementation, and supporting sector conversations through initiatives such as the Badge Sandpit, ePIC APAC and My eQuals Connect.

Focus areas:

  • Skills literacy: Helping learners recognise, articulate, evidence and communicate their skills across learning, work and life.

  • Microcredentials: Designing short-form learning and recognition models that are credible, useful and connected to pathways.

  • Digital credentials: Supporting badges, wallets, metadata and evidence-rich credentials that people can understand, trust and use.

  • Recognition ecosystems: Working across education, industry, government and community to make learning more visible and portable.

Where I'll be next

Badge Summit 2026, Boulder, Colorada: Supporting Pack Your Badges and the Badge Sandpit experience and speaking on digital credential design.

My eQuals Connect 2026: Brisbane. Speaking on visibility, skills literacy and digital credentials.

ePIC APAC 2026 Unlocking Human Potential, Melbourne: Serving on the organising committee for the inaugural regional summit on open recognition and lifelong learning.

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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

Confucius

Ready to make learning and skills more visible?

Microcredentials, badges and skills recognition can get messy quickly. I can help you cut through the noise, make sense of the options and design something that people can actually use.

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