Educause Report 2021 suggests that Microcredentials are quickly becoming a mainstay in Higher Education. The State University of New York defines Micro-credentialing as “programs of study that verify, validate, and attest those specific skills and\/or competencies have been achieved. They differ from traditional degrees and certificates in that they are generally offered in shorter or more flexible time spans and tend to be more narrowly focused”. This caught my attention because of how learning objectives are broken down into ‘chunks’ that can be easily understood and once you demonstrate a specific skill it becomes part of your digital file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Micro-credentials are not: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Education provider includes High school, non-academic provider, MOOCs, and Post-secondary education institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some key features of Micro-credentialing are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Micro-credentials can be offered online, in the classroom, or via a hybrid of both contributes to its growing trend because it is easily accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It can be offered by companies, colleges, universities professional bodies, etc an example of this is, Texas A&M University<\/a> who has begun offering a new series of short, online, game-based courses in order to help students meet their degree requirements. The courses can be taken at any time. Constructivism is at the core of project-based learning and \u201cauthentic, real-world problem-based projects lend themselves to the multifaceted constructivist perspective\u201d (Bush, 2006, p.16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Canada, Athabasca University\u2019s Power-Ed offers micro-credentials in project management, digital transformation and leadership<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Another example is CISCO using the Acclaim platform, to offer badges for learners to develop skills that enable them to use CISCO\u2019S technology<\/a>. Cisco\u2019s Professional badge collection can be viewed on the Credly platform:<\/p>\n\n\n\n