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Micro-credentials

Current and recent reports from around the world on key issues related to this fast-moving field. Key issues include:
  • What is a micro-credential, what is a badge, and how are they related?
  • Who can provide a micro-credential, and what standards should apply (and who decides)?
  • Employability and employment: can micro-credentials deliver on the promise of labour force transformation?
  • How can micro-credentials interact with formal qualifications, should they, and who decides on credit requirements?
  • Will micro-credentials make lifelong learning a reality?
  • Accessibility and affordability: who pays, how much and what constitutes value for learners?
  • Where is evidence of success: outcomes data transparency
  • Interoperability: across sectors, industries, borders, lifespan - and digital systems

Good practice guide

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Excellent micro-credentials​
  1. Clearly communicate achievement of appropriate outcomes and standards with sufficient granularity to predict future performance
  2. Are based on judgments of rich evidence created in response to authentic assessments in a range of complex, ill-defined tasks
  3. Maximise assessment integrity, appropriately verifying the identity and the contribution of the learner
  4. Balance time and money invested by the learner with benefits realised during and after conferral (credit or entry to a higher credential, enhanced status or career advantage)
  5. Are sustainable, based on sound business models, crisp and consistent value propositions, and compliance with regulatory framework

Noteworthy reports, webinars, articles and similar

 Unboxing micro-credentials: Certifying your future (Oct 2020)
  • Bologna Process: Micro-credentials as a way to enhance learning and teaching in the EHEA (Oct 2020)
  • MICROBOL, Micro-credentials linked to the Bologna Key Commitments (Sept 2020)
  • Oliver, Coursera Professional Certificates and Google Career Certificates: A snapshot analysis (Oct 2020)
  • Oliver, Making micro-credentials work for learners, employers and providers (Aug 2019)
  • Kato, Galán-Muros, and Weko, The emergence of alternative credentials OECD Working Paper (2020).
  • ECIU, Towards a European micro-credential initiative - includes five guiding principles (Apr 2020)
  • Brimo and Diaz, OpenCreds: A lifelong learning micro-credentialing framework (2020)
  • Camilleri and Rampelt, Concept paper on quality assurance on credentials. (2018).
  • Chakroun and Keevy Digital credentialing: Implications for the recognition of learning across borders (2018)
  • EDUCAUSE 7 Things You Should Know About Digital Badges (2019)
  • Review of the Australian Qualifications Framework: Final Report Ch4 (2019)
  • Gallagher, Educational Credentials Come of Age: A Survey on the Use and Value of Educational Credentials in Hiring (2018)
  • Selvaratnam and Sankey, Survey of micro-credentialing practices in Australian universities 2020

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