Principles to award learning achievements for lifelong learning in health using micro-credentials: an international Delphi study [PDF]
Background This research investigates micro-credentialing as an approach to recognise learning achievements in health. Establishing international standards can ensure consistency, promote equity, and enhance quality of recognition systems.
Sharon Mitchell +7 more
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Co-creating an SDG focused micro-credential [PDF]
[EN] This project describes the development and co-creation of a micro-credential programme on the UN SDGs by a team of lecturers and instructional designers from an Irish Technological University.
Comerford, Ciaran +3 more
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Challenges and opportunities of micro-credentials as a new form of certification in health science education—a discussion paper [PDF]
Micro-credentials are an element of the European Skills Agenda 2020. This five-year plan aims to develop improved applied and broader work skills in response to system demands from employers, industry and communities.
Kinga Zdunek +6 more
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Micro-credentials and reflections on higher education [PDF]
Purpose – Micro-credentials, which have been widely used in re-skilling and skills development, provide advantages for improvement in the professional career.
Rukiye Orman +2 more
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Micro-credentials (MCs) are emerging as a viable form of non-degree qualification as they can offer flexible, inexpensive contents which closely match learners’ needs. The opportunities to gain MCs are increasing and academics involved in online learning are particularly situated to help make, assess and validate MC courses. However, the lack of agreed
Neil Cowie, Keiko Sakui
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Editorial Open Praxis Volume 13 Issue 2
This second Open Praxis issue in 2021 includes seven research papers.
Inés Gil-Jaurena
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Credentialling: Educational Pathways in Design
The Future of Design Education described forces influencing degree study in higher education as a credential for design practice. Student debt and the challenges of increasingly diverse learners are two factors that determine college degree attainment ...
Meredith Davis +2 more
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Micro-credentials: A Postdigital Counternarrative
AbstractAlternative credentials, such as micro credentials and digital badges, are increasingly being developed in universities. Primarily aimed at employability, these credentials are being scrutinised as it is argued that they are surrounded by ‘great uncertainty’. We contribute to this scrutiny by examining the forms of subjectivity that result from
Vikki Pollard, Andrew Vincent
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A University's Developmental Framework: Creating, Implementing, and Evaluating a K-12 Teacher Cybersecurity Micro-Credential Course [PDF]
At present, there is limited understanding of cybersecurity micro-credentials and their impact on K-12 teachers. This work evaluates a university's development of a computing-based learning and teaching environment for K-12 teachers, focusing on a set of
Bekir Mugayitoglu +2 more
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Development and piloting of a micro-credential programme in research ethics and integrity leadership – an example from Estonia [PDF]
[EN] Micro-credentials are an emerging format of lifelong learning supporting competence-development as well as deepening knowledge in the field. Still, there is little research on implementing and sustaining micro-credentials in higher education.
Rajando, Kertu +2 more
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