Micro-credentials in Europe: A Brief Overview
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Presentation at Challenges and Micro credentials: Can the European framework for quality assurance be utilised for accreditation and recognition of challenges and Micro Credentials within the ECIU? If not, what are the alternative scenarios? ECIU University, 28th April.
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Micro-credentials in Europe: A Brief Overview
- 1. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL THINKING Micro-credentials in Europe: A Brief Overview 28th April 2021 Professor Mark Brown
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- 7. “A micro-credential is a proof of learning outcomes that a learner has acquired after a short learning experience. These learning outcomes have been assessed against transparent standards”
- 8. Credit Bearing Non Credit Bearing Bundled Unbundled Macro-credentials Formal Accredited Degrees New Credential Ecology Recognition of Learning
- 9. Credit Bearing Non Credit Bearing Bundled Unbundled Recognition of Learning Macro-credentials Formal Accredited Degrees Micro-credentials Formal & Semi Formal Courses Accredited & Stackable Non-status Awards Semi-Formal Courses Non-Accredited Certificates Nano-credentials Informal & Non-Formal Digital Badges & Certificates New Credential Ecology
- 10. Report launch in January 2021…
- 11. “We have to be flexible and modify our approach along the way to ensure wide-scale adaptation of micro- credentials. ECIU University will stretch, test and evaluate the system.
- 12. “We have to be flexible and modify our approach along the way to ensure wide-scale adaptation of micro- credentials. ECIU University will stretch, test and evaluate the system. We are also life-long learners. Therefore, this paper is not the final destination. You will hear from us again… because the short- and long term developments of micro-credentials cannot be fully predicted and there is still much to learn” (ECIU, 2021, p. 1).
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- 26. Three takeaways… • All roads appear to be leading to micro- credentials • Micro-credentials still lack a commonly agreed and living European definition • ECIU is still a leader in micro-credential development, but we need to more clearly articulate what makes us distinctive
- 27. • Are micro-credentials here to stay? • What will micro-credentials look like in Europe by 2025? • How is your university responding to the micro- credentialing movement? Three questions…
- 29. Go raibh maith agaibh! Thank you