Micro-credential mountains and molehills

Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl

Chapter 30 in How to Use Digital Learning with Confidence and Creativity, 2024, pp 251-259 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Micro-credentials are an international topic in higher education, policy and industry circles purporting to address employability, lifelong and life-wide agendas through short-form learning. Many higher education institutions and systems are attempting to navigate a path for their micro-credential engagement. To facilitate their journey, some of the key questions and issues such as quality assurance, stackability and learner status are discussed in this chapter with reference to ongoing national and international micro-credential developments, projects and initiatives. What is clear, however, is that although micro-credentials are not new in higher education, they are posing some major questions for a myriad of higher education and quality actors particularly if awareness, recognition, transparency and scalability of this offering type is to be systematically and institutionally supported.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Innovations and Technology; Teaching Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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