Preparing people for professional environments has always been a core purpose of universities, and the adoption of microcredentials will likely expand the ways this can be done. A microcredential, however, is a different educational proposition to a traditional degree course. So it is important the consumer chooses wisely. But even though they are different, the two are still compatible. You may even find yourself engaging in both traditional university courses and microcredentials as you evolve and adapt throughout your career.
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
Microcredentials far from maturity, Educause poll finds - EdScoop
Non-degree credentials and certificates have been offered by colleges for years, but few programs are well-established, a survey found. While non-degree credentials and certificates have been offered across higher education for years, those programs frequently are not well-established, the poll found. Only 9% of respondents indicated that their institution has a mature microcredential program, while 19% said their institution did not offer any microcredentials at all and 4% said they didn’t know about any microcredentialing at their institution. A majority of respondents, 69%, indicated they are in the early stages of launching or expanding microcredential programs.
Sunday, July 30, 2023
UNO’s New Microcredentials Offer Rapid Upskilling to Meet Top Workforce Needs - University of Nebraska Omaha
New short-form course offerings from the University of Nebraska at Omaha will provide learners of all ages and from all industries with opportunities to learn in-demand skills and fill critical workforce gaps in a short amount of time.Beginning in Fall 2023, UNO will begin to offer microcredential programs. These flexible, affordable, and accessible new course offerings enable learners to increase their knowledge of in-demand skills through short-form non-credit courses.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Micro-credentials: Empowering Filipinos for the future of work Noemi Lardizabal-Dado - Noemi Lardizabal-Dado, Manila Times
In an evolving tech landscape, micro-credentials are proving to be instrumental for upskilling and reskilling. Micro-credentials are skill-centric certifications aimed at helping learners enhance their proficiency across various knowledge domains. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. emphasized the value of micro-credentials for Filipino workers to stay competitive in a meeting with members of the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) last year. "It's not a four-year course. It's not a degree. But you can present this to qualify for a job," said President Marcos. He emphasized the need to provide retraining and reskilling opportunities for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) intending to return to the country.
Friday, July 28, 2023
Free college in Colorado? It’s covered if you’re interested in teaching, firefighting, law enforcement, construction or forestry - Jenny Brundin, Colorado Public Radio
Colorado has such dire workforce shortages in early childhood education, education, firefighting, law enforcement, construction and forestry that if you want a job in those fields, the state will pay for your college education to get a job. Gov. Jared Polis officially launched the program “Career Advance Colorado” on Tuesday. It will provide tuition, fees and course materials to students on those specific career training paths. “We’re excited to save Coloradans money and train people for good-paying jobs by offering free community college education for in-demand positions at the state’s 19 community and technical colleges,” Polis said.
https://www.cpr.org/2023/07/18/colorado-free-college-career-advance-program/
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Recruiters Say Alternative Credentials Can Land You a Job, But Validating Them is a Challenge - Business Wire
As college degrees become more expensive and post-grad salaries stagnate, job seekers are turning to more affordable options such as coding bootcamps and certification programs. According to Capterra’s 2023 Alternative Credentials survey of 300 recruiters, 96% of them say they’ve had at least one applicant submit a resume with an alternative credential in the past year. “Dropping inequitable college degree requirements on job openings and recognizing the value certificates, digital badges, or other alternative credentials can bring to an organization are a great start.” However, as the demand for alternative credentials surges, recruiters also face a significant challenge in validating their authenticity and relevance for specific jobs. A significant 43% of recruiters say they sometimes or always don’t recognize an alternative credit when it appears on a resume, and 71% agree that evaluating the quality of alternative credentials is harder than assessing a college degree.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
NNSA to award $2.17 million for new apprenticeship programs - National Nuclear Security Administration
“Across the NSE, we see a need for a greater number of skilled trade workers. Training in these areas is increasingly limited; therefore, the ACCESS program is working to develop training programs to fill the gaps,” said Dr. Kevin Greenaugh, Chief Science and Technology Officer, Office of Defense Programs. Hardinge, Inc., Elmira, NY, will receive $978,053, for the project Level Up @ Hardinge, which will recruit and train apprentices in advanced manufacturing for the workforces at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Kansas City National Security Campus, and Y-12 National Security Site.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
7 Questions on Experiential Learning at Indiana U - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology
I started with reading a lot of books about advertising and how it works and all that stuff, but as I taught more and more, I gradually realized that the best thing is to just have the students do some advertising. That allowed me to not have to figure out in advance how I'm going to teach every single thing, but rather make corrections or adjustments as we go along. If you're a good teacher, you can pay attention to what people need, at what time they need it, and go into it and help them. So experiential learning is a big part of how I teach. I'm always looking for projects that have some meat and gravitas to them.
Monday, July 24, 2023
Micro-credentials now available for New Hampshire educators - IndepthNH
Continuing with its efforts to build literacy knowledge, the New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) is pleased to partner with Credentials Unlimited to provide educators with the opportunity to earn valuable micro-credentials focused on the Science of Reading. Through this collaboration, NHED aims to empower educators with the knowledge and skills to implement evidence-based reading practices in their classrooms. By earning a micro-credential in the Science of Reading, educators can enhance their professional growth, improve their teaching technique and ultimately make a profound impact on their students’ literacy development.
Sunday, July 23, 2023
What Are Microcredentials And Why Should You Care? - Frederick Hess, Forbes
If you pay much attention to higher education or workforce training, odds are you’ve seen excited talk about the promise of microcredentials. Earlier this year, a survey of employers reported that 95 percent think it’s a good thing if their employees are earning microcredentials. More than 70 percent said that microcredentials have helped their organization fill skills gaps, that they’ve helped improve their workforce quality, and that their organization is increasingly more willing to consider these types of credentials in lieu of four-year degrees. At the same time, the survey conducted by Collegis Education and UPCEA (the association for college leaders in continuing education) raised some cautions. Seventeen percent of employers said they were concerned about irrelevant credentials and a lack of critical training, and 12 percent expressed worry about the quality of the education provided.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Supporting Internship Experience With Pay - Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed
To offset expenses and provide students with equitable access to internships, Emory University in Georgia has joined the growing number of institutions developing solutions to the issue. The Pathways Internship Funding program, launched this summer, provides students with financial aid and support their career pursuits. “Our goal is to allow students to say yes to their dream internship even if it is unpaid or underpaid,” says Ed Goode, director of experiential learning at Emory’s Pathways Center, adding that he and his staff strongly recommend to employers that they pay their interns.
Micro-credentials: a perspective from Europe - FE News
A CEDEFOP conference, 22 – 23 June surveyed the present state of Micro-credentials across Europe. Led by Anastasia Pouliou (CEDEFOP expert in qualifications, credentials and the future of VET) the conference looked at how Micro-credentials can improve skills utilisation and career development, and build stronger links with workplace requirements. Anastasia makes the point that designing a Micro-credential requires careful and precise articulation of learning outcomes. Some sessions in the conference engaged in the sterile debate on how micro-credentials should relate to national systems, and whether credits could be assigned tariffs, aligned with existing qualifications, and so become transferable. This sounds like the assessment bureaucracy trying to get their hands on a movement which is essentially local, spontaneous, and indeed potentially subversive.
Friday, July 21, 2023
Ministers Harris and Coveney launch Microcreds.ie platform to boost upskilling and reskilling in Ireland - Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment;
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney today launched a new platform to assist people seeking to upskill and reskill. Over 300 short, flexible and accredited courses are available through the platform from seven institutions to address skills needs of industry. The MicroCreds project is €12.5 million and aims to reimagine the learner’s education experience through agile, accessible and bite-sized qualifications.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Making Micro-credentials Meaningful and Accessible - PR Newswire
From D2L Fusion’s Executive Summit, D2L, a global learning technology company, today released a new research report, Enabling Learning for Life: New Realities for Work and Education, showing that American workers are struggling to locate relevant micro-credential programs—and often don’t understand how they relate to career advancement. The study indicates that American workers want to learn but continuous upskilling is still not the norm, despite its critical importance in economic environment of accelerating technological change.
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Making Micro-credentials Meaningful and Accessible - D2L
From D2L Fusion's Executive Summit, D2L, a global learning technology company, today released a new research report, Enabling Learning for Life: New Realities for Work and Education, showing that American workers are struggling to locate relevant micro-credential programs—and often don't understand how they relate to career advancement. The study indicates that American workers want to learn but continuous upskilling is still not the norm, despite its critical importance in economic environment of accelerating technological change.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Advancing Microcredentials: Communicating Potential to Learners, Partners and Stakeholders - Cynthia Proctor, the Evolllution
With growing awareness and understanding of the value of short-term credentials, the remaining roadblocks standing in the way of microcredential program growth become clearer, and each day we progress in meeting challenges and exploring opportunities—with a driving focus on effective communication. As we move forward in the 2023-24 academic year, the State University of New York’s (SUNY) system-wide directory will grow to nearly 600 microcredentials with 51 of 64 campuses engaged—including community colleges, technology colleges, comprehensive colleges and doctoral institutions (from R1 research universities to medical centers).
Monday, July 17, 2023
Microcredentialing: A Win-Win-Win for Businesses, Students and Educational Institutions - Alicia Dickens, the Evolllution
The thunderous plea from business and industry constituents to address the growing talent shortage has compelled many institutions to re-evaluate the alignment of their current academic practices. This evaluation has resulted in the reexamination of many new and existing approaches such as microcredentials. Microcredentials are not new to academia; however, broad and cross-institution integration may be considered new or certainly rare. If asked, institutional personnel will agree that microcredentials have value in the workplace.
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Michigan State University Extension offers zoning board of appeals training - The Daily Telegram
Online, self-paced training courses are available for members of local government zoning boards of appeals (ZBA), local government managers and attorneys, and local government staff. Michigan State University Extension is offering its ZBA Online Certificate Course which teaches government officials the latest concepts on ZBA roles and responsibilities, effective decision making and protecting due process.
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Adapting Education: Harnessing the Power of Microcredentials - Jon Harbor, Illumination Modern Campus
There’s a growing recognition that microcredentials are crucial for enhancing employability. This requires an adjustment to the post-secondary education model to emphasize the modular and flexible microcredentials that meet modern learners' specific career goals and market needs. On this episode, Jon Harbor, Provost of Purdue University Global, discusses the recognition of the value in short-term credentials that speak to the needs of modern learners, and the interplay between microcredentials and the traditional programming of a university.
Friday, July 14, 2023
E-learning courses are transforming our way of learning - World Health Organization
WHO launched two new e-courses on national strategic planning for TB and systematic screening for TB disease at this week’s meeting of its Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG-TB). The new WHO e-courses have been added to the End TB Channel in OpenWHO. Please register for these WHO courses that are designed to facilitate the uptake of latest WHO TB related guidelines and guidance documents. Using latest adult learning principles, the courses consist of a combination of videos, presentations, quizzes and case studies and build on information provided in WHO operational handbooks on TB and other WHO guidance documents. They are free of charge and can be taken at your own pace. A certificate can be downloaded if you achieve a 80% score or higher in the final assessment.
https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2023-e-learning-courses-are-transforming-our-way-of-learning
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Emily Carr University helps launch in-demand creative tech careers with B.C.’s new grant program - Vancouver Is Awesome
The StrongerBC future skills grant, unveiled just last month, is open to British Columbians aged 19 years or older – regardless of financial need – and provides up to $3,500 per person for eligible short-term skills training at public post-secondary institutions. ECU’s micro-credential programs, offered through Continuing Studies, are included in this grant program, which means learners can apply to take eligible courses with financial support. Micro-credentials are short-term courses and programs designed to help students develop focused, job-ready skills for in-demand positions in growing industries like tech, housing, construction, and clean energy.
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