Morning everyone... 7am in London!

Some more recent recommended readings here, including the report I just mentioned on Coursera: https://www.edubrief.com.au/micro-credentials.html

Thanks for sharing that link Bev

Please let us know if you have a question for the panel

everley’s 2019 report… https://dteach.deakin.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2019/08/Making-micro-credentials-work-Oliver-Deakin-2019-full-report.pdf

Micro-credential Observatory… https://www.dcu.ie/nidl/micro-credential-observatory

Recent European Commission presentation on Micro-credentialing initiative… https://www.slideshare.net/EADTU/ihe2020-european-approach-to-microcredentials

Irish National Micro-credential initiative with €12M… https://www.iua.ie/press-releases/iua-press-release-5th-oct-iua-breaks-new-ground-with-e12-3-million-mc2-micro-credentials-project-under-hci-pillar-3/

Those two different routes are quite tricky to navigate

ACODE Microcredentila survey https://www.acode.edu.au/pluginfile.php/8411/mod_resource/content/1/ACODE_MicroCreds_Whitepaper_2020.pdf

I love the idea of the ideas lab!

The focus is on the student, not the institution. Its about making the tacit explicit and helping them to make the connection to their proposed career

DCU’s micro-credentials on FutureLearn… https://www.futurelearn.com/microcredentials/fintech-financial-innovation

What Michael said

Note this new position at USQ of Director of the Micro-credentials Unit… https://usq.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.listJobs&jobid=3B3D0178-6AB6-4AF1-83AE-AC5D010730A1&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=5766E0EF%2D89B4%2D4384%2DA729%2D9DB40135F721&JobListID=22FC4F47%2DE994%2D46A3%2DB8C9%2D9BC901269F43&jobsListKey=aed8a4b8%2D90ce%2D4b2d%2Db2d4%2D7084464d8033&persistVariables=CurATC,CurBID,JobListID,jobsListKey,JobID&lid=09824340028

A useful read on some of the neo-liberal drivers claimed to be part of the micro-credentialing movement… Higher Education’s Microcredentialing Craze: a Postdigital-Deweyan Critique… https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-020-00121-8

Thanks Mark

Promoting Lifelong Learning is a key driver in Europe

I'm interested in the panelists opinions on the need for evidence to underpin micro-credentials

Another driver in Europe is helping to develop new business and delivery models for higher education. The ECIU University is one such funded new model… The ECIU University… https://www.eciu.org/eciu-university

I also share with everyone that the recently formed International Council on Badges and Credentials is seeking to bring our various voices and questions together - see: https://ic-badges-credentials.org/en/

1) employers whom are hiring should work closely with micro credentials stakeholders in universities to state out the micro credential skills required by the job roles and the candidates (especially graduates) whom can be upskilled and reskilled via the micro credentials in universities as part of the employers’ onboarding program that candidates to be hired can deliver employers’ expectations in a more industry and motivated to learn on the job manner as employability is upmost important? (2) Also, should micro credentials in universities be vendor neutral?

Sounds good Karen. I think assessing LOs as part of a microcredential is something I've assumed but possibly not been explicit enough about!

“Learning is life!”

… and life is learning

Thanks all

thanks everyone, very interesting.

Thanks for attending