1. Current status of micro-credentials
and short programmes in Europe
Learning with MOOCs 2018
Madrid 27 September 2018

2. Thank you!!!
Darco.Jansen@eadtu.eu
Coordinator
Partner

3. Lifelong learning , continuous education and
continuous professional development are
underdeveloped in large parts of the EU
(see EU Education and Training Monitor, 2017)

9. Key elements Short Learning Programmes
(SLPs)
• Online/blended SLPs are flexible and scalable to serve
large numbers, needed to close the knowledge and skills
gap in Europe
• SLPs also keep innovative knowledge and skills of
workforce up to date
• SLPs better anticipate on careers of tomorrow than
degree programmes
• Building block to complete degrees

10. Short Learning Programmes
Short Learning Programmes (SLPs): certified CE/CPD programmes,
responding to the needs on the EU labour market, innovative knowledge
and competence development for innovation, employability, career
development and entrepreneurship. Sectoral and tranversal.
Hence, SLPs are entirely part of the Modenisation Agenda and the Digital
Education Action Plan of the European Commission.
SLPs also respond to the demand and life conditions of large numbers of
students aged 25+ for a short study period in order to obtain an award, a
certificate or a diploma at diverse qualification levels (EQF from 4 to 8:
foundation, bachelor, master and doctoral level).

11. SLPs – fit with EQF required

12. E-SLP project:
• Defining the concept and position of Short Learning
Programmes (SLPs)
• Empowering university leadership and staff,
including developing institutional policies
• Developing guidelines for collaborative SLPs and
related mobility
• Developing recognition frameworks
• Mainstreaming SLPs as a specific area of
university provision, next to degree education and
open education

13. 3 main results E-SLP contributing to
improving the EU education landscape:
• Analysis and blueprint for institutional and
governmental policies and strategies
• Pilots on collaborative SLPs resulting in
models and guidelines for development
and for QA / recognition of SLPs
• Portal with SLP offering

14. Three areas of provision emerging
Degree education
Continuous
education /
CPD
Open
education,
MOOCs
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15. The changing pedagogical landscape
Blended degree
education:
• Bachelor, Master, PhD
• Business model:
regulated, not-for-profit;
education as a public
good, not as a commodity
Blended
and online
continuous
education
• CPD, SLP’s and non-
accredited education
• Business model: non-
regulated, not-for-profit,
for profit
Open
Education
• MOOCs, OERs, open
media, open knowledge
• Business model: non-
regulated, not-for profit
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16. Three areas of provision: different profiles
Degree education zone, backbone in the education system to develop complex academic
and professional competences: bachelor, master, PhD – increasingly blended solutions to
raise quality and to face growing student numbers. Online distance higher education provides
flexibility for lifelong learners.
Continuous education and training on demand, valorisation of knowledge to support
innovation in the public and private sector, based on research and development. Flexibility
requires online or blended solutions, such as (virtual) seminars, CPD, knowledge alliance and
corporate university initiatives, short learning programmes, master classes, expert schools,
etc. It includes knowledge networks for professionals or business sectors.
Open education and knowledge sharing area, pushing knowledge online into the public
domain: OERs, MOOCs, open media, open access/open innovation materials – preferably to
be designed and arranged according to the needs of user groups/networks
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17. Short programmes
Online short programmes are an educational spin-off
product of research, innovation and education in
universities, from which they are derived.
They contribute to the core mission of universities, sharing
education with all citizens by
open accessibility (open education),
transferring and valorising innovative knowledge to
enterprises (continuing education, CPD),
and formally or informally integrating SLPs as an enriching
learning experience in blended degree education
(bachelor, master, doctorate).

18. Thank you!!!
Darco.Jansen@eadtu.eu
Coordinator
Partner