Overview of Micro-credential Implementation: Running to Catch a Moving Train
1. Overview of Micro-credential Implementation:
Running to Catch a Moving Train
19th January 2022
Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
MicroCredX Keynote
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4. • How are they being positioned?
• What business models are being used?
• Where are the gaps, tensions and challenges?
Micro-credentials…
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5. State of the Art Literature Review on Micro-credentials
19. 19
“Microcredentialing is an
outgrowth of the neoliberal
learning economy. In this
economy, education resembles a
commodity, a product, or service
marketed and sold like any other
commodity” (p. 2).
20.
21. 2. What business models are being used?
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36. “Work towards a legal statute for alliances of
higher education institutions to allow them to pool
resources, capacities and their strengths, with an
Erasmus+ pilot as of 2022.”
38. 3. Where are the gaps, tensions
and challenges?
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39. • State of the art vs. state of the actual
• State of the demand vs. state of the supply
• State of the real benefits vs. state of the claims
Three issues…
49. Final remark…
“Neither a wise man [or woman] nor a brave man
[or woman] lies down on the tracks of history to
wait for the train of the future to run over him [or
her]”
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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