This document is a presentation on micro-credentials by Professor Mark Brown of Dublin City University. It discusses the reasons for micro-credentials, including lifelong learning, employability, equity, and achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals. It defines micro-credentials as proofs of learning outcomes assessed against transparent standards, which can include informal digital badges or certificates to formal accredited courses. The presentation outlines implementing micro-credentials through individual institutions, consortiums, or online platforms and notes that over 500,000 Canadians annually earn certificates from St. John's. It concludes by calling for more data on micro-credentials.

1. A Manifesto for Micro-credentials
Fairy-dust or Star-dust?
1st March 2022
Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
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3. Micro-credentials
should be in the service of
big ideas,
not as a big idea
in itself!

5. @mbrownz
1. Why micro-credentials?
2. What is a micro-credential?
3. How do you implement micro-credentials?
Questions…
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6. State of the Art Literature Review on Micro-credentials

7. 7
https://www.dcu.ie/nidl
87% of
sample already
in MC Observatory

8. https://irelandseducationyearbook.ie
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9. @mbrownz
1. Why micro-credentials?
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10. Why?

11. Why?

12. Why?

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Sheepskin Effect
Why?

14. 14
11.1%
Why?

15. Why?

16. Lifelong Learning
§
§
Employability
65%
48%
(Brown et al., 2021)
Why?

17. Equity
SDGS
(Brown et al., 2021)
Why?

18. Why?

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).
Why?

20. Why?

21. @mbrownz
2. What is a micro-credential?
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22. Credit Bearing
Non Credit Bearing
Bundled Unbundled
Credential
Ecology
Macro-credentials
Formal Accredited
Degrees
(Brown et al., 2020)
What?

23. Credit Bearing
Non-Credit Bearing
Bundled Unbundled
Credential
Ecology
Macro-credentials
Formal Accredited
Degrees
Micro-credentials
Formal & Semi Formal
Accredited & Stackable
Nano-credentials
Informal & Non-Formal
Digital Badges & Certificates
Non-status Awards
Semi-Formal Courses
Non-Accredited
(Brown et al., 2020)
What?

24. TWIG, 2021
500,000 Canadians annually seek to complete St. John’s certificates
Since 1833
What?

25. What?

26. What?

27. “A micro-credential is a proof of learning outcomes
that a learner has acquired after a short learning experience.
These learning outcomes have been assessed
against transparent standards”
What?

28. (Brown et al., 2021)
What?

29. What word best encapsulates your view?
What?

30. @mbrownz
3. How do you implement micro-credentials?
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31. How?
(Presant, 2020)

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Sole Institution
(Brown et al., 2021)
How?

33. 01/12/2021

35. https://search.ecampusontario.ca/micro-credential-search
How?

36. How?

37. How?
€7m

38. @mbrownz
Final Remark
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39. A data desert!
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Where?

41. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you