Micro-Credentials and Badges in Education: a Historical Overview

Gish-Lieberman, Jaclyn J.; Tawfik, Andrew A.; Gatewood, Jessica

doi:10.1007/s11528-020-00567-4

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“…Micro-credentials connect students' activities and experiences to learning and development in a meaningful way, engaging them through a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators involved in self-regulated learning. Gish-Lieberman et al (2021) support this idea indicating that up to now, the common trend in micro-credentials is that they are better suited for active, selfregulated, and autonomous learners. Even though it may sound rather positive, another recently published literature review (Nguyen et al, 2022) shows that many students shared their fears that they may not have vital learning skills to undertake micro-credentials and, in that way, acquire needed professional skills and competencies.…”

Section: Micro-credentials As Higher Education Innovationsmentioning

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Exploring the potential of micro-credentials: A systematic literature review

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Micro-credentials have recently become a huge research interest, as they play an important role in the social, economic, and higher education sectors. Mindful of growing critique in some circles and recent publications, this paper offers an informed analysis of the potential of micro-credentials to foster post-COVID-19 pandemic recovery across a spectrum of dimensions, including supporting innovation in higher education institutions (HEIs). It reports a systematic literature review analysis of scientific articles published between 2015 and January 2022 on micro-credential research in the field of higher education. Results of a bibliometric and qualitative content analysis from 32 scientific articles provided insights into the potential of micro-credentials to foster post-pandemic recovery through social, economic, and higher education innovations. The findings suggest that the potential can be unfolded through multiple dimensions, like offering more possibilities for individuals to up-skill, re-skill and enter the labor market (economic context), enhancing lifelong learning by developing flexible personal learning pathways (social context), extending services in assessment and recognition of non-formal and informal learning, and introducing stackable credits and previous qualifications (higher education context). Even though the paper analyses scientific articles from the pre-pandemic and pandemic period, this study aim to systematize the results of other researchers and to offer sound insights into how further development in micro-credentials could contribute to the post-pandemic recovery.

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“…Finally, including the study of micro-credentials is suggested, as their occurrence is likely to condition the likelihood of learners showing interest in micro-learning platform courses [147] as well as learners showing CBE or BA.…”

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Micro-learning Platforms Brand Awareness Using Socialmedia Marketing and Customer Brand Engagement

Mujica

Villanueva

Lodeiros-Zubiria

2021

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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This study aims to analyse the impact of Social Media Marketing in Customer Brand Engagement and Brand Awareness micro-learning platforms. The sample consisted of 220 students from micro-learning platforms using social media in the educational institutions. Because social-media marketing and customer brand- engagement are second-order reflexive constructions, the two-stage approach of hierarchical models with mode-A was adopted. The results reveal that social media marketing influences both the building of customer brand engagement and brand awareness among students on micro-learning platforms. Furthermore, it was shown that customer brand engagement is an important mediator between social media marketing and brand awareness. Social-media marketing activities carried out by micro-learning platforms contribute to the generation of customer brand-engagement and brand awareness of these institutions. Furthermore, the results show that, although social-media marketing helps to generate brand-awareness, it is through customer brand-engagement that social-media marketing is most effective in generating brand-awareness. For micro-learning platforms, the results allow them to understand the importance of customer brand-engagement when using social-media marketing to generate brand-awareness.

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Origins and Impact of Micro-credentials in Education

Schoenenberger

2024

Connected Learning: Origins, Opportunities, and Perspectives of Contemporary Educational Design

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Micro-Credentials and Badges in Education: a Historical Overview

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Exploring the potential of micro-credentials: A systematic literature review

Exploring the potential of micro-credentials: A systematic literature review

Micro-learning Platforms Brand Awareness Using Socialmedia Marketing and Customer Brand Engagement

Origins and Impact of Micro-credentials in Education

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