Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Microcredentials. If you feel like you’ve been seeing more press about microcredentials lately, it’s because researchers see growing support from employers and learners, and higher education sees the potential for revenue and renewed relevance.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Also: When it comes to microcredentialing, put learners first. As the microcredential market booms, don’t forget the learner. (by by @EdSurge ) [link] #assnchat #microcredentials #credentialing pic.twitter.com/zMaZAfAyOo. You’ve done the hard work: You started a nonprofit. Put Learners First to Build Credibility.

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Membersuite

JANUARY 24, 2023

Offer early-career digital badges and stackable microcredentials they can earn in weeks or months. Gen Z wants access to information, news, education, and community on their phones. They don’t want to spend years earning a credential. Young professionals who work remotely are missing out on informal social learning.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You may need to add an online program and a microcredential that demonstrates mastery of that skill,” says the WBT Systems team. “For example, let’s say your strategy prioritizes training in a particular skill in response to market demands. However, you only have one webinar and two conference sessions scheduled on that topic.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Fewer than a third of organizations do any of these things, though microcredentials (like digital badges) and microlearning (or brief learning experiences) show potential for growth in the next year among many respondents.

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Membersuite

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Offer microcredentials and digital badges that people can earn in six months or less that will increase their job prospects and chance of promotion. Ask business owners and professionals who survived the 2008 recession to share their stories in virtual roundtables and town halls. 11: Listening.

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Membersuite

AUGUST 23, 2023

Promote your practical skills-based credential programs that award digital badges, microcredentials, and certificates. Prove your association understands how drastically things are changing and will continue to change. 65% of today’s students will have jobs that don’t exist yet ! You can teach them skills for today and the future.

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Leading Learning

MARCH 16, 2022

Depending on the area of focus, unbundling may or may not lead you to microcredentials. Unbundling is essentially a repackaging—and a reframing—of assets your learning business already has. Whether the resulting credentials are micro or not, unbundling brings some clear advantages.

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WBT Systems

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

These include discussion of making content “ as digestible and flexible as possible “, microcredentials, nanodegrees offered jointly with universities, and digital badges. . “ The report also mentions some competitive ideas for new strategies to make education and certification programs more attractive to learners.

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WBT Systems

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Petrillo said: “Fear of failure and self-doubt can be reduced or eliminated when adult students achieve reward or recognition, in small steps, by earning a digital badge or a microcredential along the professional development pathway to a high-stakes final assessment or main certification exam.”.

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Associations Now

MAY 29, 2014

Microcredentials , or credentials that focus on specific skills as opposed to a broad body of knowledge, are probably the least “fringe” of the three learning formats if you consider their current rate of adoption: about 10 percent of associations offer microcredentials now, and another 10 percent plan to provide them in the coming year.

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Aaron Wolowiec

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The slowly growing use of social media for learning and increased dabbling in emerging products, like microcredentials and massive courses. • . • A continued focus on professional instructional design to help ensure educational products are effective. •

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The Show and Tell of Microcredentialing (Association Chat). Microcredentialing is a hot topic in the association space right now. So what are the considerations before launching a microcredentialing program? Presenter: Tracy King, MA, CAE, Chief Learning Strategist & CEO, InspirEd. Tue 9/25 at 2 p.m. – Are there costs?

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

That’s why it’s a good time for your association to promote your certificate, microcredential and certification programs. In a changing world and uncertain economy, if you want to hold on to a job—or find a new one—you need to acquire and demonstrate mastery of new skills. Virtual conferences.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 15, 2016

Microcredentials are natural territory for associations and logically connect to microlearning,” the authors write. Learners increasingly appreciate and seek out ways to demonstrate their ongoing learning in what we term ‘the other 50 years’—the typical lifespan after adults leave higher education.”.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

With the size of college debt leaving many learners skittish and many companies embracing microcredentialing, associations have an opportunity to fill the gap. I think associations are the best secret going.”.

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Associations Now

APRIL 14, 2019

But before you launch your digital badges and microcredentials, think about where your members are—and how long they’ll stick around. And there are now many more paths, as associations experiment with microcredentials and other formats that are more user-friendly for members with complicated lives. Rops, FASAE, CAE.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 16, 2016

An excellent session on digital learning technologies started out with a bit of a spiel about how for-profit education firms are more adept and offering approaches like microlearning and microcredentialing, technologies that tend to be more compatible with the public’s busy lifestyles.

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CommPartners

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

This is a guest post written by Tracy King, CAE. As CEO of InspirEd, Tracy King leverages her more than 20 years in workforce development consulting with organizations on education strategy and learning design.

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Leading Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2020

New or alternative approaches to credentialing , including certificate programs, microcredentials, and digital badges. percent not doing anything with “new or alternative approaches to credentialing, including certificate programs, microcredentials, and digital badges” and the 40.2 Use of virtual conferences —i.e.,

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Leading Learning

JANUARY 7, 2022

an online event similar to a traditional face-to-face conference, not just a single Webinar New or alternative approaches to credentialing , including certificate programs, microcredentials, and digital badges Aligning our offerings with specific career or job paths relevant to learners—e.g.,

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Reid All About it

JULY 22, 2022

They also share skills training trends they see in research reports, such as soft skills training, microlearning, learning pathways, microcredentials and impact on job performance. WBT Systems describes how you can help member companies train, upskill and reskill their employees.

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