The special issue of the International Journal of Technology in Higher Education will publish a collection of papers which critically and analytically focus on micro-credentials as the “next new normal” for digitally-enhanced and -enabled learning in higher education ecosystems. Micro-credentials are purported to offer more flexible, digitally-enabled, learner-focused, and wide-reaching education and training opportunities for learners. Whilst the emergence, adoption, regulation, and impact of micro-credentials and other forms of digital credentials present a number of opportunities, they also raise important questions and challenges for all stakeholders (i.e. learners, employers, educational institutions, and government and professional bodies).
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Institutional and national credentialing processes, strategies, governance and policies
- credential ecology
- quality assurance and recognition frameworks
- co-construction of micro-credentials
- employability
- lifelong and lifewide learning
- transversal skill
- neoliberal ideologies
- academic trajectories
- value propositions of micro-credentials
Guest Editors:
Beverley Oliver, Edubrief; Professor Emeritus- Deakin University
Mark Brown, Dublin City University
Mairéad Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Dublin City University
Submission deadline: 31 July 2021
