Blog entry by ANNAMARIA DE SANTIS
Anyone in the world
The world of work increasingly requires a more dynamic and specialized training system that permits to reach targeted goals in a short time. At the same time, full-time students and lifelong learners ask to acquire new knowledge and skills from short, recognized and quality-assured courses.
Institutions are generally not yet ready to accept these requests. Hence the need for a system to make qualifications more readable and understandable across different countries and systems.
EduOpen and the partners of the European Moocs Consortium (EMC), working on this idea, during the EADTU-UE 2019 summit, held in Brussels on April 30th 2019, launched a Common Microcredential Framework (CMF) to lay the foundations for a new international credential for universities to meet the needs of lifelong learners, globally.
In order to qualify as a microcredential within this framework, a course must be capable of earning academic credit. This requirement ensures courses must be developed within the university's national qualification framework and, in Europe, in line with level 6 and 7 of the European Qualification Framework (EQF). Besides, it must have a total study time of no less than 100 hours and no more than 150 hours, provide a summative assessment that enables the award of academic credit, operate a reliable method of ID verification, provide a transcript that sets out the learning outcomes for a microcredential, total study hours required, EQF level and number of credit points earned.
The first microcredentials as part of this CMF are expected to be ready for enrolment on the partner platforms, in the second half of 2019. On EduOpen we have already published courses belonging to Masters and Specialization Courses that offer university credits (we are at a good point!).
These microcredential courses will aim to be recognizable between different higher education institutions and thereby create an ecosystem where learners can one day take microcredentials from within a network of universities that can be used towards a larger qualification, such as a postgraduate certificate or Masters degree.
Isn't it a way to make knowledge more fluid, free, creative and open?
Learn more
EduOpen and the partners of the European Moocs Consortium (EMC), working on this idea, during the EADTU-UE 2019 summit, held in Brussels on April 30th 2019, launched a Common Microcredential Framework (CMF) to lay the foundations for a new international credential for universities to meet the needs of lifelong learners, globally.
In order to qualify as a microcredential within this framework, a course must be capable of earning academic credit. This requirement ensures courses must be developed within the university's national qualification framework and, in Europe, in line with level 6 and 7 of the European Qualification Framework (EQF). Besides, it must have a total study time of no less than 100 hours and no more than 150 hours, provide a summative assessment that enables the award of academic credit, operate a reliable method of ID verification, provide a transcript that sets out the learning outcomes for a microcredential, total study hours required, EQF level and number of credit points earned.
The first microcredentials as part of this CMF are expected to be ready for enrolment on the partner platforms, in the second half of 2019. On EduOpen we have already published courses belonging to Masters and Specialization Courses that offer university credits (we are at a good point!).
These microcredential courses will aim to be recognizable between different higher education institutions and thereby create an ecosystem where learners can one day take microcredentials from within a network of universities that can be used towards a larger qualification, such as a postgraduate certificate or Masters degree.
Isn't it a way to make knowledge more fluid, free, creative and open?
Learn more
[ Modified: Wednesday, 5 June 2019, 7:00 PM ]
