ERIC Number: ED614355
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Publication Date: 2020-Oct
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Integrating Micro-Credentials into Professional Learning: Lessons from Five Districts
Luke, Christina; Young, Viki M.
Digital Promise
Educator micro-credentials present a unique opportunity to link professional learning to practice. Through each competency-based credential, educators demonstrate application of their learning. School districts are seeing the value of embedding micro-credentials in existing professional learning pathways to promote educator agency, recognize educators developing their practice, and expand competency-based learning practices with students. Micro-credentials are particularly well-suited for introducing emerging technologies and content. Offering greater flexibility than one-time, stand-and-deliver professional learning, micro-credentials can serve as a vehicle for just-in-time, embedded learning in high-demand areas like computational thinking. While learning opportunities in computational thinking may have once been limited for educators without close proximity to a university with computer science education pathways, through micro-credentials, research-based resources are curated and made accessible to educators with an internet connection. This paper captures experiences and insights from educators and administrators as their districts integrated micro-credentials in support of professional learning. Learnings include suggestions for integrating micro-credentials effectively, ideas for deepening learning through micro-credentials, strategies for facilitating learning through micro-credentials, approaches to sustaining and expanding the role of micro-credentials for professional learning, and insights on evolving policies for micro-credential integration.
Descriptors: Credentials, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Computation, Thinking Skills, Program Effectiveness, Technology Integration, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Teacher Collaboration, Educational Resources, School Districts, Alignment (Education), Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Policy
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Digital Promise
Identifiers - Location: Florida; Washington; California; Iowa (Iowa City); Alabama
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