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Speaking at the launch of the ACS Digital Pulse report John Griggs, ACS CEO, said "Every business is a tech business". This is at...

The new Australian Government is going ahead with a modest micro-credential initiative of the previous government.  But we also need some re...

Jason Clare MP Jason Clare, Australian Minister for Education has announced $18.5M for a Microcredentials Pilot in Higher Education (9 No...

The government of the Canadian province of Alberta has announced a CA $8M, two year micro-credential program . This follows a CA$5.6M 2021 p...

UNESCO titled their 31 page Draft Preliminary Report " A conversation starter: Towards acommon definition of micro-credentials " (...

Keith Heggart Camille Dickson-Deane Keith Heggart and Camille Dickson-Deane have published an important paper on the rationale behind the ...

The Australian government has encouraged universities to offer shorter qualifications to provide vocational skills which are in demand, in a...

Greetings from the Designing Micro-credentials and Professional Short Courses at the Marie Reay Teaching Centre at the Australian National ...

Following the adage "never let a good crisis go to waste" the Australian Government is introducing reforms to higher education . W...

The Australian government is to build a and online microcredentials marketplace , but I am not sure it is needed. The existing  Courseseeker...

The Hon Dan Tehan MP Minister for Education The Minister for Education, Hon Dan Tehan MP , announc...

The Australian Government announced funding for short online university programs, in response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus , on 12 April 2...

The Hon Dan Tehan MP Minister for Education The Australian Minister for Education, Dan Tehan , and the M...

Selvaratnam and Sankey (2019) concluded that the low-hanging fruit for Micro-credentialing in Australian higher education are short courses...

Brian Stewart Deputy CIO, University of Alberta Leading the Crafting a Digital Strategy Course Athabasc...

A Review of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), has proposed recognising credit-bearing microcredentials, and implementing a nat...

A consortium of universities is proposing a common standard for  digital credentials for degrees, professional certificates and online c...

The European MOOC Consortium (EMC) has proposed a Common Microcredential Framework (CMF). This would allow for mutual recognition of sma...

Photo by CAPA President Greetings from EduTECH in Sydney. Yesterday I talked on Mobile Learning with Micro-Credentials for Internationa...

I will be speaking on " Mobile Learning with Micro-Credentials for International Students ", at EduTECH in Sydney, 4pm ...