Making Skills Portable: A Strategy for International Micro-credentials

Activities for for international course recognition

1. Course delivery work
2. Formalization work
3. Selection work
4. Translation work
5. Transparency work
6. Comparison work
7. Integration work
8. Certification work

• Managing diverse learner audiences in the same classroom
• Timing and promoting new course formats
• Aligning schedules for interdisciplinary modules
  

• Writing learning outcomes as competencies
• Defining assessments
• Aligning with cross-context standards
• Securing local approval for local course recognition
  

• Define what a good international micro-qualification looks like
• Define what does not qualify for further ‘recognition work’.
• Consider learner personas, contexts, and relevant recognition authorities
• Consider the level of institutionalization (individual – structural)
• Look for internal and external resources
• Write up a small case, including cost/benefit
• Set up a process for go / no go

• Reworking text and instructions, assuming varying contexts
• Adding references to international or universal standards
• Basic language translation
• Adding translations or comments on context-specific wording or concepts
• Use existing tools like EU’s Certificate Supplement to help inform the translation
  

• Gathering materials
• Structuring materials
• Opening access to materials
  

• Get commitment from partners
• Build a way to gather cross-context feedback when working with international partners
• Catalog feedback in a meaningful way, tied to the specific module and section
• Be detailed and informative while avoiding cluttered, irrelevant information
• Look for creative and valid recognition ideas
  

• Improving the international relevance and formality of the module
• Make a design for adding more contexts to existing modules
  

• Making note of students getting recognized individually in other contexts
• Building agreements and processes for recognition with local or national governments
• Building agreements with other schools
• Add high-value approaches to your strategy
  

• Define what a strong international micro-qualification looks like
• Define what does not qualify for further recognition work
• Consider learner personas, contexts, and relevant recognition authorities
• Consider the level of institutionalization (individual → structural)
• Identify internal and external resources
• Write a short case, including a cost/benefit overview
• Establish a process for go / no-go decisions
  

• Rework text and instructions with varying contexts in mind
• Add references to international or universal standards
• Translate key materials
• Add notes or comments on context-specific wording or concepts
• Use existing tools, such as the EU Certificate Supplement, to help guide translation
  

• Gather materials
• Structure materials
• Provide access to materials
  

• Secure commitment from partners
• Develop a process for collecting cross-context feedback with international partners
• Catalog feedback in a meaningful way, linked to specific modules or sections
• Be detailed and informative while avoiding unnecessary information
• Encourage creative and valid recognition ideas
  

• Improve the international relevance and formality of the module
• Design ways to include additional contexts in existing modules
  

• Record instances where students gain individual recognition in other contexts
• Develop agreements and processes for recognition with local or national governments
• Build agreements with other schools
• Incorporate high-value approaches into your strategy

Evaluate Curricula and Learning Outcomes — The “Why” and the “What”

Evaluate Teaching Methods — The “How”

Measure Trainer Competencies — The “Who”

• Päeva alustame Haridus- ja Teadusministeeriumi ülevaatega mikrokvalifikatsiooniõppe käivitumisest Eestis.
• Kuuleme rahvusvahelist vaadet ja Tartu VOCO kogemusi.
• Pärast lõunat sukeldume kahte praktilisse töötuppa, kus saate ise käe külge panna ja õppida mikrokvalifikatsiooni mudeli loomist ning koolituste kvaliteedi juhtimist.