The impact of issuing micro-credentials for a higher education institution

The impact of issuing micro-credentials for a higher education institution

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Higher education institutions lead in innovation application and test various technology-enhanced solutions to correspond to student and bar drain board labour market needs, foster and analyse innovative scenarios, and their impact on teaching and learning processes.There is a limited number of shared good practices that discuss technologies used for the issuance of micro-credentials, and this paper aims to reveal the higher education practice of testing some virtual infrastructures for issuing micro-credentials for students attending non-formal university courses.This research experimented with and tested VLE Moodle and Europass EDC infrastructures to issue micro-credentials.

It was found that both Moodle VLE and Europass sophie allport zebra EDC infrastructure can be used to issue micro-credentials.Europass EDC infrastructure is more end-user friendly, while Moodle collects data during the learning process and can automatically transfer results to the micro-credential.However, both virtual infrastructures have some drawbacks, which may be fixed in the future.