Research and Educator Micro-Credentials White Paper

Micro-credentials offer an important opportunity for educators to strengthen their professional learning. Accessed and awarded online, micro-credentials leverage an online technology platform to provide educators competency-based, on-demand, personalized and shareable opportunities to demonstrate and be recognized for their professional learning. One exemplary issuing organization, the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University, has completed the validation process for six micro-credentials, with another 20 nearly complete as of December 2018. Read the rest of the white paper here.