Stacking and Micro-credentials | HESA
Jonathan McQuarrie,
HESA,
Nov 18, 2022
A short post from Jonathan McQuarrie arguing that "for incredibly frustrating reasons, Canada has chosen to go the other way and deliberately put barriers in the way of making micro-credentials stackable into larger credentials." This feels like an Elon Musk sort of approach - we'll just force it to work this way because I say so. In fact, there are more subtleties to microcredentials. As Gavin Moodie says in a comment, "micro credentials are stackable into substantial credentials only by incorporating strong sequencing material and principles, which compromises their purported focus and flexibility." In other words (and this is my paraphrase, not his), if you force it (like Elon Musk) you break it (like Elon Musk). This, he says, is explained in his article Credentialing micro-credentials (14 page PDF).
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