Micro-Credentials Landscape Report:Transforming workforce futures: Strategic perspectives and practices for university micro-credentials

Abstract

The global workforce and economy are at a crossroads. Amidst the dramatic economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations in the public and private sector are increasingly faced with new economic and workforce imperatives for the future (Carnevale, Fasules, and Campbell, 2020). Moreover, recent trends in the high cost of higher education, employer concerns about graduate skills and competencies, and student frustrations about lack of job opportunities have all been a catalyst for universities, independent credentialing agencies, and leaders of national qualification frameworks to rethink the broader credentials continuum.