Micro-credentials for Professional Development for Educator
Keywords:
Micro-credentials, Digital badges, Professional development, Faculty Development, EducatorAbstract
Micro-credentials (MC) is one form of digital badges, that has been gaining popularity particularly in Europe, North American and Oceania. In Thailand King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) brought this concept for our teaching and learning process that expand to include learners of all ages. The objectives of this article are to compile definition, ecosystem and limitation of MC and to study how MC has helped in human capital development in general and the practice of MC implementation for educator development. MC is a new learning format that focus more on the verification of competence than how and how long the learning process takes place. It is suitable for world that is constantly changing. It has great learning flexibility; thus, become more accessible to general public than the macro-credentials. While learning it also build essential skills such as a learning to learn. MC is also used in educator development both in K-12 and higher education. The educator who has earned MC has confirmed the benefit of MC such as increased learning, improve his/her own job and can be personalized and self-paced.
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