MOOC-based micro-credentials for teacher professional development
Short description:
Project goals and objectives:
The CRED4TEACH project responds to the needs of higher education institutions and educational
decision makers in countries Albania, Montenegro and Ukraine towards providing high-quality,
responsive, inclusive, flexible and competence-based training provisions to in-service teachers across the educational sectors. The project’s solution is to establish the MOOC-based micro-credentials for enhancing the opportunities for teacher professional development in target countries. The project objectives are:
– to boost staff skills for the development and delivery of MOOC-based Micro-credentials;
– to develop and introduce national and institutional frameworks for the delivery, issuing and recognition of Micro-credentials,
– to create, deliver and validate 11 pilot MOOC-based Micro-credentials,
– to encourage the wider adoption of Micro-credentials for professional development of teachers and other target groups.
Activities:
To achieve the project objectives, CRED4TEACH will:
– upskill teaching and research staff from participating partner institutions to MOOC and micro-credential designers;
– create national and institutional guidelines for offering of micro-credentials,
– design, deliver and validate 11 MOOC-based micro-credentials,
– promote the achieved results through a large-scale dissemination campaign.
Expected results:
1. 46 teaching and research staff members upskilled to micro-credentials and MOOC-designers;
2. 11 MOOC-based Micro-credentials in UA, ALB, MNE, each between 4-6 ECTS, delivered to at least
220 pilot teachers;
3. 3 national and 8 institutional frameworks on the provision and recognition of micro-credentials for teachers;
4. 3 national blueprints on adoption of micro-credentials.