Increasingly, higher education consumers are looking more granularly at their scholarship — particularly when it comes to professional development opportunities for those already well on their career path.
Higher education in bite sizes: badges, certifications and the boom in ‘micro-credentialing’
- By Creighton University
In an age when both job specialization and constraints on our time have ramped up considerably, full-fledged degree programs don’t always fit the bill. For many looking to gain a career edge, it’s badges, credentials and certifications that have started to emerge as hot commodities — a trend known as micro-credentialing.
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