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From Authentic Learning to Competency Recognition: The Designing Microcredentials Online Course Is Here

How to turn your learning experience into a microcredential

During Winter 2026, we held a Microcredential Mapping bootcamp for faculty and the Designing Learning & Microcredentials Beyond the Classroom series for staff. We received strong interest in...

Posted: July 27, 2026, 8:05 AM

Abstract illustration of a university campus and learners connected by a pathway representing learning, assessment, quality review, and credential verification, culminating in a digital microcredential badge.

Your Teaching Already Does This. Let's Make It Count.

What faculty said after a bootcamp on microcredential design

This is the second post in our series on the new LER briefs. Catch the intro post here if you missed it. In January, six faculty members spent two days in UMBC's first Microcredential Mapping...

Posted: July 22, 2026, 8:35 AM

Verified digital credential connected to five surrounding elements representing learning, student identity, guidance, institutional trust, and educational achievement.

A New Series: Understanding Microcredentials — From Wherever You Sit

Why one explainer was never going to be enough

If you've bumped into the word "microcredential" on campus this year, in a course, an advising conversation, a hallway conversation, a Shriver Center flyer, you've probably noticed it means...

Posted: July 15, 2026, 8:35 AM

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