Assuring the Quality of Credentials to support Learning Innovation

While traditionally students could depend on recognition of widely understood signals of experience and expertise such as university degrees the same cannot be said for the creatures of MOOCs such as ‘nanodegrees’ and ‘specialisations’.

While it is clear that degrees from accredited HEIs consist of the gold standard in terms of their recognition and portability no clear set of comprehensive criteria exists to assess the quality of new forms of credentials nor for standards and technologies which are applied to credentials. The authors therefore propose a framework for such analysis in the form of a set of quality characteristics for credentials based on work conducted by the OEPass project.

This paper was presented at EQAF and reflects the views of the named authors only.

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