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Micro-credentials and learning passports

The recognition and transfer of individual credits through ECTS was created for an era of physical mobility, and is optimised accordingly. EU recognition instruments, such as the diploma supplement and the EQF, support the award of qualifications in the areas of formal learning, and are supported by recognition procedures for non-formal and informal learning.

While these tools can be used to support open education and virtual mobility, a number of caveats exist to their use, including that:

little to no guidance exists on how to document virtual mobility / open education experiences for the purposes of credit transfer;
procedures for recognition of prior learning or of non-formal/informal learning do not scale to the massive numbers of students enrolling in open education programmes such as MOOCs;
there is no European approach to recognising, transferring or scaling open education modules.

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How an ideal DUC course would look like?

Industries generate more and more data (see Internet of Things, BigData, etc), and along with it the requirement of not only technical, but also strong analytical skills. Business Intelligence technology makes complex data analysis easier to perform without the need of low-level programming skills. Thus, understanding and communicating data become critical for companies, and data […]

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Launch of AVAL – Added VALue Learning for Preeschool Teachers & Pedagogical Coordinators

The Center for Learning Innovation and Adult Learning takes part as the Hungarian partner in the newly launched AVAL project, funded within the Erasmus + programme, coordinated by the Madrid based World Association of Early Childhood Educators (AMEI-WAECE). The project will run for 24 months. The project will address the field of ethics and values […]

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Second edition of the D-TRANSFORM MOOC University Strategies in the Digital Age has been launched – join now

Join this self-paced MOOC (you can progress through the course at your own speed) to learn about digital resources, and especially OER and MOOCs, as a strategic factor for university transformation, with a special focus on teaching and learning processes.

The course promotes executive reflection on hands-on challenges and offers networking opportunities in a non-formal context.

The target audiences of the MOOC are: university rectors, vice-rectors, rector’s delegates for elearning, rector’s delegates for university third mission, deans of faculties, directors of operational units in higher education institutions and anybody interested in the digital strategy of universities.

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