Sustainability Learning in new Formats: Micro-Credentials as a powerful tool for curriculum design

Programme description

Micro-credentials as a relatively new teaching format have gained wide attention in the community of educational scientists and practitioners. They open opportunities to widen participation of hard-to-reach target audiences and thus help increase the inclusivity of educational provisions. Mastering the requirements of designing micro-credentials is thus an essential competence for future educationalists. The proposed activity is addressing students of study courses in the educational sciences and aims to familiarize them with pedagogical and didactical implications of the development of micro-credentials.

The module will focus on sustainability learning content-wise. Students will learn how to integrate micro-credentials on sustainability learning into existing curricula, and how to develop new curricula on the matter of sustainability, utilizing the pedagogical approach of micro-credentials. The activity further aims to promote international cooperation.

It is thus important to incorporate accreditation procedures in the development of micro-credentials to achieve conformity with the requirements of the Bologna process. The module will thus qualify students for a range of development tasks, ranging from didactical and pedagogical aspects of educational design to its managerial dimensions (quality assurance, educational management). The outcome will be the capability to develop a comprehensive perspective towards the design of up-to-date teaching and learning process with particular emphasis on education for sustainable development. The proposed BIP will be creditable to existing study programmes of the participating universities. All of which offer courses in educational sciences and/or the Humanities. It will thus be relevant mostly for graduate students (MA level) of teacher training programmes and education science courses, but also for post-graduate students and post-doc researchers and practitioners who oversee designing and implementing educational provisions.

The learning format will be rather in a workshop mode than in “ex-cathedra teaching”: It will purposefully bring together senior scientists and practitioners with novice students to involve them in shared learning experiences. Both perspectives, either driven by professional knowledge or by personal experiences, will be enriching for each other. Students are going to experiment with actual tasks when designing educational provisions. Practitioners and scientists are going to provide valuable input and assessment. This type of co-creation is meant to provide all participants with new learning experiences: Learning by teaching, learning by designing, etc. As a tangible outcome, a set of EU Green micro-credentials will be developed which will be ready to be multiplied across the universities participating in the alliance, to equip them with topic-related learning materials to be used in their educational provisions and third mission activities.

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