Developing a more granular and equitable approach to the learner-earner journey: the role of badging, micro-credentials and 21st Century Skills within higher education to enable future workforce development

Barty, Grame, Boyer, Naomi, Chrysikos, Alexandros, Griffith, Margo, House, Kevin, Laughlin, Taura, Ossiannilsson, Ebba, Ward, Rupert and Zanville, Holly (2022) Developing a more granular and equitable approach to the learner-earner journey: the role of badging, micro-credentials and 21st Century Skills within higher education to enable future workforce development. In: Global Future Skills project. Springer Nature. (In Press)

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Abstract / Description

This chapter introduces trends within the global skills economy and explores how our learner-earner journeys can best align to these trends. It starts with a discussion of future global workforce skills requirements from higher education courses and discusses emerging future skills. It then considers how schools can align with higher education and workforce requirements through a skills-based approach to delivery and how higher education courses can better align to schools, workforce requirements and other potential outputs. The chapter then explores validation models, micro-credentials and alternative credentials, considering alongside this the role of equity within skills-based education and hiring systems. Finally, it concludes with some key policy and process considerations.

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: Badges, Micro Credentials, Future Skills, Skills Based Education, 21st Century Skills
Subjects: 000 Computer science, information & general works
300 Social sciences > 370 Education
Department: School of Computing and Digital Media
Depositing User: Alexandros Chrysikos
Date Deposited: 23 Feb 2023 09:54
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2023 09:54
URI: https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/8329

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