MOOC-based micro-credentials for teacher professional development (CRED4TEACH)

MOOC-based micro-credentials for teacher professional development – CRED4TEACH

STRAND 2

Duration: 36 months

Budget: 731,730

Keywords: continuing professional development (in-service), recognition of qualifications, teacher professional development, MOOC-based pedagogies, micro-credentials

Description: The CRED4TEACH project responds to the needs of higher education institutions and educational decision makers in countries Albania, Montenegro and Ukraine towards providing high-quality, responsive, inclusive, flexible and competence-based training provisions to inservice teachers across the educational sectors. The project’s solution is to establish the MOOC-based micro-credentials for enhancing the opportunities for teacher professional development in target countries. The project objectives are: – to boost staff skills for the development and delivery of MOOC-based Micro-credentials; – to develop and introduce national and institutional frameworks for the delivery, issuing and recognition of Micro-credentials, – to create, deliver and validate 11 pilot MOOC-based Micro-credentials, – to encourage the wider adoption of Micro-credentials for professional development of teachers and other target groups. Target groups: in-service teachers from secondary schools, VET and HEI sectors. Expected results: – 46 teaching and research staff members upskilled to micro-credentials and MOOC-designers; – 11 MOOC-based Micro-credentials in UA, ALB, MNE, each between 4-6 ECTS, delivered to at least 220 pilot teachers; – 3 national and 8 institutional frameworks on the provision and recognition of micro-credentials for teachers; – 3 national blueprints on adoption of micro-credentialing. To achieve the project objectives, CRED4TEACH will strengthen institutional capacities for the provision of MOOC-based micro-credentials through providing trainings by partners from program countries, create national and institutional guidelines for offering of microcredentials, design, deliver and validate 11 MOOC-based micro-credentials, and promote the achieved results through a large-scale dissemination campaign. The project results will be reflected in the scope of 3 blueprints providing recommendations to educational decision makers towards a national-wide adoption of micro-credentials.