Higher education microcredentials in Australia and India: Challenges, opportunities and change
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The Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne hosted the webinar – Higher education microcredentials in Australia and India: Challenges, opportunities and change on Tuesday, 20 September 2022.
As education technology advances and higher education institutions continue to transform teaching and learning in the face of COVID disruptions, the place of higher education microcredentials is rapidly changing in Australia and India. Policymakers, institutional leaders and educators in both countries are interested in opportunities for shorter-form courses to encourage lifelong learning in quality education, position students to transition successfully to employment, and rapidly upskill workers.
Complementing other webinars on education technology and opportunities in the school education, coaching and test preparation sectors, this webinar explored the emerging regulatory frameworks, platforms and practices around higher education microcredentials. We heard about innovations encouraging increased participation in quality higher education, lifelong learning, upskilling and articulation to further education. We explored opportunities and challenges associated with collaboration between India and Australia on higher education microcredentials.
Presentations
- Introduction to the National Microcredentials Framework Speaker: Professor Pip Pattison, former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at the University of Sydney and member of the Microcredentials Working Group
- Microcredentials in Australian universities: Cross-border opportunities: Professor Michael Sankey, Director Learning Futures and Lead Education Architect, Charles Darwin University, and President, Australasian Council on Open, Distance and eLearning (ACODE), and Dr Ratna Malar Selvaratnam, Manager, Learning Technologies & Innovation, Edith Cowan University Microcredentials Mark
- Microcredentials Marketplace: Josh Donnelly, Director, Student Projects Team, Australian Government Department of Education
- MOOCs in India Speaker: Professor R Srivastava, Additional Director, Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
Further Reading
- Department of Education, Skills and Employment and PWC. (2021). National Microcredentials Framework. Australian Government.
- Universities Australia. (2021). Guidance for portability of Australian microcredentials. Universities Australia.
- Selvaratnam, R. M., & Sankey, M. D. (2020). An integrative literature review of the implementation of micro-credentials in higher education: Implications for practice in Australasia. The Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 12(1), 1-17.
- Selvaratnam, R. M., & Sankey, M. D. (2020). Survey of micro-credentialing practice in Australasian universities 2020. An ACODE Whitepaper – 25 August 2020. ACODE.
- Oliver, B. (2019). Making micro-credentials work for learners, employers and providers. Deakin University.
- Noonan, P. (2019). Review of the Australian Qualifications Framework. Australian Government.
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency. (2019). Guidance note: Credit and recognition of prior learning. Australian Government.
- Australian Qualifications Framework Council. (2013). Australian Qualifications Framework (Second edition). Australian Government.
- University Grants Commission. (n.d.). Draft National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF). Government of India.
- University Grants Commission. (n.d.). Guidelines for providing Skill Based Education under National Skill Qualification Framework. Government of India.
- Ministry of Finance. (2013). National Skill Qualification Framework. Government of India.
- University Grants Commission. (2022). University Grants Commission (Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Higher Educational Institutions to offer Twinning, Joint Degree and Dual Degree Programmes) Regulations, 2022.
- University Grants Commission. (2018). University Grants Commission (Online Courses or Programmes) Regulations, 2018.
- Ministry of Education. (2022). About SWAYAM.
- Ministry of Education. (2022). Academic Bank of Credit. Government of India.
- University Grants Commission. (2022). Instructional template for facilitating implementation of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).
- Government of India. (2022). National Curriculum Framework – Documents. National Council of Educational Research & Training.
- DNA Web Team. (October 10, 2022). Digital University to begin in India by July 2023: Know how it works, courses to be offered. DNA India.