Digital Credential Strategy Series
Scaling Microcredentials: Syracuse University's Blueprint
Recipients of this badge attended Scaling Microcredentials: Syracuse University's Blueprint for Success, an Accredible exclusive webinar.
In this webinar, Arthur Thomas and Allison Roth from Syracuse, alongside Accredible's Mark Feola, shared:
Strategies for developing microcredential governance
Tips for gaining institution-wide collaboration
Solutions to common scaling challenges
The marketing power of shareable digital badges
In this era where 88% of education leaders view alternative and microcredentialing as essential for their future, Syracuse University stands out with a model that's transforming how we think about student achievement and institutional growth. Over the past three years, Syracuse developed and scaled a comprehensive portfolio of instructor-led, instructor-guided, or self-guided microcredentials that's helped thousands of learners across multiple disciplines enhance their professional skills with digital badges and certificates.
Granted, establishing a microcredentialing program and ensuring new course offerings met learners’ expectations and were delivered in a consistent way took a lot of planning, determination, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The results didn’t happen overnight, but the effort has been worth it.
Watch the webinar here.
- Digital Credentialing
- Microcredentialing
- Program Growth
University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business Microcredentialing Journey
Recipients of this badge attended Stacking Success: University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business Microcredentialing Journey, an Accredible exclusive webinar.
In this webinar, Amanda Brantner from University of Illinois, alongside Accredible's Dan Theckston, dove into the challenges of building a microcredentialing initiative, how they overcame them, and the results that have led to stakeholder and learner adoption and expanding the initiative across campus.
University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business has earned global recognition for its innovative and student-centric approach to academic programming. In the last five years, Gies has successfully designed a suite of stackable educational offerings, enabling students to take a course and then apply that credit to the B-school’s highly regarded iMBA or other certificate programs. Since launching the program, Gies has issued nearly 42,000 digital credentials to students — more than 9,000 of which were earned in the last academic year alone.
Granted, establishing a microcredentialing program and ensuring new course offerings met learners’ expectations and were delivered in a consistent way took a lot of planning, determination, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The results didn’t happen overnight, but the effort has been worth it.
Watch the webinar here.
- Digital Credentialing
- Microcredentialing
- Program Growth
Bridging the Gap Between Learning & Employment
Recipients of this badge attended Spotlight Directory: Bridging the Gap Between Learning & Employment, an Accredible exclusive webinar.
In this webinar, Rochelle Ramirez, Vice President of Product at Accredible, lead a discussion about Accredible's Spotlight Directory feature. Rochelle talked about how leading organizations are leveraging both public and private directories to drive career mobility, workforce development, and verifiable talent recognition.
Topics covered in this webinar included:
Current challenges learners and employers are facing with credential utility in the workforce
How program leaders are using public directories to sustain learner engagement and demonstrate return on their investment
How organizations can use Accredible’s new private directory capabilities to identify upskilling opportunities within their workforce and connect employees to new career opportunities
Watch the webinar here.
- Digital Credentialing
- Microcredentialing
- Program Growth