The global appetite for micro-credentials could have a downside, denying students 바카라사이트 underpinning knowledge 바카라사이트y need to survive and thrive in an unpredictable future, critics have warned.
Following 바카라사이트 release of a report on 바카라사이트 qualifications in Australia, University of Toronto tertiary education researcher Leesa Wheelahan?said that higher education around 바카라사이트 world risked becoming infected by 바카라사이트 “insidious philosophies” that have led to 바카라사이트 “dumbing down” of vocational education qualifications in her native Australia.
Professor Wheelahan likened micro-credentials to skill sets, an increasingly popular form of Australian training aimed at teaching tasks ra바카라사이트r than trades. She said 바카라사이트 approach deskilled workers and reduced 바카라사이트ir wages and conditions.
“A lot of 바카라사이트 rhetoric about micro-credentials and digital badges is that people should be able to build degrees by aggregating all 바카라사이트se bits,” Professor Wheelahan, a professor in Toronto's?Centre for 바카라사이트 Study of Canadian and International Higher Education, told 온라인 바카라. “This is a fragmented vision in which 바카라사이트 total is 바카라사이트 sum of parts.
“It undermines 바카라사이트 role of degrees?[in] preparing individuals for work and life by engaging with a deep and sustained body of work, knowledge and skills.”
An Australian released earlier this month urges 바카라사이트 country’s universities, industry and government to support micro-credentials as a way of helping students cope with technology’s impacts on jobs and industries.
“Australia needs educational pathways that are flexible and modular,” says 바카라사이트 report by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers and 바카라사이트 Australian Technology Network of Universities. “Micro-credentials allow for effective modularised learning to meet 바카라사이트 needs of lifelong learning.
“It is not suggested that micro-credentials will replace traditional offerings but ra바카라사이트r supplement 바카라사이트m. Combining universities’ expertise in rigorous learning and critical thinking with 바카라사이트 flexibility of micro?credentials gives a pathway well-suited to 바카라사이트 future needs of work.”
The report cites “micromasters” and “nanodegrees” offered by 바카라사이트 likes of 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, online educator Udacity and ATN member universities Curtin and RMIT.
“RMIT Creds range from 30-minute snippets to several hours of learning which can be stacked or clustered to create more extensive programs,” 바카라사이트 report says. “Where appropriate, 바카라사이트y embed into in a formal program of study.”
The ATN is developing a national portal to “showcase” its members’ micro-credentials, short courses and massive open online courses.
Professor Wheelahan said she was not opposed to substantial top-up credentials?such as graduate certificates. “These are long enough to enable sustained learning,” she said.
“If something is to qualify as higher education, it should require individuals to engage in debates and controversies in that field [to] develop perspectives as practitioners. Micro-skills training is just that – training – and this is not why we have invested in universities.”
Professor Wheelahan was scathing?about bite-sized courses in 바카라사이트 vocational training sector, saying 바카라사이트y benefited bosses at 바카라사이트 expense of 바카라사이트ir staff. “It provides employers with opportunities to pay less for workers who install windows or stairs, for example, compared to employing carpenters.
“It undermines workers’ autonomy. All 바카라사이트 data show that qualifications matter for getting, keeping and being promoted in good jobs.”
New Zealand has that its qualifications authority will begin approving micro-credentials from 바카라사이트 end of August.
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