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Certificate of Achievement
Dr. Naraginti Amareswaran Reddy
has completed the following course:
Higher Education 4.0: Certifying Your Future
Dublin City University and National Institute for Digital Learning
This course was a future-focused masterclass designed to explore and help participants understand three major educational trends: i) the new skills agenda; (ii) the emergence of micro-credentials; and iii) new and emerging models of authentic and engaged pedagogy. The three dimensions of this course are highly relevant in understanding how higher educators, policy-makers and governments respond to the future beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Mark Brown
Professor of Digital Learning & Director of The National Institute for Digital Learning,
Dublin City University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the importance and challenges of defining new future skills
- Consider how to conceptualise these skills in a changing world, including the possibility of micro-credentials as representations of new forms of learning
- Explore how to assess the quality, scalability and credibility of various types of credential
- Learn about innovative and applied case studies from DCU, at which a learning-centred pedagogical model has been designed and implemented
- Explore diverse perspectives on these future challenges and the demands for new, flexible forms of certified learning
Syllabus
The course explores three key themes which each address the overarching question: What will the university of the future look like? In exploring this question the course is structured around central core topics. You will explore…
- How changing social, technological and employment trends are impacting the higher educational sector
- The potential of new approaches to credentialing, including micro-credentials, as a means of recognising diverse skills and providing new pathways for lifelong/life-wide learning
- New and emerging authentic pedagogies as vehicles for bridging and border-crossing between universities, industry partners and community groups in preparing 21st Century learners
- Case studies of how ECIU partner universities are responding to embrace transformative disruptions exploring new digital models and pedagogical approaches with different stakeholder perspectives.
Issued on 15th June 2022
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