In order to meet the requirements of the modern educational landscape and promote individual educational biographies, compact and flexible courses are required. Micro-credentials courses meet this requirement by providing learners with specific knowledge, skills and competencies in small learning units of 1-5 ECTS that are tailored to social, personal, cultural or labor market needs. This establishes a new format in the educational landscape that complements traditional qualifications with a tailor-made compact format and can be placed between certificates of attendance and university certificates in terms of the scope of learning.
At the same time, micro-credentials are subject to EU-wide standards that guarantee the transparency and transferability of qualifications.
If you are interested in this topic or would like to support a pilot project at OTH Regensburg, we look forward to hearing from you. Please contact Verena Horrmann at servicestelle-lehre(at)oth-regensburg.de with your questions, suggestions and ideas on the topic of micro-credentials.