Challenges and New Directions
Microcredentialing: AITG Badging Program
- Challenge: synchronous format and scalability
- Challenge: adapting to target audience needs
- New approaches:
- moving away from entirely synchronous format
- developing new courses and conflating others
Self-directed Learning: 4-week MOOC
- Challenge: MOOC learning patterns & certificate enrollments
- Challenge: peer review participation
- New Approaches: still in early stages of evaluating the learning experience
Professional Certificate Approach: 32-week IADP program
- Challenge: program length
- Challenge: comprehensive one-size-fits-all approach
- New approaches:
- shorter certificate options
- tracks aimed at more specific target audiences, like administrators and managers, web developers and application designers, instructors and instructional designers