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