2020/21 Special Edition: Micro-credentials and qualifications for future work and learning in a disrupted world

2020-01-31

The Editors welcome submissions focussing on topics including but not limited to the following:

  • Emerging short form learning experiences, collectively referred to as micro-credentials, and their contribution to employability and engaged citizenship. 
  • The value of formal qualifications and the experience of sustained deep learning 
  • Transnational experiences available through digital learning opportunities
  • The relationship of qualifications and micro credentials to evolving ways of learning
  • The relationship of qualifications and micro credentials to evolving ways of working
  • Qualifications, micro-credentials and learning for multiple purposes across the lifespan
  • Qualifications, micro-credentials and emerging recruitment practices
  • Innovations and evidence-based outcomes of micro-credentials, including widening access to educational opportunity and global citizenship 
  • The challenges of ethics, academic integrity and social media traceability in micro-credentials and qualifications
  • Micro-credentials, qualifications, work-integrated learning and career-embedded learning
  • The opportunities to re-imagine assessment and feedback in micro-credentials and qualifications.
  • Quality assurance and qualifications.
Submissions which are empirical, evidence-based or conceptual are encouraged from researchers and practitioners in educational and industry partnerships.

In addition to full articles, we invite experts to submit a short (~1000 words) PROVOCATION to this special edition. Subject to peer review, these PROVOCATIONS are intended to showcase thought, leadership and expert commentary on the future of credentials for work in a disrupted world.

Prospective authors who are not already registered with the Journal should first register as an author and then follow the link to the on line submission process.

Please read the Submission Instructions for Authors before using the on line submission process. (This may take a few seconds to download in a new window).

The Editors welcome authors to informally discuss potential submissions before the submission deadline.