Marketing micro-credentials: An analysis of actors, voices and messages in educational innovation discourse

• Miriam Reynoldson ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Melbourne

     University of Melbourne

     Australia

     
• Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 60, Nº 6, 2023, págs. 953-963
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Much has been written about the potential of micro-credentials to revitalise and modernise Australian higher education offerings, and to create forms of educational credit linked more meaningfully with industry. Proponents of micro-credentials speak from a range of standpoints: public education institutions, private companies, industry associations, governments, educational technology businesses and more. This review examines the neoliberal reasoning inherent in micro-credential-promoting discourse, both in Australia and globally. It shows that micro-credentials are conceived as a form of product innovation which increase the provider pool to include private companies and technology intermediaries, while students are cast as independent consumers, perpetually responsible for self-managing their own employability education, but this analysis finds student voices and perspectives are absent from the discourse.