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This paper offers new empirical evidence on the current offer of micro-credentials across OECD jurisdictions, and provides an account of what is known about the costs and benefits of short learning programmes offered by higher education institutions.

This paper offers new empirical evidence on the current offer of micro-credentials across OECD jurisdictions, and provides an account of what is known about the costs and benefits of short learning programmes offered by higher education institutions.

This paper introduces the Common Microcredentials Framework, whose final aim is, from one side of facilitating the development of these types of programmes among traditional institutions and MOOC providers, and, from the other side, their recognition among European higher education institutions.

The fifth edition of the Envisioning report for Empowering Universities, by the expert pools of the Empower programme.

An overview of perceived issues of quality and assessment related to the shift to online and distance learning modalities that educators had to undertake when the pandemic hit.

Adopting smaller forms of credentialed learning, when embedded in a coherent framework, may deliver more flexible, stackable and transformative learning experiences.