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Communicating the Value and Variety of Micro-credentials in Education

This issue brief from The Teacher Quality Programs Technical Assistance Center (TQP TA Center) highlights how stakeholders involved in micro-credentialing efforts have communicated the value of micro-credentials to educators and provides a description of how micro-credentials vary on key dimensions based on a scan of existing micro-credentials and conversations with U.S. Department of Education grantees that are implementing them. The brief also shares strategies that grantees implementing these micro-credential initiatives have used to recruit educators to participate.

This report is not affiliated with BloomBoard and was published independently by The Teacher Quality Programs Technical Assistance Center (TQP TA Center), an organization that provides technical assistance and resources to local agencies (LEAs), institutions of higher education, not-for-profit and other organizations receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Education . For more details and information about this report, please visit: https://tqp.grads360.org/#program/resources-and-toolkits

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