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Chapter 19 - Shared Learning in Higher Education

Toward a Digitally Induced Model

from Part V - Certification and Diplomas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2022

By
Ulrich Hommel  and
Kai Peters
Edited by
Andreas Kaplan
Andreas Kaplan
Affiliation:
ESCP Business School Berlin
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Summary

This chapter examines the origins and the future role of digitally induced shared learning and, in this context, of micro-credentials as a currency towards earning a degree qualification, possibly in combination with the flexibility where to seek the qualification. We argue that the general trend towards the deinstitutionalization of tertiary education, to be understood as the unbundling and re-bundling of educational services, will help to make digitally based micro-credentials fungible by taking advantage of the so far reluctantly utilized degrees of freedom for accreditation and assessment more liberally. The COVID pandemic is encouraging a merger of the world of theoretically face-to-face programmes, now delivered virtually, and the world of MOOCs and micro-credentials. It will ultimately change the underlying economics of shared learning and will thereby help to make it a core feature of a much more accessible higher education.

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AccreditationDeinstitutionalizationDigital LearningHigher EducationLearning PlatformsMicro-CredentialsMOOCsOnline LearningPrior LearningShared Learning
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Digital Transformation and Disruption of Higher Education , pp. 239 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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