What is Micro-Credential?

Micro-Credentials is the specific competency approval and improvement system. Earners will receive Digital Badges or Digital Certificates after they can demonstrate their proficiency through provided evidence.

  Demonstrate

Everyone can provide pieces of work completed in his current job as evidence for verifying the existing competency. 

Odelia Younge - Director Micro-Credentials from Digital Promise

King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi or KMUTT is collaborating with an expert in Micro-Credentials from Digital Promise in the United States of America which is a nonprofit organization. She helps us in designing and suggesting a framework for competency verification and digital badge earning. She also defines Micro-Credentials as follows:

"Micro-Credentials are digital certifications that verify an individual's competence in a specific skill or set of skills."

Target group

The learners or earners for our products are

  • Internal Customers are KMUTT students and high school students who are about to enter to KMUTT.
  • External Customers or groups of the working-age.

You can listen to all of this information through a podcast by Dr. Klangjai Sithitavorn, an Assistant to the President for Educational Development of KMUTT, in the EP.1: What is a Micro-Credential? You can continue listening to the further information in the MC Starter Pack.

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