This research explores the effect of implementing educational open microcredentials on student motivation, engagement, and completion in open access online courses. Our case study reviews the impact on the Community of Learning for African PhD Fellows, a capacity-building project supporting PhD fellows in Sub-Saharan Africa. It builds on an…

Facing a future of rapidly changing technology, collaborative workflow, and expectations for autonomy and agility in the workplace, schools must develop non-cognitive skills for 21st-century learners. Micro-schools, an understudied innovative environment, embed strategies for developing student agency, a non-cognitive trait necessary for…

This study uncovers students', professors', and employers' micro-credential programs perceived value. Using a phenomenological methodology, we unveiled the meaning of participants' shared experiences. We performed a narrative analysis of students' written assessments and built a robust information-gathering structure with professors' and…