MOOC-based micro-credentials for teacher professional development (CRED4TEACH)

The CRED4TEACH project responds to the needs of higher education institutions and educational decision makers in target countries Albania, Montenegro and Ukraine towards providing high-quality, responsive, inclusive, flexible and competence-based training provisions to in-service teachers across the educational sectors. The project’s solution is to establish the MOOC-based micro-credentials for enhancing the opportunities for teacher professional development in target countries. The project objectives are:

• to boost staff skills for the development and delivery of MOOC-based Micro-credentials;
• to develop and introduce national and institutional frameworks for the delivery, issuing and recognition of Micro-credentials,
• to create, deliver and validate 11 pilot MOOC-based Micro-credentials,
• to encourage the wider adoption of Micro-credentials for professional development of teachers and other target groups.

 

To achieve the project objectives, CRED4TEACH partnership will:

• upskill teaching and administrative staff from participating partner institutions to MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) and micro-credential designers;
• create national and institutional guidelines for offering and validating micro-credentials,
• design, deliver and validate 11 pilot micro-credentials using MOOC approach
• promote the achieved results through a large-scale dissemination campaign.

 

The expected results of the project are:

• 46 teaching and administrative staff members upskilled to micro-credentials and MOOC-designers;
• 11 MOOC-based micro-credentials, each between 4-6 ECTS, delivered to at least 220 pilot teachers from Albania, Montenegro and Ukraine;
• 3 national and 8 institutional frameworks on the provision and recognition of micro-credentials for teachers;
• 3 national blueprints on adoption of micro-credentials.

 

CRED4TEACH partnership covers 15 institutions from 7 countries, which are Albania, Estonia, Germany, Montenegro, Portugal, Türkiye, and Ukraine:

• Fachhochschule des Mittelstandes (Bielefeld, Germany)
• Universidade Aberta (Lisboa, Portugal)
• Tallinn University (Tallinn, Estonia)
• Anadolu University (Eskisehir, Türkiye)
• Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogics Academy (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
• Cherkasy State Technological University (Cherkasy, Ukraine)
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University (Melitopol, Ukraine)
• Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University (Drohobych, Ukraine)
• National Qualifications Agency (Kyiv,Ukraine)
• Universitetit te Vlores (Vlore, Albania)
• Universeti Shkodres Luigj Gurakuqi (Shkodre, Albania)
• Agjencia e Sigurimit te Cilesise se Arsimit Parauniversitar (Tirana, Albania)
• Univerzitet Mediteran Podgorica Privatna Ustanova (Podgorica, Montenegro)
• Javna Ustanova Univerzitet Crne Gore Podgorica (Podgorica, Montenegro)
• Agencija Za Kontrolu I Obezbjedenje kvaliteta Visokog Obrazovanja (Podgorica, Montenegro).

 

The project is being coordinated by Fachhochschule des Mittelstandes (Bielefeld, Germany), www.fh-mittelstand.de

 

Coordinator contact:

Ms Olga Zubikova, project coordinator: olga.zubikova@fh-mittelstand.de

Mr Sascha Lord, scientific head of the project: sascha.lord@fh-mittelstand.de

 

Project lifetime: June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2026 (36 months)

Awarded grant: 700 193,00 EUR