Microcredentials

Microcredentials
At K-State

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Microcredentials
At K-State

About MicrocredentialsFind a Microcredential
About MicrocredentialsFind a Microcredential
K-State Microcredentials
Microcredentials showcase the knowledge you've acquired on the road to mastering skills in your area of interest. Smaller than a minor, certificate or degree program, microcredentials equip learners with digital badges that showcase achievement and demonstrated skills.

K-State Microcredentials

Kansas State University microcredentials are flexible learning experiences that help you quickly gain knowledge and market-ready skills that employers are seeking.

 

Harness the Power of a K-State Microcredential

K-State Endorsed

Quality is paramount. K-State Microcredentials are developed, approved and endorsed by the university.

Flexible Delivery

Market-aligned learning opportunities delivered in a short and flexible time span.

Choose What You Learn

Freedom to learn what you want, without the financial and time commitments of a degree. Microcredentials can be credit-bearing or noncredit.

In-Demand

Microcredentials are designed to meet current and emerging market needs and align with relevant industry standards.

Portable and Shareable

Completion of a K-State Microcredential is highlighted in a digital badge so your achievement and competencies travel with you and are shareable.

Skills-Based

Learn new skills and prove proficiency to potential and current employers.

 

K-State’s Microcredential Framework

As the first operational land-grant university, Kansas State University is uniquely positioned to meet today’s challenges of developing and enhancing human skills and capabilities through education, learning and meaningful work. While delivering curriculum in the traditional form of courses leading to degrees has a long history at K-State, development of a coherent microcredentialing infrastructure is essential to K-State's future and expands the historic access mission of K-State.

Microcredentials are relevant, high quality and market aligned as well as offer pathways to affordable, accessible, focused and immediately acknowledged learning opportunities. They can be credit or noncredit and have the following characteristics:

 

  • focused on learners and their interests, needs, skills and career goals
  • awarded based on demonstrated skill or competency in a specific area(s)
  • developed, approved and endorsed by the university
  • gained in a shorter or more flexible time period
  • stand-alone or stackable