Microcredential Resource Center

Many professional, continuing, and online (PCO) units develop microcredentials as a way to generate revenue and increase access for non-traditional learners. While these are laudable goals, without enrollment at scale, it is difficult for units to achieve positive margins, or simply break even, on their microcredential offerings.

This resource center brings together EAB’s research on microcredentials to provide PCO leaders with best practices for building microcredentials that are financially sustainable and aligned to institutional priorities. Explore our range of tools, briefings, and recorded presentations below.

• What is a microcredential?

  A microcredential is a codification of a package of learning smaller than the amount required for a traditional credential and designed around a specific skill or competency (rather than an entire body of knowledge).