Not-for-credit Microcredentials
Develop new, relevant and demonstrable skills that can give you an edge in a competitive job market. These professional courses allow for lifelong learning, with a focus on up-skilling and re-skilling.
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For-credit Microcredentials
Showcase industry-recognized skills and competencies to future employers and graduate schools. For-credit microcredentials stack into degree programs and certificate programs.
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School of Education Microcredentials
Whether you’re a current student or a working professional, microcredentials will help you develop new, relevant and demonstrable skills that can give you an edge in a competitive job market.
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Communicating International Education
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
As current international education professionals, learners collaborated editorially to develop effective written communication about international education. Earners have mastered "nut graphs" and other writing organizational techniques to marshal facts, organize ideas, and craft effective arguments to advance understanding among key audiences and stakeholders, in accordance with the Standards of Professional Practice put forth by Association of International Education Administrators.
Connected Strategies for International Education
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Earners of this micro-credential develop a plan to use technology to create new programs and reshape existing programs in international education to meet students’ global learning needs and increase their resilience to environmental risks. Participants identify current technology, learning and organizational resources on campus and develop connected approaches including virtual exchange and shared network strategies, which they integrate into their own virtually connected internationalization strategies.
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Crisis Leadership in International Education
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
International education crises can take many forms, from dealing with specific health and safety matters for students abroad, as well as macro-level challenges such natural disasters, cybersecurity, terrorism, and pandemics. As current international education professionals, learners explored how to evaluate and prioritize risks and existing response policies, prepare for a potential international crises, and lead an institutional response through the development of a Crisis Management Plan.
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Data-Driven Decision Making in International Education
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Earners of this micro-credential develop the skills and disciplines needed to make critical informed decisions in international education through the Management Accounting framework. Participants examine international education scenarios and identify the financial and qualitative data analysis needed for a decision. Earners also examine risks factors and ethical issues associated with specific decisions.
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Education Abroad - Trends, Strategies & Tactics
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Earners are both senior and line officials responsible for building and sustaining education abroad programs and services. Participants can identify and analyze key trends in education abroad and outline approaches, strategies, models, resources, and practices to keep education abroad a high value offering in higher education. As architects of the future of education abroad, earners have developed a five-year strategic management plan for their institution.
Foreign Credential Evaluation
Level: Professionals
Instruction Method: Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Sessions
This microcredential focuses on foreign credential evaluation in the strategic international enrollment management environment. Learners examine the history of foreign credential evaluation, its evolution in the US, and the growth of this skillset into a new profession. Learners also practice the practical application of foreign credential evaluation skills in international education scenarios.
Global Alumni Relations
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Earners are both senior and line officials responsible for building and sustaining strategic relationships between international students, alumni, and families to promote internationalism for their university. The earner has developed critical management skills to lead, plan and manage an effective global alumni engagement strategy adapted to their campus and professional needs. They can communicate the value proposition of the program and align internal priorities to support the alumni plan.
Immigration Compliance, Policy Development and Risk Management
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Learners have developed a comprehensive understanding of Student and Exchange Visitors Program (SEVIS) and key compliance elements. The participant can use this knowledge and understanding to revise and draft new institutional policies to incorporate best practices and anticipate, manage and mitigate the major risks to the institution, students, and scholars they serve. Using a critical-incident approach, learners can create operational solutions for compliance and risk management situations.
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Improvement Science for Organizations
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Earners develop leadership skills to engage in systemic improvement initiatives in education and other social sector organizations. Improvement Science, championed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, has emerged as an evidenced-based process for affecting positive and lasting change. Participants develop skills to effectively use improvement tools and processes to address root causes of sub-optimal outcomes for students and identify drivers for improvement.
Improvement Science Leadership
Level: Graduate
Instruction Method: Online
The earner of this micro-credential in Improvement Science Leadership is a leader and practicing professional who can engage in systemic improvement initiatives. This earner can act as a change agent and galvanizer for improvement in their organizational settings. Settings typically include education and other social sector organizations.
Lean Process Improvement and Institutional Operations
Level: Professional Development
Instruction Method: Online
Earners of this micro-credential develop an understanding of lean process improvement (LPI) techniques, which are heavily influenced by Japanese and US production and organizational leadership philosophies. Participants apply core concepts to create an initial LPI plan for an institutional operation of their choosing, with a focus on international programs. The plans use LPI methods to substantially decrease workload, reduce errors and obtain a higher student yield without expanding budgets or staff.
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International Education Partnerships
Level: Professionals
Instruction Method: Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Sessions
Learners explore the critical aspects of developing and sustaining strategic and productive international partnerships as it relates to their own institution.
Through analysis of case studies, learners examine common models of structuring, contracting and evaluating international partnerships and the infrastructure needed to do so.
They also develop protocols for leading and hosting international delegations, and tracking and reporting on international activities.
(Re)positioning International Offices
Level: Professionals
Instruction Method: Synchronous Online Sessions
This microcredential is designed for international education professionals, leaders, and future leaders needing tools and strategies for taking their institution to a higher level of international engagement, regardless of their starting point or institutional stature. The power and impact of international education on students seems to enjoy recognition as a universally-understood benefit in an era of rapid globalization, yet it is also constrained by the hard truths of internal barriers and external challenges and new barriers to international travel. Through specific exercises, readings, and projects in this rigorous module, participants will push themselves and develop both professional skills and valuable deliverables to implement changes to international education operations in their own settings.