Micro-credentials

Digital Promise believes that high-quality, competency-based micro-credentials and learner-centered credentialing tools are the key to providing historically and systematically excluded learners with opportunities for empowerment through recognition and advancement.

About Digital Promise Micro-credentials

Digital Promise Micro-credentials leverages digital credentialing technologies to support learners and organizations through competency-based micro-credentials hosted on our assessment platform. Our work is grounded in the Digital Promise Micro-credential Design Principles, which include our research-backed competency-based framework and insights from years of research.

Building and Rewarding Lifelong Learning

As people gain new skills throughout their lives they need ways to validate and share what they know and can do. Digital Promise Micro-credentials provide a flexible way to recognize and reward learning and growth no matter where it happens.

Digital Promise Micro-credential Design Principles

• Competency-Based: Each micro-credential focuses on a specific skill and explains what a learner needs to do to prove they’re competent in that area. The skill is evaluated using a strict framework that measures a learner’s ability.
• Research-Backed: Each micro-credential and our assessment framework are based on solid research. The micro-credential references all the research and resources that explain the what, how, and why of each skill. Our competency-based framework is built on learning sciences research and has been tested and proven effective by thousands of users.
• Personalized: With hundreds of individual micro-credentials available on demand, learners can customize their learning journey to fit their specific needs. They have the freedom to choose which skills they want to be recognized for.
• On-Demand: Learners can start and continue their micro-credential journey at their own pace.
• Shareable: Learners have lifelong access and can decide when and with whom they share them. For example, they can add micro-credentials to their résumé and online profiles, showcasing their skills.
• Recognition: Learners can earn recognition for their specific skills, no matter when, how, or where they acquired them. The micro-credential verifies that they have demonstrated the skill according to our assessment criteria.

Our Micro-credential Platform

The Digital Promise Micro-credential Platform hosts, assesses, and issues competency-based micro-credentials. With an ever-growing library of topics, Digital Promise’s platform is the only non-profit platform providing micro-credentials assessed by experts who recognize performance in real life rather than course participation or completion. With hundreds of affordable options combined to create custom pathways, earners can focus on specific skills or competencies they need or are interested in, rather than following a one-size-fits-all pipeline. After submitting, earners receive high-quality feedback through a double-blind process from humans, not AI. With these options, learners can focus on specific skills or competencies they need or are interested in, rather than following a prescribed curriculum.

Explore our micro-credential catalog to see for yourself.