A Texas-Sized Push for Microcredentials

As a humanities professor who has been teaching in his field for more than two decades, Jude Okpala has encountered all the most common criticisms of his discipline: that the study of humanities doesn’t lead to #employment, for instance, or that its graduates do not find immediate economic success in the work world.
That’s why, when Okpala first learned of The University of Texas at San Antonio’s (‪@utsa‬) plans to embed #microcredentials into existing courses and degree programs, he knew he wanted his humanities students to participate.
“Connecting the humanities to the microcredential is a way, really, to not only take into consideration all of this critique of the humanities, but to create a bridge between the study of the humanities and employment,” said Okpala, professor of instruction in the Department of Philosophy and Classics at UT at San Antonio.
The program at UT at San Antonio is part of the University of Texas System’s embrace of microcredentials. Funded in part by Strada Education Foundation’s Beyond Completion Challenge, nine UT campuses have embarked on their own microcredential offerings designed to meet the regional needs of their student populations, and a new partnership with Coursera makes online professional training available to all UT students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
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