Recommended Topics
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Case Studies. Authors are encouraged to submit case studies on credentials, e-credentials, and/or alternative credentials, such as micro-credentials, digital badges, credits for prior learning, dual-enrollments, and/or other forms of credential innovations. Contents may include, but are not limited to, a summary of institutional contexts, purposes, and types of credentials offered, contents and constructs of the credential model(s), development and implementation processes, data collection and outcomes analysis, and lessons learned and implications for the future.
Theory, Practice, and/or Policy. Authors are encouraged to submit chapter entries on visions, theories, practices, and/or policies on credentials, e-credentials, and/or alternative credentials at regional, state, national, and/or international levels. Contents may include, but are not limited to, analysis/meta-analysis of current policies, practices, progress, challenges, and/or recommendations.
Assessment, Validation, Transparency, Portability and/or E-credentialing Technology. Authors are encouraged to submit chapter entries on innovations in assessment and validation strategies, approaches to increasing transparency and portability, and/or current use and advancement of e-credentialing technology.