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Whether you're exploring career options, preparing for your next internship, or bringing new AI skills to your current profession, this is an opportunity to celebrate your learning and build...

The Microcredential Review Board (MRB) has approved 20 new microcredentials! These new offerings recognize learning and experiences across the classroom, professional development, leadership,...

We are excited to share a new way for authorized microcredential issuers to issue digital badges directly through myUMBC. Instead of submitting a ticket each time you need to issue...

Microcredentials are showing up in exciting places across UMBC! 🎉 At this year's Teaching & Learning Symposium, two UMBC teams will share how they're using them to help students recognize,...

PRAC 122 enrollment closes tomorrow, September 18! If you’ve been thinking about enrolling in the Google Career Certificates Practicum, now is the time to sign up. PRAC 122 is a free, 0-credit,...

A new case study by Collin Sullivan and Felipe Filomeno examines how UMBC has integrated microcredentials across academic, co-curricular, and community-engaged learning experiences. From Campus...

Through UMBC’s partnership with Google and higher education partners, eligible students, alumni, faculty, and staff can access online, self-paced professional certificate programs designed to help...

This is the seventh and final post in our series on the new LER briefs. Over the past several weeks, we've looked at UMBC's microcredential work through five different lenses — faculty,...

The Microcredential Review Board (MRB) will hold five review cycles in Fall 2026. If you are developing a new microcredential proposal or preparing one for review, please plan around the...

This is the sixth post in our series on the new LER briefs. Catch the intro post here if you missed it. Over the last several posts, we've looked at microcredentials from the vantage point of...