{"id":50,"date":"2015-09-09T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proftesting.com\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2017-08-11T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T18:10:57","slug":"201599white-paper-microcredentials-combining-theory-with-real-world-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/201599white-paper-microcredentials-combining-theory-with-real-world-application\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITE PAPER &#8211; Microcredentials: Combining Theory with Real World Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microcredential-White-Paper.pdf\">Microcredential White Paper<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-505 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microcredentials-250x156.png\" alt=\"Microcredentials\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microcredentials-250x156.png 250w, https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microcredentials-120x75.png 120w, https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microcredentials.png 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many industry sectors are experiencing a shortage of skilled and qualified workers. While professional certifications are one way workers can demonstrate their qualifications, they are time and resource intensive coming to market. Also, some jobs require workers with specific skills, rather than the full range of knowledge and skills required to perform an entire job (traditional certification\/traditional job).<\/p>\n<p>The recent evolution of micro-credentials is providing \u201cjust-in-time\u201d credentialing for workers in emerging and rapidly evolving job markets. The clean-energy sector is one such rapidly growing job sector, with many workers from professions performing many components of many jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Microcredential-White-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download the full white paper.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many industry sectors are experiencing a shortage of skilled and qualified workers. While professional certifications are one way workers can demonstrate their qualifications, they are time and resource intensive coming to market. Also, some jobs require workers with specific skills, rather than the full range of knowledge and skills required to perform an entire job (traditional certification\/traditional job).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-white-paper","tag-microcredentials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proftesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}