eLearnAfrica
Higher Education 4.0: Certifying Your Future
Dublin City University
  • Start Date: 08 Mar, 2021
  • 3 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Explore what the future holds for higher education and discover the new educational models and pathways for 21st Century learners.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Explore new university accreditation models and pedagogical approaches


This course explores the changing nature of higher education through the lens of the ECIU University initiative.


On this three-week course, you’ll reflect on major educational trends impacting higher education today and consider how universities can be ‘future-fit’ in our increasingly digital world.


You’ll also evaluate how higher educators, policy-makers, and governments should respond beyond the COVID-19 crisis.



Social, technological, and employment trends and innovation are all significantly impacting the higher education sector today.


You’ll explore the challenges these changes pose, as well as how they’re shaping the European Skills Agenda – a five-year skills development plan for individuals and businesses based on strengthening sustainable competitiveness, ensuring social fairness, and building resilience in crises.


Discover emerging higher education pedagogies


You’ll study new and emerging pedagogies, and learn how they can be used to better prepare today’s students for the workplace.


You’ll also gain expert insight into authentic, learning-centred approaches, including how they can be used to provide efficient and effective frameworks for deep, meaningful, and impactful new forms of learning.


Explore new approaches to higher education


The rise of microcredentials is recognising diverse skills and providing new pathways for lifelong learning.


You’ll consider why traditional credentials are no longer entirely fit for purpose, and identify the value and potential of these new shorter offerings.


The final sections of the course will ask you to examine cases and examples of how ECIU partner universities are responding to embrace transformative disruptions and explore new digital learning models.


This course is designed for anyone interested in conversations around the future of universities, as well as a desire to understand new accreditation/certification models, and pedagogical approaches.


This may include educators working in universities as well as academic staff at educational institutions.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

Dublin City University

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.
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