Today we unpack the trend of micro-credentials in universities. My guest is Leesa Wheelahan who connects micro-credentials to the gig economy and discusses their implications for higher education credentials and qualifications.

Leesa Wheelahan is professor emerita at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is also an honorary research fellow at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford and a Honorary Senior Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne.

She’s recently co-written with Gavin Moodie two articles: Gig Qualifications for the Gig Economy: Mirco-credentials and the hungry mile and Revisiting Credentialism – Why qualifications matter: A theoretical exploration.