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Microcredentials

Learn Emerging Skills for a Changing Workplace

To thrive in your career, you must keep pace with new developments and emerging skills, and Western’s Microcredentials will redefine how you consume quality Higher Education experiences. They are a great way to maintain currency in your field.

Microcredentials are designed to be short, stackable, industry relevant, and digitally credentialed learning experiences, all hosted within our microcredentials platform Open Learning.

Created in conjunction with leading industry partners, our suite of Microcredentials expands across all areas of study including in Business, Medicine, Nursing, Education, Engineering, Environmental Science, IT, Sustainability and more.

Unlock the Power of Shielding Gases to Elevate Your Welding Skills

With the development of the new Western Sydney International Airport and surrounding Aerotropolis, industries such as advanced manufacturing, defence and aerospace, pharmaceutical manufacturing, freight and logistics, and agribusiness are growing.

The Bradfield Development Authority is a growing centre for innovation where the skills needed to fill new jobs are changing. The Industry Skills Accelerator fills this gap by working in partnership with industry and leading education providers to deliver microcredentials – short, targeted training courses – that allow workers to quickly build the knowledge, skills, and experience that employers need.

BOC and Western Sydney University have teamed up through the Industry Skills Accelerator at Bradfield Development Authority to produce this 35-hour course at BOC's Minto Tech Facility.

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Institute of Applied Technology Construction

The Institute of Applied Technology (IAT-C) offers a variety of stackable microskills and microcredentials designed by industry experts to provide you with practical, hands-on learning experiences and the construction skills employers want.

The courses cover the following skill areas:

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Your Future at Your Pace.

  4. Lantite Numeracy
    1. Teacher Professional Learning

    LANTITE Numeracy

    Professional learning: CPD

    Prepare for success with LANTITE Numeracy. This self-paced course will develop your understanding of mathematical content, enable you to apply numeracy skills, and support you with activities to enhance your problem-solving and mathematical reasoning.

  23. Metal Additive Manufacturing
    1. Industry Skills Accelerator

    Metal Additive Manufacturing

    Skills

    Essentials of Additive Manufacturing is a microcredential designed to provide participants with an introduction to additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, a process that creates a physical object from a digital design file. Additive manufacturing enables engineers to design parts, systems and shapes once thought impossible to make. Additive manufacturing allows for complex design geometries, making products that are lighter, stronger and more efficient, revolutionising products in many industries.

  27. Sustainability
    1. Construction

    Sustainability

    Institute of Applied Technology

    Sustainability is an increasing necessity in construction. Projects now need to focus on innovative materials, energy-efficient designs, and practices that minimise environmental impact.

  30. Lantite Literacy
    1. Teacher Professional Learning

    LANTITE Literacy

    Professional Learning: CPD

    Engage, Prepare and Succeed with the LANTITE Literacy Microcredential. This microcredential will help you achieve the required standard for the (LANTITE) in Literacy to complete your teaching program.

  37. Skills
    1. Industry Skills Accelerator

    Introduction to Manual Composite Layup Techniques

    Skills

    This microcredential course is jointly developed by WSU (Mechanical, Mechatronic and Robotic Discipline Team, Launch Pad Team and 21C Project Team) and Quickstep through a co-design, co-delivery and co-review process under the framework of the Industry Skills Accelerator proposed by the Western Parkland City Authority as one of its microcredential courses on Advanced Manufacturing.

  38. Advertising Media: Harnessing the Data
    1. Data Science

    Advertising Media: Harnessing the Data

    Professional Learning: CPD

    Considering a career in the Communications industry? In this microcredential, you'll be introduced to the fundamentals of Advertising Media. Co-designed with our industry partners, you'll learn basic media concepts and calculations which can open the door to a diverse and exciting career.

  58. R for everyone an introduction
    1. Data Science

    R for Everyone: An introduction

    Professional Learning: CPD

    R is a free language created to be used to teach statistics. Today, R is one of the most powerful and flexible statistical environments. After some familiarity with the R language, you will be able to build your own functions or edit functions developed by others for your own specific use.

  73. Digital Skills
    1. Construction

    Digital Skills

    Institute of Applied Technology

    Digital skills in construction refer to the proficiency and ability to use digital technologies, software, and tools to enhance various aspects of construction processes.

Why choose Microcredentials at Western?

Our Microcredentials are versatile and can comprise one or more features:

  • Innovative & Current 
  • Co-designed with industry partners 
  • Available online and can be started anytime 
  • Self-paced or scheduled 
  • Address professional learning needs or Continuous Professional Development (CPD) requirements 
  • Designed by world-class academics 
  • May contribute towards credit when enrolling in a qualification

I wish this short course was available to me before coming into a nursing degree. It would have helped me so much doing this course before I started as a Bachelor of Nursing student, it would have prepared me so much more.

Thank you, WSU, for being a huge part of my journey into nursing through the attainment of the degree. As a mature age student and having worked from the ground up, from AIN to EN, and now RN, I am excited about what my future holds.

 - Susanne Rust, Preparation for Tertiary Nursing Studies

Frequently Asked Questions

Microcredentials are industry relevant, university certified courses which enable you to address professional learning needs and advance your skill set without needing to commit to a full multi-year degree.

The National Microcredentials Framework defines microcredentials as a certification of assessed learning or competency, with a minimum volume of learning of one hour and less than an AQF award qualification, that is additional, alternate, complementary to or a component part of an AQF award qualification.

Microcredentials at Western are taught through the online learning platform OpenLearning. Through this platform you are able to learn at your own pace through interactive and engaging modules. Through these courses you are also part of a growing classroom, able to connect with other learners and your teacher. Some specialised courses are also taught through online zoom sessions and face-to-face sessions on campus or other facilities.

Each course landing page will provide the following information:

  • Course summary
  • Learning outcomes
  • Any prior learning requirements
  • Duration or estimated hours to complete
  • Delivery mode (e.g. fully online, scheduled webinars etc)
  • If the credential can be used for credit towards a subject or program at Western Sydney University

Upon successful completion of each microcredential, you will receive a digital credential in the form of a badge and/or certificate. Western uses Accredible, which enables you to securely access and share your achievements at any point in time.

Digital credentials are badges and/or certificates which note the completion of Microcredentials and provide additional evidence of your commitment to increasing your skill set in a particular field.

These credentials can be shared to social media and professional networking sites (e.g. LinkedIn) or embedded in email signatures, websites and more.
Learn more about digital credentials at Western here.

Please refer to the individual microcredential landing page.

Microcredential Stack means a cohesive set of microcredentials that collectively meets specified learning outcomes.

FEE-HELP is not available for Microcredentials through Western at the moment, but is subject to change in the future.

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