Integrating and Developing Microcredentials

Are you interested in helping your students acquire new skills, expand their knowledge, and demonstrate what they have learned? You can do that with microcredentials.   

Faculty can integrate industry-developed and recognized microcredentials into their curriculum or they can develop them for a class, a major, a club, or all students at UTEP.

To integrate a Coursera certificate into your course, contact the Center for Instructional Design at instructionaldesign@utep.edu. 

To develop a microcredential for your own class and/or other students, complete the microcredential proposal form below.

Microcredential Proposal Form

For an overview of the process, please visit https://www.utep.edu/extendeduniversity/microcredential-pathways/faculty/how-to-guide/.

UTEP Microcredential Summer 2025 Institute

As part of the University of Texas System’s Texas Credentials for the Future: Broadly Educated and Specifically Skilled initiative, we invite up to 12 faculty and staff to participate in the inaugural UTEP Microcredential Summer 2025 Institute. In this institute, you’ll learn from microcredential experts at the University of Texas System, WorkCred, Coursera and Territorium as well as work with UTEP colleagues to integrate and/or develop a microcredential into a course or a program. Everyone who successfully completes the Institute will be eligible to receive $2,000 provided through the Strada Education Foundation Beyond Completion Challenge Grant. If you are considering integrating a Coursera certificate into a course, please review the options available at NO COST to UTEP students here.  

When you apply to the Institute, you’ll be asked to select one of two options. The deliverables for each are included below:  

Option 1: Integrate an industry certificate  

1. Complete UTS Introduction to Microcredentials course  
2. Complete the Coursera microcredential certificate that you plan to integrate 
3. Complete UTEP Microcredential Summer 2025 Institute 
4. Integrate industry certificate into course or program 
5. Teach course with certificate in fall or spring 
6. Report on success 

option 2: Develop a new microcredential  

1. Complete UTS Introduction to Microcredentials course  
2. Complete at least one module of a related Coursera microcredential certificate 
3. Complete UTEP Microcredential Summer 2025 Institute 
4. Develop new microcredential/microcredential pathway 
5. Integrate microcredential into course or program 
6. Implement the microcredential in fall or spring 
7. Report on success 

Tentative Dates and Timeline 

• Week 1: June 4, 10 a.m.-noon, in person 
• Week 2: June 11, 10 a.m.-noon, Teams 
• Week 3: June 18, 10 a.m.-noon, Teams 
• Week 4: June 25, 10 a.m.-noon, Teams 
• Week 5: July 2, 10 a.m.-noon, Teams 
• Week 6: July 30, 10 a.m.-noon, in person 

How to apply

To apply for the Institute, please complete the QuestionPro form here no later than May 5. Applicants may be contacted for more information about the proposal. Everyone will be notified about the status of their applications no later than May 9.  

If you have questions, please direct them to Beth Brunk at blbrunk@utep.edu.