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Calvin offers professional development for working adults to enhance knowledge and skills in specific subject areas.

Professional Development Microcredentials by Sector

In today's fast-paced environment, many professional development opportunities take the form of microcredentials - short, innovative, skills-based learning experiences designed for learners to upskill or cross-skill and add value to their career. Calvin is currently pursuing non-credit-based microcredentials for purposes of upskilling and reskilling. These may also contribute to a degree-bearing program when combined through a pre-determined pathway that demonstrates evidence of undergraduate or graduate-level learning.

    Learn.calvin.edu

    Learn.calvin.edu is Calvin's learning management system for non-credit bearing educational offerings. Courses currently offered on Calvin's learn.calvin.edu platform include:

    Reflecting Faith - Professional development courses for faculty

    These courses are available for registration as self-paced courses for $100. They are also offered as instructor-guided courses for cohorts from institutions or groups at rates negotiated with the de Vries Institute. Contact Matt Lundberg with questions.

    Health Care - Professional development for nurses

    These courses have been developed and are currently available for cohorts but not for individual, self-paced registration. Contact Abbie Lipsker for details and registration.

    • Understanding and Assessing Pain
    • Managing Pain
    • Anxiety, Angina and Attack: Knowledge and Best Assessment Practices for Chest Pain in Psychiatric Inpatients

    Diversity, equity & inclusion - Professional development opportunities

    • Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
    • Cultural Intelligence for Ministry Leaders

    Create an account at learn.calvin.edu and then select Calvin Offerings to register for a course.

    Digital badging

    After completion of a microcredential through Calvin, learners earn a digital badge certified by Credly. The badges are embedded with meta-data that external constituents can use to verify the learning outcomes, skills and competencies acquired, and criteria for earning the badge. Earners of digital badges can share or display their badges on various online platforms such as LinkedIn, social media sites, email signatures, and e-portfolios. In need of a certificate of completion? Those are provided in the Credly platform as well. 

    View our badges

    • What are the benefits of a badge?

      Badges provide concrete evidence of skills that you have learned to external constituents. Unlike a paper transcript, a badge gives an inside look into what you learned to earn the credential. Credly’s Acclaim Platform also offers labor market insights, based on your skills. You can search for jobs and career opportunities by title, location, employer, and salary range. 

    • What is Credly?

      Credly is a company that creates, issues, and manages digital credentials. Thousands of organizations use Credly to recognize achievement. 

    • How will I know if I've earned a badge?

      If you completed a badged experience, you will receive an email from the Acclaim Platform (admin@credly.com) with instructions for claiming your badge and setting up your account. You can set up your account to automatically accept badges from Calvin in the future. 

    • What if I don't want my badge to be public?

      You can configure your privacy settings in the Acclaim Platform. You’re in control of the information and you can keep your educational achievements private or choose to share them. 

    • Is there a fee to use Credly's Acclaim program?

      No. Calvin University provides the service at no cost to you. 

    • What's to keep someone from copying my badge and using it?

      While the badge appears as a digital image, the meta-data behind that image is uniquely linked to Credly’s Acclaim Platform and to you specifically. The link to verified data makes a digital badge more secure than a paper certificate. 

    • Where and how can I share my badge?

      You can share your badge directly from Credly’s Acclaim Platform to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and ZipRecruiter; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature. 

    Are you an external organization interested in creating a custom microcredential? Please tell us more.


    Are you a Calvin faculty member interested in launching a microcredential? Start the process.

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