CredencialTEC: Guía para el Diseño Curricular de Microcredenciales como complemento del plan de estudio de la carrera de Ingeniería en Computación del Tecnológico de Costa Rica

Microcredentials are digital certifications that arise in response to the labor market's need to verify the skills and abilities acquired by applicants beyond what a professional title may indicate that, although they are far from dispensing with formal education, they do. More tangible evidence is required of what the professional knows or can do according to technological trends in a constantly changing world. In the same way, microcredentials can solve knowledge needs within a study plan, which would otherwise have to go through a long-term updating process, through optional courses (electives) to meet a specific demand.
Currently, the world of microcredentials has been led by private companies that provide the service, as well as organizations that are not specifically educational, generating difficulty in the credibility of many of these certifications due to the lack of rigor in their design. It is in this context that Higher Education Institutions are called to lead this new field of qualifications so that microcredentials have the support and experience of these formal education houses, implementing a curricular design with quality and transparency criteria.
This is a qualitative study from action research that seeks to address the growing need of the employer sector to demonstrate the skills and abilities acquired by students during their university education in a more tangible and specific way, such as microcredentials. However, at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica, there are still no experiences related to the subject in curricular matters. This study seeks to generate a guide of criteria and requirements necessary for the design of microcredentials as a complement to the curricula of undergraduate courses. The research is planned in two development steps, the first is the generation of the guide from a documentary study, the information collected for the guide will be validated through semi-structured interviews with curriculum experts. A second step will be the application of the guide for the design of microcredentials as a complement to the curriculum of the Computer Engineering degree at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Once the microcredentials are designed, they will be verified with students and teachers. of the degree and information will be collected through focus groups, and validation will be carried out through data triangulation.

Diseñar titulaciones simultáneas de habilidades técnicas como parte del plan de estudios de la carrera de Ingeniería en Computación del Tecnológico de Costa Rica.

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