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https://www.brandeis.edu/online/academics/microcredentials/index.html

Note the two "credentials" are AI for STEM and prompt engineering.

Nobody has any business calling these things "credentials", or suggesting they are credentials by naming them "microcredentials". You can't go to your boss waving your prompt engineering microcredential and get a raise, or even a microraise for that matter. You can't access more competitive jobs after obtaining one of these microcredentials.

If they were serious about credentialing people, these would definitely not be the first two made available. They couldn't be more transparently venal. This isn't about credentialing, it's an attempt to profit from the AI bubble.

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They are offering you crumbs of an education, on which they hope to profit still, while hollowing out their own institutions.

Eating the seed corn.

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