Rebecca Ferguson is Professor of Learning Futures at The Open University, where she was academic lead of the University's microcredentials programme for two years. She has been actively involved in microcredential production, teaching, assessment, quality enhancement, and policy making - as well as completing a postgraduate microcredential as a learner. As lead academic of the FutureLearn Academic Network, she has also been involved in research, scholarship, and evaluation of this new type of credential.