What I learned from this module is a stronger standard for judging a credential's worth. The push I hear from district leadership is that a credential has to be industry-recognized and industry-validated, and my pushback has always been that recognition depends on who's doing the recognizing -- the entity that cares most about a Microsoft credential is usually Microsoft. This module gave me clearer metrics to grade against: industry-recognized, stackable, portable, and accredited. I intend to apply it by grading candidate certifications against all four criteria and using that as the language to argue for the ones that genuinely hold up.
