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1EdTech's 2023 Annual Report highlights growth in membership, innovation, and resources.

/PRNewswire/ -- Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit driving transformation in the U.S. workforce and education systems, today announced a $14.5...

When memory meets privacy, an LLM becomes a life-long companion.

By designing for and prioritizing the needs of the new majority rural learners, the cohort will not only design and implement new pathways to economic mobility — but also catalyze broad transformations across the postsecondary education-to-workforce landscape.

LAKE MARY, Florida, April 17, 2024 — A coalition of national associations that represent stakeholders on college campuses have come together to address a common challenge post-secondary institutions face in adapting learning and preparing learners for employment: slow adoption of digital credentials. Too many institutions are not yet poised to respond to the increasing demand for micro-credentials, badges, and other digital credentials that learners can use as clear evidence to prospective employers of their skills, knowledge, and abilities.

Fewer people are earning degrees for the second year in a row, but certificates are having a moment, according to a new report.

Two years ago, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-wage workers attain upward mobility, established a venture arm,

Most of the students aim to get a bachelor’s degree. Few earn one.

Accenture's $1 billion investment in LearnVantage, an AI-powered learning platform, aims to bridge the growing skills gap and help businesses upskill their workforces to capitalize on emerging technologies like generative AI, cloud computing, and cybersecurity.

Franklin Cummings Tech is proud to be a founding member of the MassSkills Coalition, launched this week by Governor Maura T. Healey.

Texas colleges are thinking about how to prepare students for a changing workforce and an already overburdened faculty for new challenges in the classroom.

Society and the workforce must accommodate the dynamics of continuous change.

A new report says that skills-based hiring is overtaking the resume, representing a more effective, efficient and cost-effective way to hire candidates.

Doris Savron, vice provost of Colleges, Assessment and Curriculum at University of Phoenix, joins Marc to discuss the transition to skills-based hiring in the w

A new report shows that, even after businesses announce dropping college degree requirements for jobs, most hire college graduates anyway.

Along with promoting apprenticeships, the new executive order re-establishes labor-management forums between federal unions and agency managers.

The startup building infrastructure for trusted data markets on the Cosmos blockchain, cheqd, has confirmed its attendance at the upcoming ETHDenver 2024, one of the biggest events in the crypto calendar.

London, United Kingdom, February 21st, 2024, Chainwirecheqd, the startup building payment infrastructure for decentralized identity and trusted data economies, where users and organizations have full control and

Auth0 recently published an in-depth explanation of Verifiable Credentials (VCs). The article emphasizes the potential of VCs to transform how identities are managed online. It highlights the limitations of current identity systems and how VCs can address these gaps, particularly in allowing identity claims to be disclosed without issuers knowing, thereby enhancing privacy and control for users.

Deloitte announces the integration of KILT Blockchain technology for issuing “reusable digital credentials to support KYC and KYB processes.“

A pilot for sharing higher education credentials is kicking off in Spain with self-sovereign identity technology supplied by Gataca.

The DHS is making $1.7 million available for participants in contracts to develop and adapt digital wallets for security checks.

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Science & Technology Directorate has issued a call for digital wallet proposals

There is extensive work in the community to standardize elements involved in decentralized identities, and soon it will be much easier to use them.