Microcredentials and Skills Badging

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Learners who earn verifiable, nondegree online offerings targeted to specific industries sometimes struggle to enter the information into employers’ hiring platforms.

Shortly after I posted my blog article about the Rory McGreal and Don Olcott paper

Credential As You Go is committed to a nationally adopted incremental credentialing ecosystem that improves education and employment outcomes for all learners. Credential As You Go is an initiative and partnership between SUNY Empire State College; the Program on Skills, Credentials & Workforce Policy at George Washington University; and Corporation for a Skilled Workforce.

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity ...

Two decades ago, companies began adding degree requirements to job descriptions, even though the jobs themselves hadn’t changed. After the Great Recession, many organizations began trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the authors studied more than 50 million recent job announcements. The bottom line: Many companies are moving away from degree requirements and toward skills-based hiring, especially in middle-skill jobs, which good for both workers and employers. But more work remains to be done.

Studying the role of the faculty and staff in the course-articulation process.

Education Strategy Group (ESG) and the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) are leading the Non-credit and Credit Alignment Lab (NCAL), a two-year initiative to support 14 community college governance units (e.g., systems, districts, or colleges) in developing new or improved pathways between non-credit and credit programs.

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Today’s high school graduates are increasingly questioning whether higher education is worth it, and that’s pushing colleges to rethink the value they ...

You may be familiar with recent skills initiatives in the United States, such as the Skills Renewal Act and the Skills Investment Act.

This is one of 15 projects, nationwide, being funded by as a way to improve post-graduation outcomes students from underrepresented students.

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The State University of New York is expanding its microcredentials program.

New research from Coursera reveals that industry micro-credentials tailored to specific jobs, like Professional Certificates, are gaining popularity among students and employers around the world.