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How schools can streamline their alternative credentials programs

University Business

Alternative credentials have become a driving force in education, increasingly favored by non-traditional students who helped reverse a decade-plus long trend of declines that started in 2010 and fell sharply during the pandemic. Working with businesses looking to hire skilled employees is an essential part of that.

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Breathing with double lungs: How higher education can thrive in a changing market

University Business

Higher education is at a crossroads that demands immediate action: We must innovate with new revenue streams or face the adverse effects of an impending enrollment cliff. I think of these lungs as Core Education and Education Expanded. Few institutions in higher education are successfully implementing these concepts.

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Why higher ed needs to get on board with micro-credentials

University Business

More from UB: How AI and other technology will fix value leakage in higher education How schools can benefit from a joint-developed micro-credential curriculum Sixty-eight percent of employers would like to be approached by a college or university to develop micro-credentials, and there are multiple reasons this would be beneficial to both parties.

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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018. “We could reverse [that trend] by giving them educational products that will get them reconnected, that will value their prior learning, that will get them to that degree.”

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The Value of Micro-Credentials for Higher Ed Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 154 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Matt Frank

The Change Leader, Inc.

After years of working for nonprofits and in higher education, Matthew became frustrated with the many disconnected legacy services that dominated those industries and fell backward into the world of SaaS technology. I started off in the education and nonprofit world X number of decades ago. Matt, welcome to the show.