Increasing Opportunity For Credit-Bearing Students through Non-Traditional Divisions
Paolo Gardinali | Associate Director of the Division of Professional and Continuing Education, UC Santa Barbara ExtensionCaught between the professional development focus of continuing education and the credit-bearing world of traditional academia, non-traditional, credit-bearing students—those seeking to pursue or complete a degree through non-traditional channels—are an…
How Everyone Benefits from Badging: A Guide to Mainstreaming Digital Credentials
Elisabeth Rees-Johnstone | Executive Director of Continuing Education and Professional Learning at OISE, University of TorontoDigital badging has been on our radar in one form or another since the mid 2000s. Think about your first Xbox experience years ago, when you’d gleefully collect digital badges for…
Five Biggest Roadblocks to Transitioning into Teaching
Cathy Vandewater | Community Manager and Senior Editor, Teach.comAs the prevalence of lifelong occupations wanes in these dynamic times, more and more professionals are reinventing themselves through second or third careers. But these new opportunities also present challenges…
Pursuing a Major Business Process Improvement Implementation: Establishing Priorities, Getting Started and Staying Focused
Nick Farthing | Project Manager and Business Analyst in Information Technology, Ithaca CollegeThis is the final installment of a three-part series exploring why you might take on a major project, reflecting on who needs to be involved (and when/how), and discussing what…