MoWINs: Creating Win-Wins through Partnerships
Dawn Busick-Drinkard | MoWINs Project Director, Missouri Community College AssociationBeginning in 2011, Missouri’s community and technical colleges banded together to apply for three rounds of the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT grant program. Since the consortium was formed, thousands of…
The Evolving Transactional Nature of Credentialing: The Future of Alternative Credentials
Jonathan Finkelstein | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, CredlyAs the distinction between learning at colleges, universities and workplaces continues to erode, credentials are supplanting the traditional role of the degree in terms of skills verification. Unlike the degree,…
The Importance of Collaboration in Competency-Based Education Programs
Brooks Doherty | Assistant Vice President of Academic Innovation, Rasmussen CollegeCall it self-paced. Call it time-fluid. The essential characteristic of competency-based education, or CBE, is that learning and its demonstration are prioritized over time spent learning. Whether the CBE program…
Guiding Philosophies for Launching an Online Education Office
Robert Griffiths | Associate Vice President of Distance Education and eLearning, Ohio State UniversityIn an earlier post about the strategies I used to grow an online education office and weave online practices into the fabric of Ohio State University, I mentioned that how…