It can be hard to communicate the skills acquired through education and learning acquired in the workforce to a potential employer. E-portfolios allow students to reflect on their knowledge and…
Tandem Time: How Community Colleges and Workforce Development Programs Go Hand-in-Hand
Alissa Levine | Director of Workforce Development Programs, Kingsborough Community College Jessica CinelliIntegrating Workforce Development programming can be vital to student success and give them more opportunities after graduation while meeting industry needs. Various types of partnerships and collaborations between the institution…
Continuing Education lives in a space with more flexibility and looser state regulation, which can lead to it being thought of as separate, or different, from the rest of a…
Using AI-Powered Simulations for Students and Employers
Deborah Hurst | Former Dean of the Faculty of Business, Athabasca University Richard DixonSimulations could be the future for workforce training, allowing students, and employers, to get to grips with what a job requires without the obstacles that can hinder a workplace. In…
Recognition of Prior Learning: RPL Perspectives from Down Under
Joanne Ayoub | Learning, Competency, and Capability Lead, Transport for New South WalesHow We Built an Experiential Learning Program at an Online University
Michelle Love | Academic Program Chair, Western Govenors University Jonathan HuckSkills Equal Success: Focusing on the Value of Learning Outcomes
Andy Jett | Dean of the College of Professional Schools, Avila UniversityBuilding a Bridge Between Degree-Credit Education and the Workforce
Jeff Harmon | Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Institutional Effectiveness, Thomas Edison State UniversityComprehensive Learner Records Impact on Students
Kelly Hoyland | Higher Education Program Manager, IMS Global Learning ConsortiumNew Ways of Documenting Student Success: Comprehensive Learner Records
Jeff Bohrer | Technical Program Manager, IMS Global Learning ConsortiumIntroducing Digital Learning Records to Learners
Mark McConahay | Associate Vice Provost and Registrar, Indiana University Tom GreenAssessment is Not a Four-Letter Word
Cathrael Kazin | Managing Partner, Volta Learning GroupCreating an Education for Industry 4.0
Gregory Crawford | President, Miami University
No matter what education path someone takes, work-based and experiential learning will always hold high valueāsomething that community colleges need to incorporate into their program models.Ā Community colleges are there…
The Virus that Opened the Floodgates to Change
Holly Zanville | Research Professor and Co-Director of Program on Skills, Credentials and Workforce Policy in the Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University Mary WalshokAs COVID-19 has been a wakeup call for institutions to prepare for natural disasters, itās critical to rethink education and workforce training that will allow people to continue working and…
Variously called project-based, hands-on, laboratory, experiential or tactile education there is no question that learning while doing is one of the most effective ways to learn a new concept or…
Integrating Employer Engagement with Experiential Learning in Response to the New Normal
Charles Kilfoye | Assistant Vice President of Employer Engagement & Career Design, Northeastern UniversityCOVID-19 has forced every college and university to re-evaluate its value proposition as more and more of the traditional student experience moves online or remotely.Ā One part of the value…
Credentialing in the COVID-19 Landscape
Sean Gallagher | Executive Director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, Northeastern University Holly ZanvilleJuly Is Coming: Medical Education and Physician Trainee Turnover in 2020
Sarah Diekman | Resident Physician and Student in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, John Hopkins UniversityDelivering on Demand: Working with Employers to Fill Skill Gaps
Sandy MacDonald | President and CEO, Holland CollegeOur Shared Responsibility in Expanding Competency-Based Programming
Kelle Parsons | Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research Jessica MasonHelping Adults Change Careers with a Pathway to Practice
Alison Winzeler | Alternative Licensure Director and Pathway to Practice Coordinator in the College of Education, North Carolina State UniversitySupporting The Adult Learner Lifecycle Through Prior Learning Assessment
Tracy A. Costello | Assistant Director of Prior Learning, National Louis University Joseph LevyValidating Competencies and Skills Gained Through Rigorous Assessment
Jason Meyers | Senior Manager of Psychometrics, Western Governors UniversityCollaborative Education: How Universities Can Bridge the Labor Market Skills Gap
John LaBrie | Dean and Associate Provost for Professional Education, Clark UniversitySharing the Competency-Based Studentās Experience
Jill Loveless | Vice President of Academic Affairs, West Virginia Northern Community College
As the dean of an online competency-based education (CBE) program at a traditional private university, I frequently get calls from leaders at other universities wanting advice on how to launch…
How to End the Negativity Around Liberal Arts, For Good
David Schejbal | President, Excelsior CollegeOn any given week, a scan of headlines in the higher education periodicals and local and national newspapers yields several articles about the role and fate of the liberal arts.…
āSki the slope, not the mountain,ā a wise professor once told meāmeaning donāt worry about everything you will encounter down the mountain, only focus on what is right in front…