Higher Ed Can Close the Skills Gap—But Only by Rethinking Digital Credentials

The Value of Microcredentials for Industry: Workforce Development and Productivity in Alberta and Canada

Vis Naidoo | Associate Vice President of Continuing Education and Professional Studies, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)

The Momentum of One Million: University of Phoenix’s Digital Badge Milestone

Cate Tolnai | Director of Micro-Credentials & Innovation Credential Strategy, University of Phoenix

Aligning Microcredentials for Canada’s Future Workforce

Cheryl Kinzel | Dean of Academic Innovation and Pathways, Bow Valley College

As institutions, government and industry work toward greater alignment, microcredentials are...

From Confusion to Connection in Credentialing

Errin Heyman | Associate Vice President of Learning Experience, National University

Today’s fragmented credential ecosystem makes it difficult for learners to navigate pathways and...

Designing Translation, Not Conversion: Aligning Noncredit Microcredentials with Academic Credit

Christine Billings | Director of the Division of Continuing Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha

If you work in continuing education or academic advising long enough, you’ve likely fielded some...

Scaling Digital Credentials Requires Strategy, Not Just Technology

Nancy Byron | Assistant Dean for Marketing, Academic Innovations, Strategic Partnerships, Georgia State University

Across higher education, digital credentials have moved from experimentation to strategic...

Badges Won’t Save Us: What Skills Credentialing Actually Requires

Tara J. Konya | Director of MBA and Graduate Business Programs, University of New England

When we set out to embed skills-based digital credentials into our online graduate business...

From Training to Transcript: Employer Partnerships for Workforce-Ready Credentials

Braden Marie Reed | Senior Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Accreditation and Assessment, Coastal Bend College

Employers across multiple sectors are facing persistent talent shortages while investing...

Vitality of a Cohort Model to Implement Digital Credentials

Zach Dane | Director of Instructional Technology Operations, NYC Department of Education

Digital credentials provide learners with the ability to not only compile their experiences and...

From Faculty Buy-In to System-Wide Impact: Rethinking Microcredentials at Scale

Jennifer Potter | Associate Director of the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, University System of Maryland

As higher education works to better connect learning with real-world value, microcredentials are...

I Am Retiring. Can the Term “Noncredit” Retire Too?

Jo Alice Blondin | President, Clark State College

“So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing...