Professional Development
Higher education is no longer a one-time, four-year affair. Today, working professionals must continually upgrade their skills and update their knowledge in order to keep pace with changes happening across the labor market. Offering valuable professional development experiences will keep today’s lifelong learners coming back for more.
Supporting Soft and Technical Skill Development: The Role of Postsecondary Institutions in Delivering Balanced Ongoing Education
PK Agarwal | Regional Dean and CEO, Northeastern University-Silicon ValleyThere are higher expectations on employees in today’s labor market than ever before. Employers expect their employees to engage in continuous, lifelong learning simply to remain on top of the…
Understanding and Contextualizing Corporate Universities
Didina Gonzalez | Learning Innovation and Impact, Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning AllianceThe concept of the corporate university has changed significantly since it first appeared in the mid-20th century. Corporate universities were originally introduced as a response to traditional academic institutions that…
10 Tips on Embedding Industry and Professional Certifications in Education Programs
Holly Zanville | Strategy Director, Lumina FoundationMore and more of today’s students stand to benefit from a promising new trend: certification-embedded education programs. These are partnerships between education institutions and industry and professional associations that stack…
Recognizing Faculty Commitment and Workload using ePortfolios and eBadging
Lara Madden | Professional Development and Community Coordinator, University of Alaska Anchorage“I need to move my class online, and I need to know how.” This is a statement heard on a regular basis here at University of Alaska Anchorage’s (UAA) Academic…
Five Trends Driving Employers to eLearning for Corporate Education
Kathy Amato | Director of Marketing, CoggnoOver the past few years more and more individuals, businesses and corporations are turning to eLearning. There are a handful of explanations for this great shift. Let’s list off a…
Professional Development in a Changing Educational Online Environment
Jose A. Rodriguez | Assistant Dean in the School of Education, American Public University SystemTechnology is changing the educational landscape across the United States. Advances in technology are forcing online educational institutions to continue to innovate while forcing traditional institutions to offer variant forms…
Addressing the “Why” and the “How” of Employee Professional Development
Jessica Fyffe | Human Resource Assistant, Stanley ConsultantsRead any business publication and the rapid changes occurring in the economy are reflected. As companies seek to achieve sustainable growth, part of their strategic investment must be focused internally,…