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.
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,…
Tuition and Education Support Improves Employee Retention and Business Growth
Florida Starks | Education Leader, Grason Consulting GlobalDeveloping talent within organizations is essential to maintain a competitive knowledge supply-chain advantage. For some organizations, the validation standard for professional development programs involves whether or not alignment to organizational…
The Highly Engaging MOOC: It’s All About Being Social
Amy Rouse | Director, AT&T UniversityNow is an incredible time to be a learning professional. From learning technology to learner methodologies, we’re in a unique place in history. Distance learning is one of the most…