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.
Disrupting the Adult Student Lifecycle in Online Higher Education
Dennis Bonilla | Vice President of the Employer and Academic Partnership Group, University of PhoenixI believe the term “disruption” is often misunderstood in the context of innovation. Disruption can be incorrectly perceived as a market breakthrough or an improvement to a typical business trajectory.…
How Industry Associations Can Draw the Map for their Profession, and Where Higher Ed Fits In
Jane Bowen | Chair of the Competency Map Committee, CPA CanadaFor Chartered Professional Accountants (CPAs), the knowledge, skills and abilities required to succeed and advance are shifting. CPA Canada—the national organization representing Canadian CPAs—is working to clarify demands for institutions…
The Shared Value Of Lifelong Learning for Professionals and Employers
Mohamed Markar | Founder and President, Center for Professional Education IncorporatedIn some industries, experience is enough to take a person up the corporate ladder. In other instances, a combination of experience and a college degree may be all someone needs…
The 60 Year Curriculum: Developing New Educational Models to Serve the Agile Labor Market
Chris Dede | Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard UniversityWith the sponsorship of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education (DCE), I’m participating in an initiative centered on The Sixty Year Curriculum (60YC). The Dean of DCE, Hunt Lambert, is leading…
What Will Be Important in the Learn and Work Ecosystem in 2030? How Do We Prepare?
Holly Zanville | Strategy Director for the Future of Learning and Work, Lumina FoundationThis year’s kindergarteners will graduate from high school in 2030. It’s clear that they will need to prepare for a rapidly changing work-and-learn future, as will their parents and the…
Give Us 15 Minutes and We’ll Give You the Skills: How to Provide Ongoing Training for Online Adjunct Faculty
Jeffrey Czarnec | Associate Dean of Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences in the College of Online and Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire University Barbara LesniakWhen you’re dealing with online adjunct faculty, teaching your teachers is a challenge. Full-time jobs, family members, and other responsibilities clamor for their precious time, so how do you grab…
Lifelong Learning Will Prepare Students For Jobs That Don’t Yet Exist
Jeffrey S. Russell | Dean of Continuing Studies and Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning, University of Wisconsin-MadisonNews flash: The future is murky. We all know that accelerating technological change makes it hard to tell what the workforce will look like 20 years from now. Or even…