Professional Certifications: A Quick Path to Career Advancement
Professional certifications signal to an employer that you have proven mastery of a given,...
Flipping the Classroom
The flipped classroom is creating waves across the education space, and it is time for college and...
Bringing Prior Learning to the Forefront
The College of St. Scholastica, a Roman Catholic college in Minnesota, has developed a degree...
Why Companies Want Competency-Based Education
Given the critical importance of employee competence in today’s workforce, competency-based models...
Facilitating Student Success through the Acceptance of Credit in Transfer
By accepting credit and work done at prior institutions and through other learning providers,...
The Benefits of Competency-Based Education for Adults
As the workforce moves in the direction of learning validation over prior credentials—which is the...
Digital Badges: A More Viable Currency for Returning Adult Students?
Badges provide employers with a significantly more comprehensive idea of what their prospective...
Adult Education and ePortfolios
ePortfolios provide learners with the opportunity to blend their in-class learning with the...
Recognizing, Supporting, and Attracting Adult Learners with Digital Badges
Through the natural capacity to share digital badges through social media and other online tools,...
Disruptive Technologies Key to Making Degrees Useful Again
The college or university degree remains the major signal for an educated adult, and has been for...
American Council on Education Looking to Recommend MOOCs for Credit
Last week, the American Council on Education agreed to review a number of massive open online...
Top Five Tips for Designing Adult Programming
Adult learners are extremely busy and higher education institutions should aim to ensure that their...
