Neo LMS
JULY 15, 2021
However, the events of 2020 have put HE on a fast track to digital adoption. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that. Some even offered tuition discounts for students taking online classes.
Edsurge
JANUARY 5, 2021
Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. If these three positive trends do indeed grow in 2021, then perhaps we will take a cup of kindness yet with us from 2020.
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Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The number of middle-skill jobs that require digital skills continues to grow. Last fall, in an effort to address this gap, Facebook pledged to train 3,000 Michiganders in digital skills by 2020 through the Digital Skills Micro-credential program created in partnership with Digital Promise.
Edsurge
MARCH 25, 2021
. • IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020. And at Northeastern University, we’ve articulated IBM’s digital badges and Google’s IT certificate for degree program credit.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Put simply, the short-lived recession of 2020 has given way to a massive shortage of workers and skills in 2021–and placed talent strategy and human capital back at the top of corporations’ strategic agendas. And employers are competing to attract and retain employees in what is being called a “ war for talent. ”
Edsurge
AUGUST 19, 2021
In fall 2020, the American Council on Education started its own effort with $1 million from the Koch Foundation. The council will keep track of the credits that apprentices earn through Credly, a digital badge platform. Congress is considering a bill called the Apprenticeships to College Act that would strengthen the network.
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2020
It is still early in the adoption of these digital hiring practices—and how employers deploy them is still very much a “black box.” As those hiring methods go digital, they could speed adoption of new kinds of microcredentials and digital badges designed to show employers the fine-grained skills achieved during educational programs.
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