Various articles along the lines of Is Competency-Based Education Worth The Investment have surfaced in recent weeks. And no wonder. Something like 500 colleges and universities are preparing to launch new competency-based education (CBE) programs, up from an estimated 52 last year. But where are all...
Opening Plenary: 21st Century Credentials: Learners + Institutions + Workforce
Growing a business is like running a marathon. But instead of jogging 26.2 miles, that's how many dollars-in billions-Microsoft forked over to acquire LinkedIn.
Practice makes perfect, and one company is willing to bet on it. Video learning platform ApprenNet is changing its name to Practice XYZ.
The tech community isn't so much a community as it is a sprawling metropolis, with more and more programmers released into the Silicon Valley wilds by the year. IBM alone hopes to train 1 billion data scientists over the next few years. It's training these scores of...
A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor of meeting Commerce Secretary Pritzker when she visited Galvanize - a startup that believes in making education and growth accessible to anyone - especially underrepresented groups in the tech industry. As a recent graduate of Galvanize...
With all the focus on Black Lives Matter, gay marriage and transgender rights, perhaps women's issues are for the history books? Not so much. In the high-tech industry, often synonymous with progress, women are waging a battle for equity, inclusion, fairness and respect that echoes campaigns of the past.
Depending on whom you ask, degrees are either increasing in value or about to disappear into the dustbin of history. A new report by The Brookings Institution shows that the bachelor's degree premium remains as high as ever. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs says...
Colleges and universities are under fire. Skepticism, once limited to for-profit and vocational programs, now confronts the degree itself. Our most venerable institutions of higher education are being asked to move beyond what...
Credential innovation is a hot topic in higher education, from microcredentials to digital badges, from competency-based and clickable transcripts to stackable credentials. Case in point: to facilitate dialogue, Lumina Foundation launched...
