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These 10 schools found their footing creating quality alternative credentials

University Business

Among the first objectives in Kansas State’s 2023 strategic plan is to enroll 5,000 to 7,000 alternative credential-seeking learners by 2030 across continuing education courses, micro-credentials and industry training collaboratives. It took 10 months for the university to implement the system.

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How Post University’s Career Readiness Model Can Help Not-For-Profit Universities and Graduates: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 172 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Camille Dumont

The Change Leader, Inc.

She successfully transferred the skills she learned in the hotel industry to the healthcare industry and now to higher ed, where she works in Career Services. So, I started to do some networking and ultimately got an opportunity with a healthcare organization out in Queens and Long Island. I was a healthcare administrator.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

As universities realize that traditional enrollments may be harder to reach, I’m hearing a lot more talk about competency-based education (CBE), micro-credentials, and aligning education with skills, and work. Will the continuous education approach be taken up more broadly by a wider range of industries?

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The Value of Micro-Credentials for Higher Ed Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 154 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Matt Frank

The Change Leader, Inc.

We’re utilizing the tools and skills we’ve learned through continuing education programs, non-degree certificate programs, or credentialing programs because they’re practical, and they’re directly applicable to the rules that we have today. And it’s highly focused on technology. Does that make sense?

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Strategic Considerations for College Leaders Exploring Short-Term Credentials: Changing Higher Ed podcast 253 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Jinann Bitar

The Change Leader, Inc.

We used Credential Engine data, which is the largest national registry on credentials, and then some publicly available education, higher education data from IPEDs to extract information about program cost, location, and indirect costs. Let’s say you have a main campus and then you have a continuing education campus.