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Microcredentials confuse employers, colleges and learners

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Nonetheless, demand in the large, growing microcredential market is strong, but learners also struggle to make sense of offerings. By one count, the United States is home to more than one million unique educational credentials, which represents a more than threefold increase since 2018.

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How MOOCs helped a centuries-old institution change its ways

Teaching Matters Online Learning

From The Campus, Times Higher Education In this post, Nikki Stuart and Lauren Johnston-Smith describe how MOOCs required us to rethink how to create open and free courses that would engage large numbers of learners. They explain how over the years, they’ve adapted their services in response to the lessons learned from their experiments.

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What’s the Deal with Comprehensive Learner Records?

Parchment

Comprehensive Learner Records are billed as a new way for learners to communicate the totality of their educational experience. And we did a good job of marketing it. Part of that was the marketing techniques we were using. We started encouraging seniors to use it and how to use it and upload it on social media.