Edsurge
MARCH 25, 2021
A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio.
Edsurge
AUGUST 12, 2020
Community college has even risen to a key policy point in national and state politics, with politicians touting plans and creating models for “free college ,” which often mean tuition-free options for community college as a pathway to four-year degrees or other credentials. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?
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Edsurge
JANUARY 30, 2020
Non-Degree Microcredentials as Pathways to Lifelong Learning and Degrees From digital badges and nanodegrees, to MicroMasters and new types of certificates, there’s an explosion of professionally-oriented microcredential offerings , and employers are increasingly aware of and accepting of these educational options.
Edsurge
JUNE 12, 2018
While I was an embedded academic with the company, I played amateur anthropologist to learn all I could about corporate practices. What practices of really effective companies, in which creativity and innovation are important, seem to have the biggest impact? In a great company, everybody assumes responsibility for everything.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 31, 2019
In fact, the boom in microcredentials is being fed in large part by major companies—IBM, Google, and Amazon, to name a few—looking to grow their talent pipeline and increase the skill level of current employees. Labor market data company EMSI just made its skills database open source for us all to create better skills maps.
Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2020
Our lawyer pointed out a policy change described in a 2018 U.S. Who Owns Digital Badges? A Company's Patent on Credential System Raises Questions. They took advantage of each opportunity to speak to the examiner and listen to his reasoning and logic behind the rejection and submitted targeted responses in order to appeal.
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 27, 2016
’ and if so, who’s taking them, what are they taking, and why,” according to Nycole Stawinoga, the education policy and program manager for ETIN. Company/vendor: 29 percent. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent. The study at that time placed the value of the market at $800 million as of 2012-13.
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