Company Digital Badges Policies Training 
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
OCTOBER 31, 2019
By some estimates, within a decade, only 30 to 40 percent of “college students” will physically attend a college to earn a degree, while many of the rest will shop for chunks of education and training that allow them to take the next step in their careers while also stacking toward an eventual degree. OpenTaxonomy.org is one example.
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. Training for education software, digital applications, digital program, other digital product: 34 percent. Training for student assessments: 27 percent.
MindShift
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
School districts spend a lot of money on trainings for educators, but the returns on that investment are not always clear. As soon as the district instituted the policy, educators were developing ideas for micro-credentials. But these elements are rarely applied to professional development.
Hack Education
JUNE 9, 2017
’s Mumps Outbreak Tells Us About Our Vaccine Policies.” More on for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” The Business of Job Training.
Edsurge
JUNE 12, 2018
I’ve tried to train myself in the lingo and include terms like “design sprint,” “customer,” “ROI” and so on in my vocabulary. While I was an embedded academic with the company, I played amateur anthropologist to learn all I could about corporate practices. In a great company, everybody assumes responsibility for everything.
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