Skills-based learning has developed beyond a conversation and has become the focus of many learning institutions from higher education to community colleges, career-specific educators, internal company training, and more. Why?
When we talk about education, we often describe it as a tool for economic mobility. We tell high school kids to go to college, get a degree, and that is the path to a good career. For adult learners, we advocate that they go back to school, finish that degree, get a master’s or a doctorate – easy ways to “get ahead” and enhance their ability to move forward in their careers.
In a recent article titled “College Ed Must Adapt or Die”, Jason Wingard, the President of Temple University in Pennsylvania stated simply, “Consider this my
We’re diverting from our Stakeholders in the Modern Credential Marketplace series in this blog post to talk for a moment about Dark Data. What is
There is an entire ecosystem that revolves around skills, and that ecosystem is changing. It started with education, and the rise of Massive Open Online
Over the past year, we’ve focussed our Lens on Learners: the types of learners, how they learn, and what they want from their education. With
We all know there’s a skills gap. It’s real, it’s a problem, and it’s time that we move beyond talking about what it is, how
We must define employability, and understand that being employable does not equal being employed. The two terms are often used interchangeably and are confused with
While it would be great to have a federal or even global framework, because of the needs of different organizations, any framework must be adapted
Definition of the terms ‘skills’ and ‘competencies’ in conjunction with ‘capability’ are vital to developing any framework against which a person can be assessed and
Despite everything in 2020, it’s worth recognising how incredibly lucky and privileged we are.
Edalex recently had the opportunity to support research that Emeritus Professor Beverley Oliver conducted on the topic of employability, culminating in the release of the
For many credential badges, it’s not clear what underlying skills or knowledge the micro-credential represents. What makes digital credentials meaningful in the current global economy?
Technology continues to transform the workplace and the way we learn. We now know that there is an increased demand for individual professional learning coupled
Like many organisations in education, the team at Edalex is always curious to see each year’s Top 10 IT Issues list from EDUCAUSE. It is