WATCH THE RECORDING
- 6:30 – Community College Challenges and Opportunities by Dr. Rufus Glasper
- 19:00 – Skills Alignment, CBE and Skills Wallet by Darin Hobbs
- 33:57 – Making Skills Visible by Margo Griffith
ABOUT THE SESSION
It’s been reported* that by 2030, there will be a global human talent shortage of more than 85 million people. Left unchecked, in 2030 that talent shortage could result in about $8.5 trillion in unrealized annual revenues. The United States could be facing a deficit of more than 6 million workers, and in tech alone, the US could lose out on $162 billion worth of revenues annually unless it finds more high-tech workers.
Given 2030 is a mere five and half years’ away, the need for new skill development has never been greater, or more urgent. This presents a timely opportunity that could see Community Colleges step into the breach and supply the skills training needed to address this looming skills cliff.
Key to taking advantage of this unprecedented opportunity, will be a Community College’s ability to identify in-demand skills taught in their curriculum, and provide evidence-backed recognition of these skills that their learners can share with employers when looking for work. Workplace alignment, competency-based education and skills and achievement wallets will be at the forefront of the future of work.
Connecting the data dots will enable all of these digital recognition activities.
In this informative and practical webinar that will share a roadmap to skills visibility and recognition, and provide an overview of the technology solutions that can enable community colleges to act swiftly and at scale to address skills gaps. The panelists consist of:
- Rufus Glasper, President of the League for Innovation in the Community College
- Darin R. Hobbs, Vice President of Learning & Employment Records at Western Governors University (WGU)
- Dan McFadyen, Managing Director, Edalex
- Margo Griffith, Principal Skills Consultant, Edalex
* Korn Ferry, Future of Work: The Global Talent Crunch, 2024. https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/talent-crunch-future-of-work
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Rufus Glasper, Ph.D., CPA Rufus Glasper is President and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College, an international nonprofit organization with a mission to cultivate innovation in the community college environment in a continuing effort to advance the community college field and make a positive difference for students and communities. Dr. Glasper, Chancellor Emeritus of the Maricopa Community Colleges, served as Chancellor from 2003 through February 2016, and held district leadership positions for three decades. Nationally, Dr. Glasper serves as an advisory board member for the Center for Community College Student Engagement, The University of Texas at Austin; Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; The Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, North Carolina State University. Dr. Glasper serves on the board of directors for the Education Design Lab; and COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications. He also served as trustee for the Higher Learning Commission and the American Council on Education. Dr. Glasper is an active community member, serving on the boards of the Arizona Community Foundation and the Arizona State University Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. He is also an emeritus member of Greater Phoenix Leadership. Dr. Glasper earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Luther College, as well as a master’s and advanced degrees in school business administration from Northern Illinois University. He received his doctorate of philosophy degree in higher education finance from the University of Arizona. |
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Darin R. Hobbs Darin R. Hobbs, Vice President of Learning & Employment Records at Western Governors University (WGU), has over twenty years of management and customer service experience in various professional, academic, and volunteer capacities. Darin is known for innovative solutions that create efficiencies within the work environment and constantly thinks creatively about how to reimagine the student record. Darin has devoted his career at WGU to transforming higher education for the benefit of students. As the Vice President of Learning & Employment Records, Darin is the business owner of Records in the Achievement Architecture initiative that seeks to transform the student record into a learner-owned, digital record of achievement that is skills-denominated, machine actionable and built upon a foundation of open standards. |
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Dan McFadyen For the past 20+ years, Dan has focused on enabling innovation in education powered by educational technology and long-term partnerships with educational institutions. This passion fuelled varied roles from a start-up developing the CODiE award-winning EQUELLA software to global educational powerhouses Blackboard and Pearson. Since 2016 Dan has served as the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Edalex, tackling skills- and employability-related challenges by supporting the definition, development and recognition of skills through education. On a personal level, as a dual American-Australian citizen, he struggles daily with the conflict between raising his two children on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or vegemite. |
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Margo Griffith Margo’s in-depth knowledge and experience of skills, the skills ecosystem and digital credentials is the result of working in and with higher education providers and edtech leaders, nationally and internationally for over 30 years. She is passionate about the positive impact of technology within education and the enablement of lifelong learning, learner agency and mobility. Margo co-convenes a Cross Sector Community of practice around Micro credentials in Australia and consults with Government, industry and education sectors around a skills first approach to learning and workforce. Her recent publications include “Creating the University of the Future: A Global View on Future Skills and Future Higher Education” (Contributor) (Springer 2024) and “Technology Enablement of the Skills Ecosystem” Naomi Rose Boyer and Margo Leanne Griffith (International Journal of Information and Learning Technology ISSN: 2056-4880, 2023). |
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