Post-Secondary
Post-secondary is a shifting space — four year degrees may not always be the fit and new alternatives are being created at an alarming rate. This topic encompasses everything from higher ed to adult learning and workforce pipelines and development.
The Future of Work Is the Future of Lifelong Learning
In order to engrain the habits of metacognition and continuous improvement into both ourselves and those we serve, we need actionable behaviors that we can personally model before we will be able to develop structures and cultures that will encourage those skills.
Minerva: The Intentional University
As a venture-based Silicon Valley startup, Minerva has developed slowly over the last seven years. As a new form of higher education, progress from concept to enrollment was lightning fast. Learn more about what sets them apart here.
Ready and Working: Pathway Programs Are Changing What It Means to Be Career Ready
Career Pathways initiatives are gaining momentum in districts and among community coalitions in part because they blur the line between older, traditional “career or college” education tracks. Learn more about what these initiatives look like here.
Competency-Based Micro-credentials are Transforming Professional Learning
It's time to make way for micro-credentials -- the future of professional learning. There is nothing micro about how competency-based credentials have the potential to change the professional learning game on a MACRO-level.
Digital Promise and Facebook Developing New Micro-Credentials Program
Digital skills are skyrocketing in demand. More than 8 in 10 middle-skill jobs (82%) require digital skills, and tech companies everywhere often have trouble finding suitable candidates. A new initiative of Digital Promise and Facebook is looking to change that.
New Partnership Empowers Educators to Excel
A new partnership between K12 Inc. and Southern New Hampshire University will create a new masters degree aimed at educators teaching in online or blended settings and promises to advance excellence in K-12 online teaching.
ASU Prep Digital: Empowering Students
Online learning provides students around the world with access and opportunities that they may not have had available otherwise--advanced courses, more electives and world languages, and a different approach to a challenging topic. ASU Prep Digital is a great example.
How Writing Teachers Can Help Revolutionize Higher Education
By: Denise Wydra. We’re drowning HigherEd students in content at the expense of the thinking skills they need for success outside the classroom. Here's one example of how we can change that.
3 Texting Tips to Nudge Incoming HigherEd Students to Success
By: Brian Kathman. From completing college applications to registering for classes to applying for financial aid, students have an entire maze to navigate before their first day of class. Here's one way to help.
Learn to Earn: The Entrepreneurship Education Landscape
Entrepreneurship education for adults is gaining momentum, and it has taken some interesting shapes. Here's what we found in a recent survey of leading entrepreneurship programs.