As web-based learning platforms proliferate, and education increasingly happens in formal and informal settings and in both real and virtual classrooms, there is a growing need for a new form of credentialing that reflects these changes.
He acknowledges that the high school graduates he selects are 'extraordinary.' And his fellowship is another form of credentialing".
A recent survey of education and credentialing practices at public maternity hospitals in Victoria reported that only 33% had an existing intrapartum fetal surveillance education program in place and only 10% had some form of credentialing [ 5].
The college diploma, long believed to be the only way to get a job, will slowly be replaced by more accurate forms of credentialing — and the same for the resume.
Certificates are the fastest-growing form of postsecondary credential, the Georgetown study said, prized by employers for equipping workers with skills in high demand.
"There's an estimated 80 million people out there in the work force who could benefit from coming back and gaining some form of postsecondary credential," said James L. Applegate, vice president for program development at the Lumina Foundation.
"Right now, MOOCs are not organized in any sort of a program — it's course by course," she said, "whereas continuing education is probably some form of a credentialed or certificate program, a series of courses".
One new San Francisco startup, Degreed, is on a mission to "jailbreak the degree" and give learners a new form of academic credentialing.
This can be seen in the increased use of online metrics, measurements and 'analytics', as well as the 'unbundling' of components of university learning in the form of micro-credentials, blockchain based programs and certifications, or digital portfolios.
Indeed, 41 million adults currently hold some form of non-degree credential, and there is growing acknowledgment that tomorrow's students, dubbed "the new normal" by former U.S.
