{"id":77822,"date":"2021-12-16T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77822"},"modified":"2021-12-16T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:13:52","slug":"a-handful-of-colleges-are-finally-providing-training-in-a-way-consumers-want-it-fast-marcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/16\/a-handful-of-colleges-are-finally-providing-training-in-a-way-consumers-want-it-fast-marcus\/","title":{"rendered":"A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast [Marcus]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/a-handful-of-colleges-are-finally-providing-training-in-a-way-consumers-want-it-fast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus<br \/>\n<em>\u2018Rapid reskilling\u2019 seeks to speed up the frustratingly slow pace of switching careers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Such so-called rapid reskilling remains surprisingly rare in public and nonprofit higher education, which generally has been slow to respond to the need for accelerated training among the nation\u2019s many career-switchers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhile conventional education institutions have long offered what they call short-term training, what they often mean by that is \u201cshorter than it takes to get a degree.\u201d Such programs still typically follow academic semesters that start only in the fall or spring and meet for a few hours a week, stretching on for months or years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cWe have really picked up the pace,\u201d said Urban. \u201cThat\u2019s something that is very, very attractive to career-switchers. People want it faster and they want it cheaper and they want it more conveniently. And that\u2019s not a mode of operation in which traditional colleges and universities have thrived.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus \u2018Rapid reskilling\u2019 seeks to speed up the frustratingly slow pace of switching careers Excerpts: Such so-called rapid reskilling remains surprisingly rare in public and nonprofit higher education, which generally has been slow to respond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,61,174,86,209,115,302,855,480,310,66,212,321,214,852,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-skills","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vocational-trades","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77823,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77822\/revisions\/77823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}