{"id":85793,"date":"2023-03-01T19:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85793"},"modified":"2023-03-01T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:46:51","slug":"employers-value-microcredentials-but-dont-know-how-to-assess-their-quality-natalie-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/01\/employers-value-microcredentials-but-dont-know-how-to-assess-their-quality-natalie-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers value microcredentials but don\u2019t know how to assess their quality [Natalie Schwartz]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/employers-microcredentials-alternative-credentials-quality\/643340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Employers value microcredentials but don\u2019t know how to assess their quality<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although a majority of surveyed employers say they value alternative credentials, many also harbor concerns over assessing the quality of education and understanding the skills and competencies they represent.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s according to a recent survey of 510 employers from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association, also known as UPCEA, and Collegis Education, a technology services provider for colleges.<\/li>\n<li>Despite their concerns, 23% of respondents said the greatest benefit alternative credentials provide are giving workers real-world experience. Also, 16% of respondents said alternative credentials help employees develop specialized skills and 13% said they improve performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers value microcredentials but don\u2019t know how to assess their quality &#8212; from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz Dive Brief: Although a majority of surveyed employers say they value alternative credentials, many also harbor concerns over assessing the quality of education and understanding the skills and competencies they represent. That\u2019s according to a recent survey of [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,302,112,200,823,3,486,855,118,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-credentialing","category-higher-education","category-real-world-assignments","category-skills","category-training-corporate-universities","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85793","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=85793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85794,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85793\/revisions\/85794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}