{"id":77649,"date":"2021-12-03T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77649"},"modified":"2021-12-03T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T22:00:32","slug":"will-microcredentials-be-the-rx-needed-to-fix-our-ailing-degree-systems-leaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/03\/will-microcredentials-be-the-rx-needed-to-fix-our-ailing-degree-systems-leaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Microcredentials be the Rx Needed to Fix Our Ailing Degree Systems? [Leaser]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evolllution.com\/programming\/credentials\/will-microcredentials-be-the-rx-needed-to-fix-our-ailing-degree-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Will Microcredentials be the Rx Needed to Fix Our Ailing Degree Systems?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from evolllution.com by David Leaser | Senior Program Executive of Innovation and Growth Initiatives, IBM<br \/>\n<em>Amidst the dramatic social and economic upheaval caused by the pandemic, microcredentials are presenting themselves as the viable solution to getting learners prepared quickly and effectively for desperately needed jobs.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Pace of Change Accelerates Beyond Our Wildest Imagination\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nBut the world of work is changing at a pace that traditional education systems cannot match. Cloud computing, big data and AI technologies are replaced or improved monthly\u2014and often faster than that.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe U.S. college system is organized around an all-or-none framework: You only get a credential after completing the entire learning path.\u00a0 But when a large number of students cannot commit to a long-term commitment (the situation we have faced for decades), shouldn\u2019t we break the learning down into\u00a0credentials\u00a0along the way?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>The MicroBachelors: A Major Win for Credential As You Go<\/strong><br \/>\nToday, most\u00a0microcredentials\u00a0provide the opposite of college degrees: high\u00a0skill-signal\u00a0strength but low\u00a0social-signal\u00a0strength.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMicroBachelors programs are a series of college classes that have been customized and grouped together to meet employers\u2019 real-world needs. The programs typically take two to four months to complete and provide credentials and college credits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Microcredentials be the Rx Needed to Fix Our Ailing Degree Systems? &#8212; from evolllution.com by David Leaser | Senior Program Executive of Innovation and Growth Initiatives, IBM Amidst the dramatic social and economic upheaval caused by the pandemic, microcredentials are presenting themselves as the viable solution to getting learners prepared quickly and effectively for [&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":[113,842,174,86,209,115,302,45,112,823,324,3,547,180,119,825,7,838,510,228,15,815,44,269,321,214,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-alternatives","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-computer-science","category-corporate-business-world","category-credentialing","category-curriculum","category-higher-education","category-ibm","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-law-schools","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-lifelong-learning","category-microlearning","category-pace-of-change","category-professional-development","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77650,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77649\/revisions\/77650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}