WFM Biweekly - 4/10/22 - UMaine, UpSkill SA, Work-Based Learning, OPMs, Noncredit Innovation

We report on the University of Maine System’s IMS Global Digital Credentials Summit Session held on March 2, 2022 titled “Making Skills Transparent Through A Unified Micro-Credential Framework.”

UpSkill SA! offers Goodwill San Antonio employees tuition-paid enrollment in a series of noncredit online badges, called “Skillsboosters,” and a stackable, for-credit certificate in Logistics Management.

This relatively short Strada Education Network report calls for higher ed and employers to boost partnerships that offer paid internships.

A Quick Tour of the OPM Landscape from Three Relatively Short, Easy-to-Understand Reports.

With all the discussions about and increased development of noncredit credentials in higher ed, we believe readers might find some informational value in this review of “The Complex Case of Noncredit Innovation in Public Universities: An Organizational Leadership Perspective,” which is Chapter 4 from the “Handbook of Research on Credential Innovations for Inclusive Pathways to Professions” (published by IGI Global).

New research finds companies are starting to rely less on the college filter in hiring. But it remains an obstacle to opportunity for many.

The Job - Deloitte will pay for degrees from ASU and Northeastern for future workers who GetSet Learning will recruit from two-year colleges.

The nature of work has changed rapidly in recent years and continues to evolve, leaving many in our workforce behind. The Future of Skills is an initiative from the AARP to do just that by convening thought leaders to share key insights about the future of work and the labor force.

There is a huge skills gap in North America but how we assess skills and talent has barely changed. To beat the current crisis we need new assessment models.

Explores all the ways in which the pandemic accelerated the shift to a skills-based talent ecosystem, and why all organizations should be moving towards a skills-first mindset to chart a path towards a more equitable and efficient hiring system. than those not relying on skills.

The skills to stay competitive in the new world of work.

Movement of this legislation would expand and improve services to America’s jobseekers, workers, and employers.

Launched in 2020 with $2.6 million in funding from the Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), supported by the Government of Canada, the multi-year partnership between BHER and Riipen has focused on engaging and connecting leaders in Canada’s academic and industry sectors to build a sustainable work-integrated learning (WIL) ecosystem for Canada’s future workforce.

This American Institutes for Research (AIR) paper compares non-credit-bearing credentials to credit-bearing credentials as they relate to middle-skill jobs.