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Audio: The Importance of Stackable Certificates
Amy Hyams
Commissioner
International Association of Continuing Education and Training
The following interview is with Amy Hyams, the Commissioner of the International Association of Continuing Education and Training. Hyams recently presented on the disruptive power of non-credit stackable skills at the Association of Continuing Higher Education’s 2012 Annual Conference and Meeting. In the interview, Hyams expands on how higher education institutions can take advantage of this new type of career and workforce development, how adult students benefit from the existence of stackable professional certificates and what the challenges to adopting this disruptive certification are.
To listen to… Continue reading
Whose Students Are They, Anyway?
Bill McClure
Executive Director of Continuing and Professional Education
University of Massachusetts—Amherst
With the rapid growth in higher education continuing education programs, especially online, the number of students, in-turn, is growing too. It seems that this is causing an interesting identity issue for these students as well as for the university. Whose label, brand, moniker should be placed on these ‘other’ students?
The use of term “continuing education (CE) student” seems to be the most common term applied to these ‘other’ university students. They might come to the campus, they could be in online courses, they might… Continue reading
Higher education retention: Lessons learned from non-traditional students
Lesley Snyder
Director of Continuing Education
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
With the rise of for-profit institutions and increasing constraints on state funding, traditional non-profit higher education is at a crossroads. Many for-profit entities were quicker to arrive at the realization that flexible delivery models, accessibility, workforce-driven content, and customer-focused student services are the way of the future for our industry. In the continuing, professional, and distance education arena, these conclusions come as no surprise, so what can our industry, as a whole, learn from adult and non-traditional student expectations?
Cross-posted from The… Continue reading
