I.C.E. Exchange Program Description: Expanding the reach of your credential isn’t just good for your business, it’s good for everyone. The past several years have seen significant shifts in higher-ed and the workforce. Fewer individuals are seeking four-year degrees and many students are leaving school with only partial completion. At the same time, the workforce is changing rapidly in response to emerging technologies and an aging workforce, resulting in significant upskilling and reskilling needs.
Credentials offer individuals unique opportunities to advance their careers and employers opportunities to enhance their workforce. And by embedding those credentials earlier in the educational journey, credentialing programs can provide even more value for learner-workers, educational institutions, and employers.
How can you better embed your credentials? What new offerings or services might help address worker-learner and employer needs? What relationships should you nurture to expand the reach and impact of your program?
Discuss these questions and learn about successful efforts to strategically embed credentials from those who have accomplished it. Explore the exciting opportunities credentialing programs can offer to work-learners and the value you can provide at different points of the learning journey. This will be an engaging and interactive session that will leave you empowered and energized about the value and potential reach of your credentialing program!
Learning Objectives:
Understand the current state of education and workforce as it relates to credentialing and why the time is ripe for strategically embedding credentials
Understand the opportunities and relationships available in higher ed for embedding credentials
Understand the possibilities for expanding credentials to high schools to generate interest in and value associated with your credentialing program
Identify strategic considerations for expanding the reach of credentials into earlier points of the learner-worker journey
