ICEF Monitor – The growing importance of alternative credentials
4 Jun 2015
The emergence of non-traditional qualifications – also know as alternative credentials – has changed the higher education landscape in recent years, impacting curriculum delivery and posing a challenge to traditional institutional business models. Yet what are these alternative credentials, and how are they being used? What are the downstream implications for students and institutions?
According to Dr Michelle Weise, a leading expert on disruptive innovation in higher education,alternatives to the traditional full-time, on-campus, four-year degree programme are growing. “Fewer and fewer students can afford that option,” she says.
“What’s more, 42% of college and university students in 2020 will be over the age of 25. More and more young people want their education to be flexible, inexpensive and oriented toward job opportunities.”
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