"Earlier this month, higher education policy leaders from all 50 states gathered in Minneapolis for the 2025 State Higher Education Executive Officers Higher Education Policy Conference. During a plenary session on the future of learning and work and its implications for higher education, Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, reflected on the growing need for people to be able to easily build and showcase their skills."
"In response to this need, the avenues for learning have expanded, with high numbers of Americans now completing career-relevant training and skill-building through MOOCs, microcredentials and short-term certificates, as well as a growing number of students completing postsecondary coursework while in high school through dual enrollment. The time for pontificating about the implications for higher education is past; what's needed now is a pragmatic examination of our long-standing practices to ask, how do we evolve to keep up?"
Higher education leaders convened to consider how learning and work trends affect postsecondary pathways and skills recognition. Rapid growth in MOOCs, microcredentials, short-term certificates and dual enrollment has expanded how Americans earn career-relevant learning. Existing learning-evaluation (credit-evaluation) systems function as gatekeepers that can either integrate or exclude learners. A 2024 Public Agenda survey found nearly four in ten adults attempted to transfer credit from traditional and nontraditional sources, and 65 percent experienced negative outcomes such as re-taking courses, limited enrollment options, and exhausting financial aid when prior learning was not counted. Reforming credit-evaluation practices is presented as an urgent pragmatic priority.
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