Education

More employers are awarding credentials. Is a parallel higher education system emerging?

From EdSurge: “Digital credentialing platform Credly reports that the number of organizations issuing industry and workforce credentials is up 83 percent since the pandemic. In publicly traded online education company 2U’s last fiscal year, ‘alternative credential’ revenue surged 83 percent to $288 million. And Coursera’s IPO filing in early March showed booming business in professional certificate offerings from both universities and companies.”
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