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WGU Skills Architecture: Mapping curriculum to workforce needs

There are now more than 20,000 skills articulated in the WGU Skills Library, housed in more than 100 skills collections including such topics.

Creating Incremental Value for Modern Learners

Aligning credentials with workforce needs cannot happen individually. Providing learners with valuable and relevant skills requires institutions working collaboratively to create a shared language and framework that translates into the professional world.

As higher ed institution grapple to understand the programming needed to meet learner needs, it’s important to develop strong partnerships with industry leaders to provide skills that keep learners relevant in the workforce.

Skills as a Currency: The Future of Work

A workforce equipped with the skills to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow—one that requires continuous learning and comfort with technology—is critical.

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Open Skills Libraries Help Today's Education and Training Providers Respond to the Recent Surge in Skills-based Hiring Practices

Transparancy with students is crucial for them to have successful educational journeys, develop their personal brand and stand out as potential employees.

Charting a Future With Skills: The Need for a Skills-Based Education and Hiring Ecosystem

An introduction to the Diamond of Interoperability, a set of four principal statements—open skills, open achievements, open records, open pathways—to support the workforce development needed for the future of work.

Work Shift, Aug. 11, 2021 WGU president Scott Pulsipher talks about policies that can help expand access for working learners and whether CBE might finally have its moment.

The Policy Implications of a Skills-Based Future

The recent Open Skills Network (OSN) Skills Summit examined the policy work needed to support a skill-based hiring and learning landscape.

WGU and the NGA recently announced a partnership to focus on the future of education and work.

Lost in Translation: Bridging the Skills Translation Gap with Skills Mapping

Skills mapping can help employers and postsecondary institution bridge the skills translation gap that often separates learners from work in their field.

The missing piece in the skill-based future: technology. Educators and employers need a system to understand people’s earned skills and learning no matter where or when that knowledge was gained.

The Skills Currency and Higher Education’s Call to Action

Skills are the new currency of the labor market, and higher education needs to get better at explaining to employers and students how academic programs help fill the skills gap.

A Case for Skills: Transforming the Value Proposition of Higher Education

Higher education that doesn’t focus on skills is not only missing the mark, it perpetuates systemic inequities in access to opportunity.

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As higher ed institution grapple to understand the programming needed to meet learner needs, it’s important to develop strong partnerships with industry leaders to provide skills that keep learners relevant in the workforce.

Work Shift, Aug. 11, 2021 WGU president Scott Pulsipher talks about policies that can help expand access for working learners and whether CBE might finally have its moment.

WGU and the NGA recently announced a partnership to focus on the future of education and work.

The missing piece in the skill-based future: technology. Educators and employers need a system to understand people’s earned skills and learning no matter where or when that knowledge was gained.

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