Digital badges play a growing role in workforce development by enabling employers and higher education institutions to collaborate on defining badge criteria for skill verification and competency-based hiring.

Current Programming Partnerships Across Academic

The platform allows students to complete assessments of their skills—including hard-to-measure soft skills, like communication, resilience and ability to collaborate—and present them in a “skills-based transcript” they can present to employers,

students are matched with employers after a screening interview based on their major and goals, and they have final say in where they intern. The process is meant to be personalized

institutions need clarity to create coherent credentialing ecosystems that are aligned with their mission and the market.

companies with external partnerships that provide employee training or professional development increased from 54% in 2022 to 68% in 2023, and among those without existing relationships, 61% of companies would be interested in developing these partnerships.

Detailed Tables of ContentsCourses that garner high enrollment often present detailed tablesof contents. These structures provide a transparent overview of thecourse content, allowing learners (or corporate purchasers) to assessthe relevance and alignment with their learning objectives. The termsfound in the tables of contents can also play a significant role inimproving search engine optimization (SEO

First, microcredentialsshould be part of thestrategic programportfolio for all institutionsof higher education.Additionally, institutionsshould resource theirmicrocredential activitiesappropriately forsustainability and growth

(20%) did not include microcredentials as astrategic priority