01/12/2024

Addressing the Skills Gap with Micro-credentialing: Part 1

The challenges micro-credentials solve

Recognizing Your Brilliance!

As the skills gap in our workplaces increases, more organizations are having to rapidly contend with the problem in their own backyards. Essential technical and software skills are falling behind, and almost half (44%) of CEOs from 500 major corporations across the U.S. report that durable skills like communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity aren’t at the levels they need to succeed.^[1]

To prepare future workforces, we need a way to track current skill sets, identify gaps in skills development, incentivize people to pursue additional skills development, and create a common mode of sharing these to demonstrate those skills to others so that they can’t be falsified.

Let’s look at an example of how this can work.

Please select this link to read the complete article from OSAP industry partner member D2L.