Written by: Richard Price
Published by: Christensen Institute

MBA News Digest Comment: None.

Extracted Content: The pandemic has taken everyone’s carefully-laid plans and schedules, crumpled them up, and tossed them in the garbage. To paraphrase Dr. Anthony Fauci, we are all on the virus’ timeline now.

Now that time needs to be flexible for everyone, policymakers, employers, and institutions have an opportunity to lay the foundation for longer-term CBE efforts that increase access to learners from all walks of life, including the 26 million newly unemployed, and that make forward-thinking institutions more workforce-aligned and resilient to external shocks. Laying this foundation will require establishing and fostering a parallel postsecondary education system that revolves around industry-valued credentials and third-party credentialing bodies as the gatekeepers of mastery and workforce readiness.