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Higher Learning 2025

HLC Annual Conference

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1EdTech Community Session

Collaborations for Quality: From Educational & Training Providers, to Microcredentials, to Outcomes

There are increasing microcredential offerings, along with an expanding set of microcredential providers, emerging in the postsecondary learning and skills marketplace. These myriad offerings and providers aim to address the chasms between higher education and employers, and to help advance lifelong learning to a larger set of learners than are currently being served. However, there is also an urgency to design for and assure quality and desired learner outcomes (academic, employment, social, and economic), and the necessity to dramatically improve transparency in the ever-expanding microcredential marketplace. This panel will share information about HLC Credential Lab’s new Education and Training Provider Endorsement and will host representatives from two other leading and collaborating organizations that are working in the quality assurance space for non-degree microcredentials. Presenters will share their individual organizational approaches to address the quality assurance and transparency need, as well as the ways they are exploring layering their approaches to form a stronger microcredential quality assurance system.

Speakers:

  • Melanie Booth, Ed.D., Executive Director, HLC Credential Lab, Higher Learning Commission
  • Jon Furr, SVP & Chief Data Ecosystem Officer, Strada Education Foundation
  • Kelly Hoyland, Director, Higher Education Programs, 1EdTech

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Location: Chicago, Illinois
April 5th 12:00 AM EDT - April 8th 11:59 PM EDT
Saturday, April 5th - Tuesday, April 8th 2025All day
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