Solutions for today’s learners, organizations, systems, and communities to advance learning and propel change.

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Areas of Expertise

  • We engage in learning-focused solutions designed for an improved future state, where continual work-integrated learning and skilling is the norm, where all learning counts and is recognized, and where all learners have access to - and success as a result of - learning opportunities.

    To achieve this future state, we often facilitate purposeful partnerships - ensuring the right organizations and individuals have the opportunity and capacity to work together to solve wicked challenges in the ecosystem.

    While technology is very often an essential element of a learning solution, we start by identifying the human and organizational needs first to ensure that change initiatives stick and ultimately make a difference.

  • Because we work on cutting edge initiatives that ultimately serve to dismantle the traditional boundaries between learning and work, we have expertise and engage in a variety of projects, including:

    • Assessment: program quality, learning and skills, and overall educational effectiveness

    • Badging, digital credentials, digital portfolios, and Learning and Employment Records (LERs)

    • Change leadership

    • Credentialing initiatives (microcredentials, non-credit to credit pathways, incremental credentials, etc.)

    • Credit for prior learning / prior learning assessment / equivalency methodologies

    • Competency-based learning (CBE)

    • Design thinking

    • Online and hybrid learning

    • Employer/educator collaborations

    • Faculty, staff, and leadership development

    • High impact practices, including mentoring, experiential learning, and community-engaged learning

    • Labor market alignment

    • Learner-focused employability and career development

    • Prison-based higher education (PHE)

    • Qualitative research and analysis

    • Quality assurance and accreditation

    • Skills-based learning design

    • Stakeholder engagement

    • Strategic planning and monitoring

    • Systems mapping and redesign

    • Work-based and work-integrated learning practices and simulations

  • We also provide hands-on support to help your organization identify and solve problems, design learning and change opportunities, organize partnerships, and attain goals. Examples include:

    • Creating and facilitating teams to design initiatives that address a future state or to solve novel problems

    • Connecting state of the art models, technologies, resources, subject matter experts, and collaborators

    • Designing and facilitating small and large group workshops and communities of practice virtually, in person, and in hybrid modalities

    • Performing action research

    • Preparing reports, guidelines, technical assistance, and job aides that promote dissemination and adoption

    • Training, mentoring, and supporting personnel

    • Writing grants and funding proposals