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