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December 11, 2018

As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow

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Matt Krupnick, Hechinger Report

“We do have a little bit of a Wild West situation right now with alternative credentials,” said Alana Dunagan, a senior research fellow at the nonprofit Clayton Christensen Institute, which researches education innovation. The U.S. higher education system “doesn’t do a good job of separating the wheat from the chaff.” Thousands of credentials classes aimed at improving specific skills have cropped up outside of traditional colleges. Some classes are boot camps, including those popular with computer coders. Others are even more narrowly focused, such as courses on factory automation and breastfeeding. Colleges and universities have responded by adding non-degree programs of their own.

https://hechingerreport.org/as-students-flock-to-credentials-other-than-degrees-quality-control-concerns-grow/

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