Open LMS, a leading global provider of open-source learning management systems (LMSs), today announced its partnership with Ease Learning to integrate with Skillways, their leading skills assessment platform. The collaboration will create new opportunities for Open LMS users to design and access highly effective, customizable, and engaging learning experiences to help learners reach their fullest potential.
Read MoreMany people have knowledge, but can they apply it? Job readiness is the accumulation of a variety of skills, in combination with a degree of mastery that allows someone to DO their role effectively. Surely they must know things, but they must also be able to apply that knowledge to effectively contribute to their organization. To move from “knowing” to “doing” is commonly the challenge facing employers in their talent pipelines
How can prior learning assessment (PLA) expedite career pathways? And what does this have to do with competency based education (CBE)? Is there perhaps a hybrid option to CBE that post secondary education will more warmly embrace? One that blends authenticated skillsTM into academic frameworks without abandoning all of higher education’s benefits?
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