{"id":17940,"date":"2014-12-01T09:17:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:21:42","slug":"certificate-scene-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/certificate-scene-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Certificate Scene Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"peluso\"<\/a>Badges, certificates and certifications are the fastest growing area of continuing professional education. A packed room on the subject at the big LERN conference in Orlando demonstrated that this is a hot area.
\nBut the widely disparate questions equally demonstrated that the world of certificates can also be characterized as a chaotic scene. And it raises the question of whether your program should be regulated or whether the existing marketplace actually serves society better than top-down agencies with burdensome regulations, fees and restrictions.
\nIn his session, New York attorney Steven T. Peluso, Esq., reviewed the latest efforts by a number of national organizations to create a level of control and command over the area.
\nContinuing professional education is central to workforce competency. \u00a0Some of the problems Peluso outlined in furthering a quality workforce:
\n– No common language to describe workforce skills;
\n– No means of identifying workforce candidates with the best fit for a particular job;
\n– No benchmarks for skills and updating of skills;
\n– No way for workers to document their skill sets.
\nWith badges, certificates and certifications, there\u2019s no universal standards for quality, no universal standards for acceptance, and no approval system.
\nThere\u2019s not even common definitions of what a badge or a certificate is.
\nThe questions from the audience illustrated the scattered nature of the scene right now.
\n– \u201cAre badges just another CEU?\u201d
\n– \u201cWhere can I find teachers who are certified to teach something?\u201d
\n– \u201cIs our school allowed to teach a given subject?\u201d
\n– \u201cWhat about funding?\u201d
\n– \u201cAre there any avocational badge giver standards?\u201d
\nLERN developed an initial Certificate and Certification Standards several years ago.\u00a0 LERN will now review those standards with an eye to modifying them to make them more feasible for LERN member programs to follow.
\nThe big issue is whether a few top-down organizations will exert control, including costs, regulations and restrictions, on continuing education programs.\u00a0 Or whether programs will join together to create standards that make sense from the bottom-up with a minimum of cost and greater benefit to the workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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