International Journal of Information and Learning Technology: Volume 40 Issue 4

Technology enablement of the skills ecosystem

Naomi Rose Boyer, Margo Leanne Griffith

As the skills economy becomes the norm, learning focused on skills, learners who understand those skills and can iterate the learners to potential employers, and hiring personnel…

Ensuring student-centered value with skills-denominated credentials

Kacey Thorne, Sarah DeMark, Tyson Heath, Kristian Young

The global labor market has been upended and a new landscape has emerged. New models for ensuring the value and relevance of post-secondary education are needed. Learners need…

Signals and noise: communicating achievement through alternative credentials

Martin Bean, Sheryl Grant, Glenn Hardaker, Rupert Ward

Alternative credentials are rapidly evolving. The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges and opportunities arising from this evolution with particular reference to…

Entrustable professional activities: a model for job activity competency framework with microcredentials

Terence Ma, Olle Ten Cate

Job competency frameworks are based on the listing skills required for a job. The assumption is that if a candidate is presumed to have the skills, then the candidate should be…

A multidimensional approach for enhancing and measuring creative thinking and cognitive skills

Yigal Rosen, Garrett Jaeger, Michelle Newstadt, Sara Bakken, Ilia Rushkin, Maneeza Dawood, Chris Purifoy

Despite the fact that research on creativity and cognition have garnered the attention of researchers and practitioners for decades, there is a lack of valid, reliable, and…

Illustrating the application of a skills taxonomy, machine learning and online data to inform career and training decisions

Claire M. Mason, Haohui Chen, David Evans, Gavin Walker

This paper aims to demonstrate how skills taxonomies can be used in combination with machine learning to integrate diverse online datasets and reveal skills gaps. The purpose of…