When faculty make up short-term credentials – i.e., certificates – they’re not stackable: they’re Sleestak-able. What’s the point of obtaining a made up certificate employers don’t ...

By organizing programs around stackable credentials, institutions can offer milestones on the path to the workforce or degree completion.

Seymour says the trend of stackable credentials is still in its early stages, especially in online education, but believes it will continue to catch on and remain an option for online learners in ...

Rather than the muddled stacking we’re currently seeing, it would be more productive to simply staple new credentials to something solid, like degrees or jobs.

A new report from the Community College Research Center has suggested that while a college degree or a certificate has an impact on earnings, the impact of stackable credentials is still iffy.

In general, stackable credentials are shorter-term programs that can lead to higher-level credentials. At Husson University, certificate programs consist of four to five courses. After completing a ...

However, horizontal stacking—earning another credential at the same level—didn’t yield much of an earnings boost for these students. Low-income certificate earners also tended to be concentrated in ...

According to a Columbia University white paper, stackable credentials have existed in some form since at least 1994, when Congress passed the School-to-Work Opportunities Act.

— Pros: Stackable credentials allow entry-level and mid-career employees to gain new skills as they seek to advance their careers through promotions, increased responsibilities and higher salaries.

Nontraditional students are becoming the majority, and stackable credentials offer programming that better fits the needs and schedules of older students who work or have families. While there is ...