Download Report: The Emerging Learning System
The Emerging Learning System
For more than two decades, higher education leaders and associations, employers and policymakers have been asking tough questions about how well our nation’s colleges and universities prepare graduates to contribute successfully to a changing global workforce and society. Business leaders often express frustration that college graduates are not achieving the broad, cross- cutting learning outcomes they need at high enough levels to fuel a technology-rich, innovation-driven economy. They also complain that – whatever levels of learning graduates might be achieving – transcripts, resumes, and other current forms of documentation do not provide information that enables anyone outside the academy to understand clearly what students actually learned in college. They often don’t know what a speci c degree or credential signi es in terms of learning – what students know and can do.
