Education Design Lab

Calling all #SkillsValidation innovators! C-BEN’s Partnership for Skills Validation, with partners Education Design Lab and Unicon, Inc., will be highlighting solution providers who are pushing the boundaries of performance-based skills validation at scale. If you’re working to create fair, transparent, and scalable skills validation methods, we want to hear from you. This includes: ✅ Tech vendors building high-quality skills validation tools ✅ Educational institutions & workforce orgs designing scalable assessments ✅ Employers & hiring managers using performance-based validation methods ✅ Cross-sector partnerships developing innovative validation models Selected solutions will be featured in the C-BEN Solution Showcase in May 2025, gaining visibility among 600+ education and workforce leaders, C-BEN members, and EdTech professionals. Don’t miss out—submissions are due by April 11, 2025! 🔗 Read the full RFI: https://lnkd.in/gTCbjaxQ 🔗 Apply now: https://lnkd.in/e_YzuPfx

📢 1 in 5 college students are a parent – yet support is still lacking. Student parents juggle classes, work, and parenting, often without the resources they need. It’s time to make higher education truly inclusive. How can we create better support systems? 💡👇 Join our community to support student parents: studentparentsuccess.org #SPOrg #StudentParentSuccess #SupportStudentParents #HigherEducation #BreakingBarriers #EducationMatters #InclusiveEducation #NonTraditionalStudents #EquityInEducation #FutureOfEducation

🚨 WEBINAR TOMORROW MAR. 19TH🚨 The T3 Innovation Network, Education Design Lab + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will be hosting a webinar about the Experience You Project! 💻 This 90-minute session will feature: 1. Projects supporting working adults + job seekers 2. Presenters including Gobekli.io, AstrumU®, SkillsAware + TeamLift 3. How these platforms help people translate work + life experience into validated skills 🔗 to register: https://lnkd.in/erBk_bfK 🚀 Experience You Project: https://lnkd.in/gMf_9fKg

⚙️ “The Texas Flywheel Initiative is helping more Texans connect to meaningful careers” - Leah Ben-Ami, EdD, Senior Ecosystem Designer, Education Design Lab 🚀 The initiative launched during the fall of 2024 with sponsorship and collaboration from Cholla Inc. & Charles Koch Foundation with strategic human-centered design support from Education Design Lab 📰 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gwx8FFA7

It’s been a great week as the Edalex team returned to the Digital Credentials Summit 2025! We’re humbled by the inspiring discussions at this year’s conference and grateful for the thoughtful engagement from attendees in our sessions. From exploring the skills visibility ecosystem to discovering how we can equip learners with integrated metadata (RSDs), digital credentials, and AI to unlock their potential—we covered it all. A special thank you to our co-panelists Tara Laughlin, Ed.D (Education Design Lab), Mary Gwozdz (Unicon, Inc.), Ian Davidson (SmartResume) and Mark Keough (SkillsAware) for sharing their insights, and to 1EdTech Consortium for hosting such an incredible event. We look forward to turning these connections into meaningful collaborations! Dan McFadyen Margo Griffith #edtech #futureofeducation #digitalcredentials #employability #skillsvisibility #openrecognition #lifelonglearning #AI #richskilldescriptors

⏪ It's time for a Work Forces Flashback! ⏪ In her recent Work Forces interview with Kaitlin LeMoine and Julian Alssid, Naomi Boyer spoke about her work at Education Design Lab leading initiatives across often-siloed organizations to develop a common language and framework for discussing and sharing skills. Please check out the clip below and listen to the full podcast interview on our website to learn more about Naomi's insights. https://lnkd.in/gV2Uty2e #workforcedevelopment #education #skills #systemschange

✨ What a fantastic week at the League for Innovation in the Community College's Innovations 2025 conference in San Antonio, TX! Thoroughly enjoyed presenting alongside Michael M. and Elizabeth Ham to share updates on the behavioral health pathway work happening within the Colorado Community College System. Also loved all the Education Design Lab presence with sessions led by the Lab's founder, Kathleen deLaski who recently released her new book "Who Needs College Anymore?: Imagining a Future Where Degrees Won’t Matter", as well as Joseph (Joe) Davis and Jimmy LeDuc, Ed.D. who presented alongside Luke Dowden from Alamo Colleges District. 🙌Grateful for the amazing new connections and opportunities talk with partners doing incredible work in the postsecondary to workforce space! #25INNTX

This #WomensHistoryMonth we wanted to spotlight our Student Parent Project ✨ Rebecka Ramos, Senior Education Designer at Education Design Lab, just gave a draw dropping presentation at SXSW EDU 🤯 “You’re a student, you’re a professional, you’re a mom… keep them separated” 👀 #SXSW #AUSTINTX

Calling all community college presidents and senior workforce leaders! If you’re heading to the #AACC Annual Convention, join us for the pre-convention session, "Powering Economic Mobility: Community Colleges as Regional Ecosystem Leaders" on Sunday, 4/13 from 12:30pm-4:30pm CT. Panelists Joseph Fuller (Harvard Business School), Dr. Brenda Hellyer (San Jacinto Community College), Peter Beard (U.S. Chamber), and Kerry McKittrick (Project on Workforce) will discuss building partnerships between colleges and employers. This panel will be followed by workshops on meeting changing student needs (facilitated by Kathleen deLaski, Education Design Lab), and positioning colleges as regional economic leaders (facilitated by Lisa Larson, Education Design Lab). Session Goals: •Discuss research and best practices for driving economic mobility and regional growth •Share challenges, approaches, and lessons learned among peers •Inspire and identify actions to drive transformation at participants’ institutions •Build connections among leaders devoted to the economic mission of their college Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/egbA9Gy2

#1 seller on Amazon in the #educationcounseling category?? 🤯 Congrats Kathleen deLaski 🥳 I’m excited to share the link to the virtual webinar Education Design Lab produced during “Who Needs College Anymore?” #booklaunch week 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/gxBihk2W It was a pleasure to have worked on the production, social media content creation and logistics for this live virtual event with over 300+ registered attendees!! 💻 #virtualevents #webinar #college