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SynED founders Guy Smith and Scott Young expand the nonprofit into new divisions as digital badges and just-in-time online learning reshape workforce education.
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SynED founders Guy Smith and Scott Young expand the nonprofit into new divisions as digital badges and just-in-time online learning reshape workforce education.

Governor Jerry Brown's final State of the State proposes a California Online College to train 2.5 million working adults who lack a postsecondary credential.

With some 40,000 cybersecurity jobs unfilled statewide, California legislators convene educators, industry, and government to align the workforce pipeline.

Led by Assemblymember Das Williams, Santa Barbara City College becomes the first California community college to issue digital badges to close the skills gap.

AB 405 would let California community college students earn an applied-science bachelor's in IT and cybersecurity, supporting high-wage tech careers.

A Georgetown University report finds 2.9 million of the 6.6 million jobs added in the recovery were high-paying 'good jobs,' with graduates first in line.

Assemblymember Das Williams joins a SynED-hosted Santa Barbara roundtable on how technology and digital badges can better connect healthcare education to jobs.

Santa Barbara healthcare leaders and Assemblymember Das Williams met at Antioch University in 2014 to explore digital badges for healthcare workforce training.

Stakeholders gathered at Las Positas College in May 2014 to explore digital badges for recognizing skills from traditional and non-traditional learning.

As new providers challenge colleges' hold on information, entrepreneurs are disrupting higher education and targeting the fast-growing adult-student market.