June 2, 2022
The Micro-Credential Rush: How Adults Are Relearning Careers in 90-Minute Chunks
Careers used to change on a decade’s timeline. Now they shift inside the length of the certificate meant to prepare someone for them, which is why adult learning has quietly stopped looking like night school and started looking like a subscription habit. Adult learning quietly stopped looking like night school and started looking like a subscription habit. The friction driving this shift is specific and unglamorous: careers are changing faster than any traditional credentialing calendar can keep up with, and adults with mortgages and children do not have two years to spend finding out whether a new field suits them.
