Dear partners and innovators, 

The Lab team has been traveling across the country to learn and celebrate in person with our partners during this busy conference season.

Members of our Colorado cohort from the Community College Growth Engine Fund (pictured) met in Denver to work on micro-pathways and experienced a Lab Gallery Walk for the first time. The group was also introduced to the powerful Learner Engagement Framework and talked about storytelling to lead change. We celebrated with cake ... and copies of Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc's latest book, "Broken."

Many thanks to our Colorado partners for making the time to connect ... and to Lab Education Designer Rachel Kahn for organizing!

Friday, Oct. 28: Chief Program Officer Don Fraser, Jr. joins the panel, Between Past and Future: The Impact of Microcredentialing in Higher Education, during the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver. We're following #EDU22.

Friday, Oct. 28: Senior Education Designer Miriam Swords Kalk joins the panel, We Can Do It: Amplifying Single Moms' Voices to Design Learner-Supported Pathways, during the ACCT Leadership Congress in New York City. We're following #ACCT2022

Naomi Boyer (from left), Tara Laughlin, and Lisa Larson presented sessions at CBExchange — the premier conference on competency-based learning — in Amelia Island, Florida. See the full slide deck: XCredit: Skills Visibility + Validation.

Competencies developed during the CBExchange glow-in-the-dark beach party with partners Muzzy Lane + Edalex included: 1) Dancing with glow sticks 2) Eating glowing cotton candy (which our Edalex partners from Australia call "fairy floss" and 3) Playing glow-in-the-dark frisbee. 

This was our favorite tweet from #CBExchange!

Thank you, Brooks! Learn more about the Wellspring project on the 1EdTech website.

Can higher education really be redesigned to connect learners and the workforce?
Oct. 14, 2022

In this excellent Q&A with Higher Ed Dive, Lab President + CEO Bill Hughes talks about new majority learners, the Data Collaborative, and how the Lab improves the capacity to change. 

"One of the things people say to us, regardless of the type of project they’re doing, is 'Thank God you’re here. You’re actually making space for us to make the change. You’re giving us permission to do it.'"  Read more ...