ETS, a global education and talent solutions organization, announced today that Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) has become a wholly owned subsidiary of ETS, in a deal that closed on May 1. MTC’s work to create scalable, flexible learning records— Mastery Transcripts and MTC Learning Records – will dovetail as part of ETS’s joint Skills for the Future initiative with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement…
Skills for the Future
A joint initiative of ETS and the Carnegie Foundation to transform teaching, learning and assessment
ETS and Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC) Join Forces to Scale Skills Transcripts
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Since 1906, the Carnegie Unit or “credit hour” has served as the bedrock currency of the educational economy. It defines what “counts” as learning, shapes the nature of what is and is not assessed, and determines the basic organization of secondary and postsecondary education. Where seat time has served as the primary function of learning outcomes, it is increasingly clear that the knowledge, skills…
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