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Credit transfer, OER and teacher-credentialing emerge as top implementation challenges for dual enrollment
Summary
Webinar speaker Jennifer Zinth highlighted barriers to dual-enrollment effectiveness: inconsistent credit transfer, limited OER uptake, and recent Higher Learning Commission credentialing changes that shift decisions to local institutions—she recommended transparency, advising, and data-driven policy steps.
Jennifer Zinth told the Midwestern Higher Education Compact webinar that funding choices are only part of the policy equation: states must also ensure credits students earn transfer and apply to degrees, that course materials are affordable, and that instructors are appropriately qualified.
Zinth said poor transfer outcomes are a recurring complaint: students sometimes accrue credits that later count as electives or do not transfer at all. She described a pending Colorado bill (noted in the webinar as sitting on the…
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