AUTHOR

Clayton Dean

VP of B2B Partnerships

Ziplines Education

Clayton Dean is the Vice President of Partnerships and Growth at Ziplines Education, managing over 35 university partners and driving new university and B2B revenue growth. With over 15 years as an EdTech operator, he previously co-founded Circa Interactive, an enrollment marketing firm serving 75+ colleges and universities.

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Industry trends

From individual learner to team training: how AI course completers are driving corporate enrollments

AI certificate completers are becoming organizational buyers, turning individual learning into team training and corporate accounts. Here's the loop.

AI workflows

Learning pathways

Professional growth

Upskilling

Clayton Dean – Can you operate a micro-credential?

Industry trends

The real question isn't whether you can build a micro-credential. It's whether you can operate one.

The hard part of micro-credentials isn't building one—it's operating it. A dean's 12-question diagnostic to test whether your R1 is actually built to run one.

Workforce innovation

University partnerships

Learning pathways