08/26/2025 – Government Technology – Center for Digital Education
“Following our successful one-day seminar on AI prompt development, we recognized a genuine and growing community need for structured training in AI skill sets,” Burns wrote in an email. “In addition, our technology partners, IBM and Northrop Grumman, confirmed a direct need for workers with applied AI skills.”
What Burns noticed is not unique to West Virginia. Nearly 57 million white-collar workers in America are interested in gaining AI skills, and only 15 percent of them are currently enrolled in structured learning programs to do so, according to a report last month from higher-ed research firm Validated Insights.
The same report found that demand for credential-bearing AI programs is growing quickly. From 2016 to 2023, completions of AI degrees and certificates grew by almost 10 times….Read more at Government Technology – Center for Digital Education.