Salt Lake City-based Western Governors University (WGU) has announced the acquisition of Craft Education Inc. to accelerate of its endeavor to develop, launch and scale work-based learning pathways.

Nashville, Tennessee-based Craft Education is a education technology company focused on apprentice-based programs with a platform for establishing, monitoring, reporting and facilitating on-the-job training aligned with degree programs and work-ready skills.

“With this acquisition, WGU fast-tracks its ability to innovate and scale work-based curriculum and new student experience designs,” the school said in a statement. “The combination accelerates the expansion of apprenticeship and other embedded job programs alongside WGU’s existing degree and certificate offerings across education, health care, technology and Please log in to see the rest of this story.