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American Workforce Education: Making it Work

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Bill Bonvillian

Lecturer, Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments, and Senior Director, Special Projects
MIT

Susan Young

Assistant Director for Workforce Learning, J-WEL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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America’s workforce learning system is broken. While the demand in the economy for additional skills is growing, we do not have an education system that meets this demand. Meanwhile, individuals who lack a college education often face difficulties finding quality jobs. But there is hope for the future: new educational technologies and models for workforce education, which will be discussed during this webinar, are evolving and have the potential to help rebuild this system.

Topics: Future of Work

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Digital Credentials: From Concept to Action

Content Author:

Jeff Dieffenbach

Date: 26 March 2020

During the April 2019 J-WEL Week, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative’s (MITili's) Jeff Dieffenbach facilitated a conversation among Workforce Learning Collaborative members to explore the enabling role of digital credentials on the future of employee success in the workplace.

Human Skills Workshop: Welcome

Content Author:

George Westerman

Date: 5 March 2020

J-WEL Principal Research Scientist Dr. George Westerman welcomes participants to the Human Skills Conference.

Human Skills Workshop: Panel 1 - Human Skills: What Are They? Why Are They Important?

Content Author:

Susan Young

Date: 5 March 2020

Representatives from academia, industry, and edtech set the stage for the day's discussions by sharing their perspectives on human skills and their role in the context of work.

Human Skills Workshop Report

Content Author:

Katherine Ouellette, Axelle Clochard-Bossuet, Susan Young, George Westerman

Date: 4 March 2020

This report provides an overview of the March 2020 Human Skills Workshop (HSX), including key takeaways and insights from the workshop's expert panels.

Human Skills Workshop: Panel 2 - Human Skills: How to Train?

Content Author:

George Westerman

Date: 4 March 2020

Educators from pK-12, higher education, workforce share best practices and ongoing challenges faced in helping students and workers to gain critical human skills.

Human Skills Workshop: Panel 3 - Human Skills: How to Assess?

Content Author:

Susan Young

Date: 4 March 2020

Experts from academia and edtech describe their approaches to assessing difficult-to-measure human skills and how we might measure skills that cannot be measured directly.

The Human Skills Matrix Infographic

Content Author:

Abbie Lundberg, Glenda Stump, George Westerman

Date: 29 January 2020

The digital economy will require firms and individuals to change more rapidly than ever before in history to keep up with changing demands of business and technology. This is a workforce and public policy priority, but also the responsibility of higher education and employers.

Human Skills Workshop Curriculum and Materials

Content Author:

Glenda Stump, George Westerman

Date: 28 January 2020

”Human Skills: Foundation for Success in the Future of Work” is a workshop designed to help participants understand essential non-technical skills for success in the complex work environments of today and tomorrow.

Chief Learning Officers as Organizational Transformers

Content Author:

Abbie Lundberg, George Westerman

Date: 9 January 2020

The traditional model of the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) is no longer meeting the needs of today’s organizations, according to our research, based on in-depth interviews with 21 senior learning officers at 19 large companies. A new and powerful model, the Transformer CLO, is starting to emerge.

Competencies: The New Currency for the Digital Economy

Content Author:

Katie Hall, George Westerman

Date: 11 December 2019

Learners don’t know what credentials are valuable. Employers don’t know what credentials mean someone can actually do and educators aren’t sure if or what credentials are leading to good jobs. And what happens for all the people who have no credentials of any kind?

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