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Discussion: What Are Human Skills and Why Are They Important? (J-WEL Connections)

Resource Visibility: J-WEL pK-12, J-WEL Higher Education, J-WEL Workforce Learning, J-WEL Connections 2020

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Susan Young

Assistant Director for Workforce Learning, J-WEL Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Susan Young, Assistant Director of J-WEL Workplace Learning, asks: What do we mean when we talk about human skills? What do human skills mean in various contexts?

Topics: Future of Work Professional Education

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Future of Work
Human Skills
J-WEL Connections 2020

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Understanding the Incumbent Worker’s Decision to Train: The Challenges Facing Less-Educated Workers

Content Author:

George Westerman, Axelle Clochard

Date: 14 December 2020

Labor economists estimate that more than two million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the next decade (Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, 2018).

The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

Content Author:

David Autor, David Mindell, Elisabeth Reynolds

Date: 17 November 2020

In 2018, MIT launched the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future.

Applying New Education Technologies to Meet Workforce Education Needs

Content Author:

Sanjay Sarma, Bill Bonvillian

Date: 2 November 2020

This paper focuses on the question: What are the lessons from learning science and new technologies that could make online education, including workforce training, more effective?

Welcome and Setting the Stage (From Trainer to Transformer)

Content Author:

Vijay Kumar Ed. D, George Westerman

Date: 15 September 2020

Dr. Vijay Kumar, J-WEL Executive Director, and Dr.

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, 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.

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