New educational technologies and models for workforce education are evolving may be able to help rebuild critical gaps in Amerca's workforce education system. Learn about them in this webinar with MIT Lecturer Bill Bonvillian.
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Date: 4 February 2020
What can universities do to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship among their students? In this webinar, Claude Grunitzky, MIT alum, entrepreneur, and founder of TRACE and TRUE Africa, discusses several case studies from MIT that provide lessons that can be applied to other universities and contexts outside of the United States.
Date: 29 January 2020
Twenty-four durable skills that workers need to thrive in today's rapidly evolving organizations.
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.
Date: 24 January 2020
This module will guide students through a brief history and construction of a didgeridoo, the world’s oldest wind instrument, and a paixiao, a chinese pan flute. Students will work with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe and PVC-cutting tools to design and create a playable musical instrument. Using climate data trends from NASA Climate research source, students will compose a custom song related to climate data such as atmospheric CO2 concentration or global temperature anomalies. As an example of this, student may wish to use the Y axis of their example data as an analog of pitch, increasing the frequency of the didgeridoo or paixiao output over time. They may wish instead to vary the tempo of their composition, increasing the speed of their play over time. In this way, the sonification of climate data will be accomplished with a student musical chorus. The module will conclude with a group jam session with participants invited to provide percussion for the wind section.
Date: 24 January 2020
In this session, participants will be introduced to the GoGo Board and logo programming language. They will learn to setup the board, use sensors and actuators, and write simple procedures using loops and logic commands. They will also learn to set up experiments collecting and retrieving data of sensors. The GoGo board is a low-cost open-source hardware device for educational robotics, scientific experiments, and environmental sensing. People can use the board to construct robots, measure and log environmental data, conduct scientific investigations, create game controllers, build interactive art installations, and much more.
Date: 24 January 2020
What are maps? Why do they matter? What sorts of information can they convey? What types of maps can we generate from satellite data? This module explores how to understand the earth using open-source satellite data. Students will understand how maps can be analyzed to monitor crop health, measure deforestation and reforestation, or estimate amounts of carbon stockpiled in vegetation. Through projects, students will work with open-source satellite data (LandSat; Sentinel) to tell a geography-based story in images and devise a method of quantitative analysis to provide additional context.
Date: 24 January 2020
The Rockets module is a hands-on activity where students build and test a rockets made out of soda bottles. By exploring the process of iterative design, students will get multiple chances to design and redesign their rocket to accomplish various exciting challenges. Challenges are designed to explore concepts such as Newton’s 3rd law, air resistance, and the trade-off between velocity and acceleration. By the end of the activity, the students involved will understand the importance of the iterative process of design, the importance of ‘fail fast’, and the cool and fun outcomes you get when you keep improving on a design. This activity will be done with the younger students (10-12).
Date: 24 January 2020
How can nature influence the way we design aircraft? In this module, students will explore the creation of aircraft inspired by animals. Participants will learn about various types of biomimicry techniques employed by engineers and then devise models of their own using paper and other crafting materials to see how they fly. Additionally, students will build an apparatus to test their designs and gain further understanding about aerodynamics and the ways that we can continue to improve the efficiency of air travel.
Date: 24 January 2020
The goal of the Scratch session is to build participants' interest and confidence in creating and coding their own projects using the Scratch coding environment. We are designing a series of experiences to gain comfort with exploring, problem-solving, and expressing their ideas creatively with coding.
Date: 24 January 2020
Students explored Hong Kong’s Aquatic Microbiome in a hands-on, experimental, and creative manner using foundational biology techniques.
Date: 24 January 2020
Students were exposed to different scientific data, from microscopy (using local water samples for observations) to satellite (using downloadable maps of the South China Sea), and learned how these data help us understand local issues that affect the ocean.
Date: 24 January 2020
Students worked with water to understand how it can both affect engineering projects as a component of nature and be used as a component of a design project, learning about Natural Water Flow and making simple fountains with internally reflected light.
Date: 24 January 2020
Students programmed and calibrated an EEG-driven system (headsets) for causing giant plastic balls (with Lego WeDo motors inside) to move and ripple pools of water in response to changes in human emotional states.
Date: 24 January 2020
Energeo is a game about the environment, energy, policy, and tough choices. It is played by 4 teams of 6-7 players each. Each team represents a fictional country. Players take on the role of governmental representatives trying to meet their country’s energy needs. They must trade with representatives from other countries in order to form strong enough partnerships to create enough energy.
Date: 24 January 2020
Using a modular system for biochemical reactions called Ampli, students used discrete plug-andplay elements to experience the design and biochemical programming of reactions that encourage tuning, tweaking, and real-time analysis via on board sensors.
Date: 9 January 2020
Dr. George Westerman, principal research scientist, Workforce Learning at J-WEL, and Abbie Lundberg, president of Lundberg Media, discuss their research and article published in the Harvard Business Review. The research explores how forward-thinking Chief Learning Officers (CLOs) conceive of their roles and organizations, and how other senior learning professionals can become transformers themselves.
Date: 11 December 2019
Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, job descriptions, and degrees are just proxies of what someone knows and can do. What really matters are the competencies underneath. In this webinar, you will learn about the United States' first-ever competency framework and be introduced to the digital application and exchange where you can create and store competency profiles.
Date: 21 November 2019
This module focused on the basic fundamental concepts of electrical engineering, as well power and energy transfer. These concepts were reinforced by having students build a small circuit that drives a motor to spin a propeller, controlled via an infrared light remote.
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