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Lens on Employers - Educator and Industry Collaborations

Lens on Employers – Educator and Industry Collaborations

Over the past year, we’ve focussed our Lens on Learners: the types of learners, how they learn, and what they want from their education. With our Lens on Educators, we’ve explored what it will take for the education system to effectively bridge the gap between learners and employers.

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Lens on Educators - Career Mobility

Lens on Educators – Career Mobility, Web 3.0, Fortnite and Meta Universities

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.” – Charlie Munger We focus our Lens on Educators a bit wider than usual today, as we digress into the realm of possibility. We take a blue-sky approach to consider what the future world of learning might look like if we borrowed a verification system the banking industry has been using since the days of the stage coach – and end up in a Web 3.0 hyper-connected Meta University. Here’s how it started…

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Lens on Educators - How Educators Can Impact Employability Outcomes

Lens on Educators – How Educators Can Impact Employability Outcomes

Continuing our Stakeholders in the Modern Credential Marketplace series, we turn our Lens on Educators, starting with a look at how educators can impact the employability outcomes of learners and programs around them now. The reason is simple. Change must start somewhere, and as when setting any goal, we need to aim for that which is a stretch for us, but still achievable.

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Lens on Learners - Employability Outcomes of Recent College Graduates

Lens on Learners – Employability Outcomes of Recent College Graduates

So far in our Lens on Learners series, we have looked at lifelong learners, those who are unemployed and underemployed, and those still in grades K-12 (or their country equivalent of elementary and high school). However, we haven’t as yet addressed one group, one that we still need to talk about – those learners who are recent college graduates. These learners currently face the question “What now?” Let’s dive in and see…

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Lens on Learners - Capturing K-12 Non-Formal Learning Achievements

Lens on Learners – Capturing K-12 Non-Formal Learning Achievements

Continuing our Lens on Learners series, we come to one of the most challenging and perhaps most important topics of all, yet one of the most difficult to navigate. We talk about the skills gap, the need for soft skills and ways to quantify, measure, and document them when it comes to universities, trade schools, and even adult learning, but what about starting even earlier?

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Lens on Lifelong Learners - Back to School for Career Progression

Lens on Lifelong Learners – Back to School for Career Progression

LIfelong learners or adult learners fall into a few different categories, but the broadest ones are those who have been displaced from their current careers for whatever reason (as covered in our previous article) who have an urgent need to reskill or upskill to reenter the workforce and preserve their means to make a living. The second, and the topic of this article, is the group of lifelong learners that want to upskill or reskill to advance in their current career, switch careers, or prepare for potential displacement that may be on the horizon.

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