Continuing our Video Interview Series, last month Dan McFadyen caught upwith Lyndon Blanchard, Chief Operating Officer from the Digital Skills Organisation to discuss bridging the gap between digital skills and employability - see the link below.
Also in this update, we return to our Lens on Educator series - see the latest post below.
Edalex is currently conducting market research into employability, skills-based learning and recognition as part of our Lens on Educators series. We greatly appreciate your time in sharing your insights with us - and sharing with your educator networks too! Click the link below or share the following link - https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2021-Educating-For-Employability
Video Interview Series - Lyndon Blanchard, Digital Skills Organisation (DSO)
In this conversation style interview, Dan McFadyen and Lyndon Blanchard, Chief Operating Officer of the Digital Skills Organisation (DSO), discuss the demand for digital skills supply at both national and global levels and how the DSO are working to enable digital upskilling and reskilling and create a job-ready workforce. Some of the topics covered include:
The Role of Digital Revolution in Learning, Upskilling or Reskilling
The Importance of Personalised Evidence to Learner’s Employability
How Learners/Employees Can Maximise the ROI from Their Education
Watch the full 37-minute interview, or individual discussions by topic.
In this multi-arc series, we will focus on the key Stakeholders in the Modern Credential Marketplace - who they are, what drives them, their challenges and opportunities - Learners, Educators, Employers, Associations and Governments.
Lens on Educators - Helping Learners Identify and Talk to Their Transferable Skills
As we focus our Lens on Educators in the latest arc of our Stakeholders in the Modern Credential Marketplace series, the real story is the interaction between educators and learners. Because it is the learners who will take the skills and knowledge transferred to them through education out into the world, where they will need to do something with them.
There are a few challenges. First, the skills taught must be defined in a way the learner understands and can communicate to others. We must use learning activities to embed the skills we wish to teach into the curriculum while maintaining the standards mandated by current frameworks. From there, we need to find a way to measure and assess skills in a meaningful way that goes beyond grades.
