Techno-News Blog. “Companies are having trouble keeping up,” says Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online learning platform Coursera, of the rapid rate of technological acceleration worldwide today. “Even large companies that have a dedicated learning and development function don’t have the resources and expertise to teach all of those new skills to people spread around the world.” For small companies, such resources are obviously even more limited. More...
Adapter la formation professionnelle de la branche des services de l’automobile aux opportunités associées au développement des technologies numériques telle est l’ambition du projet P.I.A labélisé par l’Etat, porté par l’ANFA et ses partenaires. Plus...
Par d’un décret publié au Journal officiel du 17 juillet 2018, le "haut-commissaire à la transformation des compétences" est devenu le "haut-commissaire aux compétences et à l’inclusion par l’emploi".
Le bailleur social Lille Métropole Habitat s’est engagé dans une démarche de formation, visant à accompagner son personnel de terrain dans l’acquisition des savoirs de base via le certificat CléA. Plus...
Vous avez des difficultés à trouver un job dans votre métier ? Savez-vous que vos compétences professionnelles peuvent matcher avec d’autres professions que la vôtre. Comment identifier ces savoir-faire qui permettent de passer d’un métier à un autre ? Voici trois étapes pour y parvenir. Plus...
Que ce soit pour faire le point sur ma situation, construire ou valider mon projet professionnel et conduire ma recherche d’emploi, avec mon profil de compétences, je choisis les informations que je souhaite partager avec mon conseiller et celles que je veux montrer aux recruteurs. Plus...
Competency-Based Degrees: Coming Soon to a Campus Near You
Joel Shapiro, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 19, 2014
The Chronicle's take on competency-based learning is, not surprisingly, negative. "Traditional educators often find competency programs alarming—and understandably so," writes Joel Shapiro. More...
Matching Skills and Labour Market Needs: Building Social Partnerships for better skills and better jobs
Unattributed, World Economic Forum, February 17, 2014
This document was produced for the World Economic Forum in Davos in January. "Skills mismatches occur when workers have either fewer or more skills than jobs require." Generally the focus is on those with too few skills; the report recommends adopting a "learn first" approach and cautions that "promoting jobs without paying due attention to their quality and to the skills required may only buy time and ultimately prolong the jobs crisis." In Canada, in addition to underqualification, there is also significant overqualification. More...
The Other 21st Century Skills: Why Teach Them
Jackie Gerstein, User Generated Education, February 10, 2014
I've seen versions of this list previously and they bother me a little. The items are purportedly 'other' 21st century skills and include among them 'grit', 'resilience', 'self-regulation' and similar character traits. They read to me like a list of the traits poor people don't have (and which of course therefore explain why they are poor). I'm not doubting the value of such traits, but question their application in a list of "21st century skills". More...
General Education's Remake
Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed, January 23, 2014
To be clear, I don't think competency-based education is bad, per se, and I think it is certainly a better approach than what might be called curricular or subject-based edducation. More...
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