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Digital Badges and Micro Credentials
Here is an interesting take on the state of digital badging. Discover some ideas around: take up of badging digital watermarks global markets open badging standards
Sector Four will power the gig economy
An article in the Journal of Sociology tackles the dilemma of the escalating chase for formal credentials and unfulfilled employment outcomes. Jenny Chesters and Johanna Wyn’s paper: ‘Chasing rainbows: How many educational qualifications do young people need to acquire meaningful, ongoing work?’ tackles this change. People will need life-long learning […]
Who’s afraid of the digital skills badge?
Deakin Universities’ Emeritus Professor Beverley Oliver has argued for the introduction of digital skill badges in stark contrast to the current direction of Government reviews in this area. Recognising transportable, micro skills is essential to the growth of sector four, and will be a great enabler of continuous learning. Campus […]
Swinburne digital futures study identifies integrated on job learning growth
Swinburne University has released a study on future learning in the digital workforce. (June 2019) Entitled “Peak Human Potential: Preparing Australia’s Workforce for the Digital Future”, the study takes a not unfamiliar route through digital disruption of the workforce, including job opportunities, skills and training needs. Workers prefer on job […]
Are Australian ‘Short Form’ credentials on the way?
With the re election of the Morrison LNP Government in Australia, there may be renewed emphasis on sector four skills development. This, of course, is in contrast to the now failed proposal by Labour to invest millions in the TAFE system as a means a restoring skills training. The current […]
Strong employer take-up of sector four skills training
In a report that slipped under the radar just before Christmas 2018, the NCVER reported survey results that provided strong support for the role of sector four in the Australian skills training market. The report still labours the use of the negative term ‘unaccredited’, which is at odds with the […]
SEEK invest big in online learning
The Australian reports on 29 April 2019 that SEEK is positioning equity in two major internet learning platforms Coursera and FutureLearn. The move sees further confirmation of the growth in learning delivery through non traditional means. It would be expected that students will start selecting learning modules ‘as required’ in […]
The disruption of MOOC
Online course availability continues to grow at a rapid rate, threatening disruption in traditional education, training and skills markets. Here are just some of the platforms providing both free and paid offers. Happy MOOCing! [ MOOC defined here. ] Lynda Udacity Coursera Thinkful General Assembly Here is a great list […]
Skills development policy under fire by BCA
Sector Four industry skills development continues to grow whilst government skills development languishes. According to the Business Council of Australia, VET sector development and funding suffers from ‘cultural bias’ against it in all quarters. Even Deakin University has been awarded an export grant to develop training for the Indonesian logistics […]
‘New-Collar’ jobs open for Sector Four skills says ‘Fast Company’
Fast Company reports that IBM is looking to diversity recruitment and look outside the four-year university degree square. “IBM’s head of talent organization, Sam Ladah, calls this sort of initiative a focus on “new-collar jobs.” The idea, he says, is to look toward different applicant pools to find new talent. […]