Employability With Purpose
Questions for Reflection and Action:
Questions for Reflection and Action:
- What are we doing to assure that what we are teaching will be relevant to graduates in five years?
- Are we sure that the career path that we are preparing will be there in five years, or will machine learning bots and other technologies overtake that role?
- How are we preparing our students to keep up with the incredible rate of change?
- How are we preparing our students to transition throughout their careers to the changing workforce needs?
- Are we engaging students in the teaching and learning process?
- Take a look at your assessments - are they relevant authentic assessments?
Answers change over time and you can find them in your PLN!
Answers change over time and you can find them in your PLN!
Personal Learning Networks for Teachers (an online class)
Shift: Disruptive eLearning: Personal Learning Networks
Readings:
Readings:
Creating a Personalized Learning Network
https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/files/ccic/pdf/articles/creating-a-personalized-learning-network.pdf
Using Social Media in Your PLN
20 Tips for Creating a Personal Learning Network
http://www.gettingsmart.com/2013/01/20-tips-for-creating-a-professional-learning-network/
A new Pew report (published May 3, 2017) addresses the future of jobs and job training, and contains a quote from UIS's Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning, Ray Schroeder:
“It is projected that those entering the workforce today will pursue four or five different careers (not just jobs) over their lifetime. These career changes will require retooling, training and education. The adult learners will not be able to visit physical campuses to access this learning; they will learn online. I expect that we will see the further development of artificially intelligent teaching specialists such as ‘Jill Watson’ at Georgia Tech, the virtual graduate assistant who was thought to be human by an entire class of computer science students. I anticipate the further development and distribution of holoportation technologies such as those developed by Microsoft using HoloLens for real-time, three-dimensional augmented reality. These teaching tools will enable highly sophisticated interactions and engagement with students at a distance. They will further fuel the scaling of learning to reach even more massive online classes.”
“It is projected that those entering the workforce today will pursue four or five different careers (not just jobs) over their lifetime. These career changes will require retooling, training and education. The adult learners will not be able to visit physical campuses to access this learning; they will learn online. I expect that we will see the further development of artificially intelligent teaching specialists such as ‘Jill Watson’ at Georgia Tech, the virtual graduate assistant who was thought to be human by an entire class of computer science students. I anticipate the further development and distribution of holoportation technologies such as those developed by Microsoft using HoloLens for real-time, three-dimensional augmented reality. These teaching tools will enable highly sophisticated interactions and engagement with students at a distance. They will further fuel the scaling of learning to reach even more massive online classes.”
Sources to begin building your PLN
Sources to begin building your PLN
Professional Continuing & Online Ed Blog
Recession Realities in Higher Education