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Skills & Employability – Lifelong Learning as a “Must”
• Employability• Being equipped with valued skills for real-world job roles• Maintaining/Adapting the Skills over ones lifetime
• At the Heart of the Lisbon Agenda• Competitiveness & Jobs• Education levels and Employment Rates
• Key Questions• Role of Technology to support the Lifelong Learning Process ?• Innovation to give new Momentum to e-Learning ?• Measures to be taken by Public Sector and Private Players ?
• Agenda• Changes and what they mean for learning • “Disruptive Learning Innovation” on the Horizon (finally) ?• Actions by Public and Private Players
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Not so fast……the new World will be “blended” – the 4 Cs• Content
• High Quality and Open Source/Self-made • Specialized quality content scarce and costly• IP and Copyrights to be reinforced besides “Openness”• Trusted Sources and Wikis, Blogs, Vlogs etc.
• Communities• Chat-communities vs. professionally targeted communities• Consumer-Groups/Lobbies• Closed Groups with high professional specialization• Expert-Advice via IM-based Communities
• Control• Blending of Push and Pull• “Common Core Programs/Content”
• Certified Quality• Quality Standards emerging • EFQUEL• CEL (EMFD)
However – eLearning 2.0 Offers important new Capabilities
• Need to be “tamed” and leveraged• Adaptation for Multiple Generational needs (Yers vs. Baby Boomers)• New Collaborative Work Environments – Collaborative Innovation•
• Enabling the Knowledge Worker/Knowledge Entrepreneur• Specialized Knowledge/Communities/Search Engines• Closed Groups with high professional specialization
• Converging Devices and new Content Options adapted to Learner Needs• Podcasting gaining momentum• Micro-Media and Microlearning emerging (ARC/Research Studios Austria
• Development of Human Resource Strategies at Country/Region Level• Understanding/Anticipating changing Skills/Needs• Strong Industry Involvement• Early Identifications of Gaps/Shortages• Yearly Action Plans as part of i2010 plans
• Targeted Research Funding and EU and Country Level• Generational Requirements• New Collaborative Work Environments• Adaptive Technologies
• Applied Research in Lifelong Learning• “Living Labs” as opposed to traditional Labs• Co-Creation processes between providers and users• Large Scale Demonstrators – capture learning as you go• Stronger coordination in applied learning research – focus on Outputs• Leverage EU Funding (Structural Funds and CIP) and local programs
• Improve Formal Education (Quantity and Quality)• Higher Upper Secondary and Tertiary Education – increase in Employment Rates • Increase focus on “Soft Skills” (Communication, Team, Learning etc.) without neglecting analytical and problem solving skills• Cross-Discipline Skills• Applied Skills as opposed to pure Theory (Gaming/Simulations)• Real World experiences using virtual capabilities• Higher Weight of real-world experiences in formal qualification
• Increase level of e-Skills for the 21st Century• Basic Literacy (Baby Boomer Generation)• Advanced and New Skills – Services Science Discipline (Services Science, Management and Engineering)
• Labor Market Fexiblity and Learning Incentives/Support
• Support and Develop Quality Schemes
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“The chief economic priority for developed countries is to raise the productivity of knowledge . . . The country that does this first will dominate the twenty-first century economically.”
Peter F. Drucker
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–more critical than ever in the context of a "knowledge based society".
- pays off for all concerned – the state, the employer and the individual.
Investment in Learning
Examples
–- Knowledge-based economy and expansion of the services sector make human
capital central to increasing employment, labour productivity & growth.
- Investment in ICTs, innovation, physical infrastructure etc. cannot be efficient
without well-educated, skilled and adaptable workforce.
- 1960 – 1990: investment in human capital in the EU accounted for
22% of productivity growth and 45% of the productivity differential (sample
average in 1990). Schooling investment has very strong impact on percentages.
Direct economic returns of schooling investment compare very well to
the returns of physical and financial investment.
Source: Europa
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The Lisbon Strategy – Education as a Core Element
“Europe to become a worldwide quality reference in education & training by 2010” Barcelona European Council, March 2002
“Strategic goals for education & training: Quality, Access and Openness to the wider world” Stockholm European Council, March 2001
“…the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”
Lisbon European Council, March 2000
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SMEsCompetitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
Innovation activities : Support of poles of excellence and to the provision of services to enterprises. For example through:
-fostering sector-specific innovation, clusters, networks of excellence, public-private innovation partnerships and cooperation with relevant international organisations, and the use of innovation management;
–-supporting national/regional programmes for business innovation;
–-supporting the demonstration of innovative technologies;
–-supporting services for trans-national knowledge and technology transfer and for intellectual and industrial property management;
–-exploring new types of innovation services;
–-facilitating technology transfer through data archiving and relays.
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1. One-way customer relations2. Ivory-towered R&D labs3. Organizational silos4. Risk-averse top management5. Unskilled partners6. Limited local talent
Market irrelevant inventionsSlow rate of inventionNo collaborative idea generation Eschews radical innovationFail to keep pace with innovationSlow the innovation cycles
The increase demand for technology innovation can’t be met by firms’ weak supply-side capabilities
Overview of the rankings, methods and changes E-readiness, now in its seventh year of publication, is defined as in indication how amenable a
national market is to Internet-based opportunities The ranking evaluates the technological, economic, political & social assets of 68 countries and
their cumulative impact on respective information economies The rankings are based upon nearly 100 quantitative and qualitative criteria, organized in six
E-readiness, now in its seventh year of publication, is defined as in indication how amenable a national market is to Internet-based opportunities
The ranking evaluates the technological, economic, political & social assets of 68 countries and their cumulative impact on respective information economies
The rankings are based upon nearly 100 quantitative and qualitative criteria, organized in six distinct categories*: Connectivity & technology infrastructure
Availibility, affordibility, quality & reliability of telephony services, personal computers & the Internet Business Environment
Expected attractiveness of the general business environment over the next five years Consumer & business adoption
Prevalence of e-business practices in the country Legal & policy environment
The country’s overall legal framework and specific laws governing Internet use Social & cultural environment
Pre-conditions for applying e-business, like literacy, education, Internet experience, and entrepreneurial attitude
Supporting e-ServicesPresence of intermediaries and ancillary services like standards, consulting & IT services, and back-office solutions