Lens on Employers – Educator and Industry Collaborations

Lens on Employers - Educator and Industry Collaborations

Over the past year, we’ve focussed our Lens on Learners: the types of learners, how they learn, and what they want from their education. With our Lens on Educators, we’ve explored what it will take for the education system to effectively bridge the gap between learners and employers.

Bridging the Gap Between Digital Skills and Employability for the Future of Work

Bridging the Gap Between Digital Skills and Employability for the Future of Work

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.

Lens on Educators – The Unbundling of Education and What it Means

Lens on Educators - The Unbundling of Education and What it Means

Centralised methods of education have been the hub of learning historically for a long time. However, at what we now consider the K-12 level, education was often decentralised. Learning occurred at home, or with a small local community of leaders with different specialties, in one-room schoolhouses and more.

Lens on Educators – Career Mobility, Web 3.0, Fortnite and Meta Universities

Lens on Educators - Career Mobility

“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.” – Charlie Munger We focus our Lens on Educators a bit wider than usual today, as we digress into the realm of possibility. We take a blue-sky approach to consider what the future world of learning might look like if we borrowed a verification system […]

What Learners Need from Employability

What Learners Need from Employability

All degrees are not created equal, and employers know that. They also know that just because a learner has completed a course of study does not mean they have both the soft and hard skills needed to perform the work in the position they are seeking. In other words, a degree does not equal employability in all cases. In this information-rich Credentialate Guide we explore what employability outcomes learners, educators and employers want.

Lens on Educators – Helping Learners Identify & Talk to Their Transferable Skills

Lens on Educators - Helping Learners Identify & 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 […]

Aligning Non-formal to Formal Learning Pathways

Aligning Non-formal to Formal Learning Pathways

In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Jeffrey Lehrer, National RTO Compliance Manager from Scouts Australia, discuss the challenges and opportunities around aligning non-formal learning to formal learning pathways for both their youth members and adult volunteers. They also discuss what youth organisations globally are doing to help participants gain recognition of transferable skills […]

Lens on Educators – How Educators Can Impact Employability Outcomes

Lens on Educators - How Educators Can Impact Employability Outcomes

Continuing our Stakeholders in the Modern Credential Marketplace series, we turn our Lens on Educators, starting with a look at how educators can impact the employability outcomes of learners and programs around them now. The reason is simple. Change must start somewhere, and as when setting any goal, we need to aim for that which […]