Up-skilling, you say!?
Accelarating technology* is changing the way of work, for millions.
Business leaders, education institutions and policy makers will have to work on tacktics to benfit from those technologies while creating new, innovative ways of working and providing new skills to the workforce.
A few good practices are shown by Amazon that plan to invest over $700 million to provide up-skilling training programs for one in three of its employees across the U.S. and it is looked into as a large-scale experiment in whether companies can remake their existing work forces to fit a fast-changing technological world.
Carnegie Mellon University released the OpenSimon Toolkit, which makes technology-based learning techniques, software and underlying code freely accessible. These tools are believed to democratise learning science and create a global, collaborative community of learning engineers within higher education.
Another successful model is the Grand Ecole du Numérique: a multi-stakeholder initiative founded by the French Ministry for the Economy and Finance. This program issues a label to ICT skills training programs that meet inclusiveness and diversity criteria, which then become eligible to receive funding for up to 80% of their costs through a grant from the Grand Ecole.
Fieldwork Robotics trialling a robot raspberry harvesting system on a British farm, 2019.
*computarisation, AI, machine learning, robotics process automation etc.