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Why You Should Value Competencies and Skills Over College Degrees?

Avilar

Why should your organization value competencies and skills over degrees? In other words, to explore options that emphasize skills and competencies over college degrees. Why should your organization value competencies and skills over college degrees? College degree programs aren’t keeping up. What’s happening now?

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Why You Should Value Competencies and Skills Over College Degrees

Avilar

Why should your organization value competencies and skills over degrees? In other words, to explore options that emphasize skills and competencies over college degrees. Why should your organization value competencies and skills over college degrees? College degree programs aren’t keeping up. What’s happening now?

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Top 4 soft skills employees are developing in VR

STRIVR

Enterprise leaders today are faced with a unique and growing challenge around building soft skills in their organizations. . Around the globe, corporate learning experts are pushing the need for soft skills training. We need to take these ‘power skills’ seriously, and build experiential programs that start at the top.”

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A Q+A with AI UVA Professor Rajkumar Venkatesan

Coursera

We recently asked Rajkumar Venkatesan , Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, about his experience teaching in the AI Marketing Certificate program on Coursera. Both program participants and I get to learn from industries across the world.

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After EI, DI?

CLO Magazine

Development, at a personal as well as professional level, is triggered by the discomforting experience of being placed in an unfamiliar and challenging environment, one in which the knowledge and skills that normally serve you well don’t seem to work. Consequently, we have to take on new skills and new knowledge to operate in this new world.

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Trends in Learning: What’s Latest!

Origin Learning

A 2013 Accenture survey on Skills and Employment Trends revealed that a large skills gap exists in most businesses. Nearly half (46 per cent) of the 400 participating executives were concerned that they won’t have the skills they need in the next one to two years.

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Heutagogy, Self-Directed Learning and Complex Work

ID Reflections

“A heutagogical learning environment facilitates the development of capable learners and emphasizes both the development of learner competencies as well as development of the learner’s capability and capacity to learn" (Ashton and Newman, 2006; Hase and Kenyon, 2000). Will past experience help?