Workforce upskilling: can universities meet the challenges of lifelong learning?

IF 2.4 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS International Journal of Information and Learning Technology Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI:10.1108/ijilt-01-2023-0001
Josephine Lang
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PurposeSince new digital micro-credential technologies emerged a decade ago, there has been a rapid rise in micro-credentials in the education landscape. Much has been promised about these educational technologies, yet there is much confusion by key stakeholders in the digital micro-credential ecosystem. This confusion has led to significant efforts globally to define micro-credentials to ensure quality learning and generate beneficial impacts to learners, employers, education providers and edtech organisations.Design/methodology/approachThis commentary reviews relevant literature on digital micro-credentials and other alternative credentials to determine how these educational technologies can meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to nurture lifelong learning for working learners.FindingsUniversities are being challenged to address the changing needs and uncertainty being introduced by the Fourth and Fifth Industrial Revolutions, particularly with implications for workforce upskilling and lifelong learning. To adapt, universities will need to rethink their roles and shift their institutional mindsets in how they may approach the challenges through mechanisms such as digital micro-credntials.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper focuses on the analysis of five policy statements about micro-credentials. While these policy statements represent a sample, there is a representation of Western education-related systems. Thus, they skew the findings towards Western education systems thinking.Practical implicationsUnderstanding how micro-credentials are being positioned within education-related systems is useful for applying the educational technologies by, for example, universities, learners and employers.Social implicationsProvides an overview of how these educational technologies may provide beneficial impacts for society as it plans to adapt to economic uncertainty and change.Originality/valueThe commentary provides a policy context for the emerging use of micro-credential technologies to examine demands for workforce upskilling.
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劳动力技能提升:大学能否应对终身学习的挑战?
目的自十年前出现新的数字微证书技术以来,微证书在教育领域迅速兴起。关于这些教育技术,人们已经做出了很多承诺,但数字微证书生态系统中的关键利益相关者却感到困惑。这种混乱导致全球范围内做出了重大努力来定义微观证书,以确保高质量的学习,并对学习者、雇主、教育提供者和教育技术组织产生有益影响。设计/方法论/方法本评论回顾了有关数字微证书和其他替代证书的相关文献,以确定这些教育技术如何满足第四次工业革命的要求,为在职学习者培养终身学习。Findings大学正面临挑战,以应对第四次和第五次工业革命带来的不断变化的需求和不确定性,特别是对劳动力技能提升和终身学习的影响。为了适应这种情况,大学需要重新思考自己的角色,并转变机构心态,通过数字微信用等机制应对挑战。研究局限性/含义本文重点分析了关于微型证书的五项政策声明。虽然这些政策声明代表了一个样本,但也代表了西方教育相关系统。因此,他们将研究结果偏向于西方教育体系的思想。实际含义了解微型证书在教育相关系统中的定位有助于大学、学习者和雇主应用教育技术。社会影响概述了这些教育技术如何在社会计划适应经济不确定性和变化时为社会带来有益影响。原创性/价值该评论为新出现的使用微型证书技术来审查劳动力技能提升需求提供了政策背景。
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International Journal of Information and Learning Technology
International Journal of Information and Learning Technology COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-
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期刊介绍: International Journal of Information and Learning Technology (IJILT) provides a forum for the sharing of the latest theories, applications, and services related to planning, developing, managing, using, and evaluating information technologies in administrative, academic, and library computing, as well as other educational technologies. Submissions can include research: -Illustrating and critiquing educational technologies -New uses of technology in education -Issue-or results-focused case studies detailing examples of technology applications in higher education -In-depth analyses of the latest theories, applications and services in the field The journal provides wide-ranging and independent coverage of the management, use and integration of information resources and learning technologies.
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