Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways
The future of work and the ever-changing skills demand in the labour market has been a constant debate and pressing challenge for higher education institutions (HEI’s), governments and industry. In the current context, HEI’s must increase the transformational effect of education on people’s employab...
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| description | The future of work and the ever-changing skills demand in the labour market has been a constant debate and pressing challenge for higher education institutions (HEI’s), governments and industry. In the current context, HEI’s must increase the transformational effect of education on people’s employability, on organizations’ competitiveness and on society’s progress. This paper presents the design and development of a mock-up career guidance tool to empower lifelong learners through digital reskilling and upskilling. We discuss the methods used for designing a skills alignment tool and a smart catalogue for identifying stackable training pathways in two specific disciplinary domains. The skills alignment methodology features a skill gap analysis (SGA) in the occupational domains of Data Science and Chemistry, linked to the evolution and demand of the European labour market through an ESCO compatible tool. The smart program catalog presents the necessary program information to facilitate the creation of stackable training pathways. Considerations are made for the importance of virtual career guidance tools for lifelong learners as we face the ever-changing demand of the labor market and as we continue to embrace online education, micro-credentialing and the digital transformation of higher education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e3b860d99e4243e6a7ffdcc4c9f28d472024-01-18T05:31:38ZengUbiquity PressUbiquity Proceedings2631-56022023-10-0110.5334/uproc.7171Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling PathwaysMitchell Peters0Corinne Aubert1François Vincent Rochet2Carmen Pagés3Francesco Bullini4Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaSorbonne UniversitySorbonne UniversityUniversitat Oberta de CatalunyaBullini EnterpriseThe future of work and the ever-changing skills demand in the labour market has been a constant debate and pressing challenge for higher education institutions (HEI’s), governments and industry. In the current context, HEI’s must increase the transformational effect of education on people’s employability, on organizations’ competitiveness and on society’s progress. This paper presents the design and development of a mock-up career guidance tool to empower lifelong learners through digital reskilling and upskilling. We discuss the methods used for designing a skills alignment tool and a smart catalogue for identifying stackable training pathways in two specific disciplinary domains. The skills alignment methodology features a skill gap analysis (SGA) in the occupational domains of Data Science and Chemistry, linked to the evolution and demand of the European labour market through an ESCO compatible tool. The smart program catalog presents the necessary program information to facilitate the creation of stackable training pathways. Considerations are made for the importance of virtual career guidance tools for lifelong learners as we face the ever-changing demand of the labor market and as we continue to embrace online education, micro-credentialing and the digital transformation of higher education.https://account.ubiquityproceedings.com/index.php/up-j-up/article/view/71lifelong learningagile continuous educationskills alignmentskills gapskills mappingupskillingreskilling |
| spellingShingle | Mitchell Peters Corinne Aubert François Vincent Rochet Carmen Pagés Francesco Bullini Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways Ubiquity Proceedings lifelong learning agile continuous education skills alignment skills gap skills mapping upskilling reskilling |
| title | Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways |
| title_full | Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways |
| title_fullStr | Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways |
| title_full_unstemmed | Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways |
| title_short | Skills Alignment for Lifelong Learners in Higher Education: Smart Catalogues for Reskilling and Upskilling Pathways |
| title_sort | skills alignment for lifelong learners in higher education smart catalogues for reskilling and upskilling pathways |
| topic | lifelong learning agile continuous education skills alignment skills gap skills mapping upskilling reskilling |
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