Announcing a release of a new book: Skills Based Approach, a significantly revised version of A Skills Based Approach to Developing a Career released in 2013… http://www.skillsbasedapproach.com
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How would a consortium use my team’s platform for a #workforce or #skills initiative? 1) Understand the Skills Based Approach #methodology. Give learners, workers, and practitioners a copy of the book ‘A Skills Based Approach to Developing a Career’ at cost or free. 2) Adopt a Skills Culture, a #growthmindset supporting all the applications. Share best practices on the community website. 3) Get… Continue Reading
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In nine years of application design, i realize users do not like data entry. It is more painful with repeat data. This is not just my moo (master of the obvious) observation, but the same theme from two formal UI tests during two Spring semesters with grad students, professors, and teachers. One of my conclusions… Continue Reading
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Upgraded all the frameworks, libraries, and assemblies supporting the learning labels system. (Like building a house, then renovating with the latest appliances and ‘house keeping’) One good new feature is the parsing of a ‘task sheet’, ‘lesson plan’ or ‘product review’ to automatically add skills to a learning label. (Same basic functionality as shown previously… Continue Reading
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Video summarizes new concepts, features, and vision; including: 1) Smart, intuitive dashboard to manage a collection of labels; 2) Context and skills set searches; 3) Job Labels. Seeding for a Job Board. 4) Create learning pathways; 5) Two research proposals. 6) Three ways application / system helps in our current crisis.
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Thinking of adopting a LMS, but not sure and rushed. This is a free, light weight #LMS solution. What to do… Identify all assignments / tasks / projects for a course. create labels for each of them. (Longest part of the process.) Create quizzes for before, during, and/or after the assignment. Add graphical badges after… Continue Reading
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Create effective learning pathways with the four elements in the learning labels system. Directly set expectations at each level. Full transparency as each element get a unique URL and landing page. Credibility is established on a task level; skill expectations are linked to education and training standards. There is also a peer review process. Competencies… Continue Reading
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Introducing new ‘job’ labels, a standard representation of skills for a job description. Job labels define requirements for prior experience and the first-year application of skills. Like learning labels, jobs labels are an ideal format to make basis of comparison decisions and quickly understand a set to requirements. Job labels formalize the skills section on… Continue Reading
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Created a new ‘Job Description Label’ as a standard format to make comparisons with jobs. Not meant to replace, but augment or supplement this well-established format. They are fully integrated in a smart, responsive dashboard. They are also now part of the online search. Not yet ready to showcase the content, but the framework /… Continue Reading
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There is functionality to create a job description within the learning labels system. This is not meant to replace, but rather supplement or augment this well-established format. Many of the standard sections / fields are included, along with a skills section that is designed to get the required information to calculate Skill Points ®.
