Before and after the recent release, my team fielded more questions regarding use-cases and customer discovery. (For me) I always thought knowing our target areas is obvious: learning design, curriculum, training and workforce development. Though (our official) response is introducing personas to guide new users. The five User Personas for our learning labels application are:… Continue Reading
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First question my team fields from researchers: “Do you have a case study? Are there real current learning labels?”. Finally, my team could respond emphatically: “Yes.” There are now two hundred learning labels for STEM tasks in high school — Read on http://www.skillsculture.com/Blog/Display
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My team is deep in the process of making the creation of learning, course and job labels intuitive and realistic. I say the latter realizing through a couple UI Tests (observing testers) and my own testing of the apps most practitioners are simply not willing to type in composition fields (titles and descriptions) on a… Continue Reading
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Skills Based Approach (v.) – a lesson plan, project, course, training module, or simply a day’s work_ Learn more at http://www.skillsbasedapproach.com
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Got to add a mention of a recently granted patent to this timeline of my team’s skills platform (Skills Label, Skills Based Approach and Skills Culture). I thought the patent would open doors. Though as I recently submitted business and research proposals, I continue to face obstacles. Rather than authenticity, I face teams trying to… Continue Reading
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Satisfying to see an article by the Wall Street Journal speaking to a white collar and hoodie (techie) apprenticeship and highlight a fifty percent increase in apprenticeships this decade – the same duration I have been proposing the Skills Based Approach methodology. I would argue that higher education forced companies to create these programs by not offering… Continue Reading
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Finally updated the Skills Based Approach web application to match the interface and functionality of the previously released Android app. A goal of this app is to provide access across all devices and platforms with a browser. There are also advantages in accessing this app from a desktop / laptop / or tablet – like… Continue Reading
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Spoke with someone regarding the costs in producing quality videos to help in a pitch to an investor and attract practitioners, thought my recently granted patent might open some doors. The person I spoke to knew I did not have a lot to spend for productions, so he took a safe, cheap option by suggesting… Continue Reading
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One proposal of the patented learning labels system for the management and tracking of skills is to take a more scientific method in not only mapping skills to jobs, but also quantifying them. I use the analogy: Let’s map skills and Skill Points to learning expectations and job requirements, like atoms and coefficients to molecules Sometimes I… Continue Reading
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First, I decided to change the theme and reference of this blog to Skills Based Approach and related technologies. This provides supporting content for Skills Based Approach, Skills Label, and Skills Culture. This blog is meant to further promote the methodology, system, and mindset, respectively. Each of these technologies includes their own website, social media,… Continue Reading
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