• Skills Label Personas

    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

  • Use Learning, Course and Job Labels As a File

    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

  • Does Upward Mobility Require a College Degree

    Watched a video by the Economist on how upward mobility (a person makes more than their parents) is much more difficult now than forty years ago (particularly here in the US). To summarize, the commentary largely focused on placing a larger social-economic pool into flagship universities. While I applaud what some organizations and feeder preparatory… Continue Reading

  • Skills Based Approach on iOS

    Launched Skills Based Approach app for iOS. This version is only an initial release, later ones will include at a minimum the features and functionality of the web and Android apps. The value proposition of the Skills Based Approach app is setting up skill sets daily or weekly (as instances), so learners and workers respond… Continue Reading

  • Skill Syllabus on iOS

    Launched Skill Syllabus on IOS (already established on Android) to combine the standard quantitative fields of a standard syllabus with qualitative skills sections (established by the patented Learning and Course Labels) – all from the perspective of a learner or worker. If you are a practitioner who teaches any type of course – online, classroom,… Continue Reading

  • Release of Learning Labels Create on iOS

    Officially launched Learning Labels Create on iOS accessible in the Apple Play Store. All three of the labels: learning, course, and job labels get created and published from the app. New users are able to signup securely from the app. While the onboarding process is not yet refined, a new user should understand what each… Continue Reading

  • Learning Labels Create App on IOS

    My team is on the verge of releasing Learning Labels Create App on IOS in the Apple App Store. The goal is the create, publish and catalog each of the labels – learning, course, and job – natively from the app. There are perceived advantages by using many of the rich features and interfaces on… Continue Reading

  • Pure Application of the Skills Based Approach Methodology

    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