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
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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
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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
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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
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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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My team and I would like to announce the May 2022 Learning Labels Release. The video is LIVE on the main website. For brevity, I skip defining the system. Use cases are referenced in the video screens showing the apps, but I do not talk about them in the narrative. I suggest last year’s video (link on the… Continue Reading
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New Course Labels, in between already established Learning Labels and Job Labels. These Course Labels are an effective way to determine an ROI for a course, make comparisons, and see learning in Skills – a smart, forward thinking complement to the standard credit hour system.
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Use the patent pending Skills Label TM system to create effective learning pathways. Connect tasks to projects / lesson plans to courses to jobs (do only what you need for your requirements). The revised pathways dashboard shows real time updates as you assign or unassign the different elements. New Skills Scorecard shows the updated aggregates… Continue Reading
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Earlier this week I heard about a special report on Lifelong Learning in the TheEconomist, so I scrambled around looking for a copy in the book and convenience stores in the area – without any luck. It was Martin Luther King Day so I had the day off. So, to get the six articles, I… Continue Reading
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I took a MOOC (free online course) and was impressed with the whole experience. The lecture was intriguing and lively, and delivered by a world-renowned MIT professor. The platform was effective. (I wrote a blog about my experience Free Online Courses.) The move to online courses is driven by not only cutting per student instruction costs… Continue Reading
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