Mindset in Motion (MIM)
Mindset in Motion (MIM) is a podcast made for university and college educators, career counselors, and leaders invested in supporting students and recent graduates with the tools and resources to thrive in their hopeful careers. Tune in to hear about the groundbreaking research, insights, and stories shaping experiential learning delivery excellence - all on one platform. MIM is brought to you by Symplicity's Mindset and hosted and produced by Director of Mindset, Bill Heinrich. Symplicity is a two-decade-long leader in technological innovation and deployment supporting higher education partners to deliver on the promise of student career readiness. Mindset connects big ideas to repeatable educational practices, guiding informed decision making, and learning experiences that support student success.
Mindset in Motion (MIM)
AI and Skills Translation for Career Preparation
Highlights
- Skills can be translated and so must the context. Having learners imagine and practice in context is highly valuable through project-based learning, internships, and other practical placements.
- Generative AI is part of the solution, but should help humans, not add unnecessary steps
- Institutions and industries can and should work together to identify skills and update their program offerings to match one another.
Guests
Cam Ballantyne, President at Orbis Communications, an education technology company.
Dr. Tatjana Titareva, Staff scientist at Department of Computing Science at Umeå universitet, Sweden, and
Dr. Nick Swayne, President of North Idaho College, a comprehensive community college in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Skills validation is a series of efforts that are both technical and social-in that data needs to be linked together in trustworthy ways. A learner learns or develops a skill or competency. That learning is then validated through a grade or competency assessment. The validated skill or competency is then recognized by an individual, institution, employer or other party. In this chain of events, we’ve generally determined that there is value for everyone. In recent years, efforts to make skills more accessible involved disaggregating and re arranging with learners and economic mobility in mind. Many campuses have entered this space with micro credentials and badges, and several organizations like C-BEN, Education Design Lab, e-campus Ontario, the US Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network, and One Ed-Tech have encouraged both public and private sector growth. Our three panelists each work in different parts of that system.
Links
C-BEN: https://www.c-ben.org/
Education Design Lab: https://eddesignlab.org/
eCampus Ontario: https://ecampusontario.ca/
US Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network: https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/solutions/workforce-development-and-training/t3-innovation-network
1Ed-Tech: https://www.1edtech.org/