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Plan International's Technology Platform for Bridging Skills Gaps

13 December 2017
Plan International is focusing on the economic empowerment of young people using digital technologies. John Trew shares Plan International's technology platforms for bringing employment solutions to the youth and other marginalized sectors. This presentation is part of the session on Technology…

European Training Foundation

13 December 2017
The European Training Foundation shares trends in cross-sectoral cooperation in skills development, along with examples and lessons. Cesare Orestini shares the European Training Foundation's experiences in skills development, particularly its multisector natures that no longer takes place only…

Jobs and Technology: Implications for Education and Skills Development

13 December 2017
The development of skills—part of human capital—is an essential driver of economic growth and inclusion. Skills raise the productivity of workers, help build innovative capacity that sets the basis for developing and acquiring new technologies, and makes workers more adept at exploiting them.…

JobKred's Technology Platform for Bridging Skills Gaps

13 December 2017
Singapore-based start-up JobKred is making effective use of ICTs to bridge the skills gap in the workforce. JobKred is using big data and algorithms to decode demand and present them in an user-friendly manner based on what’s relevant to them on a platform and offers a technology platform as an…

Learning Equality: Bringing the Online Learning Revolution Offline

13 December 2017
Digital online educational resources are widely available to those who have reliable access to the internet. There are 4.3 billion people who lack consistent access to the internet, and therefore​ ​unable​ ​to​ ​use​ ​such​ ​resources​ ​to​ ​achieve​ ​high-quality​ ​education​ ​outcomes. Discover…

Shifting Teacher’s ‘Indigenous’ Beliefs

13 December 2017
Scaling is often defined as multiplying a product or innovation. This prevalent view is inherited from traditional manufacturing industry models and engineering. In education, scaling is about people capacity to enact innovations which can involve products, artifacts, or tools. Hence, cultivating…

Care Foundation: Changing Lives through Education

12 December 2017
Pakistan has the second largest population of out-of-school children in the world. As a pioneer of public and private school partnerships, CARE Foundation contributes to resolving Pakistan’s education crisis by endeavoring to provide quality marketable education to all through its Government School…

Extramarks

12 December 2017
By tailoring instruction to each student's unique needs, current understanding, and interests while ensuring that all responses subscribe to sound pedagogy, Extramarks brings about a fundamental shift to learning through the intelligent adaptive learning approach. It subscribes to the adaptive…

Can Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Deliver on its Promise? Assuring Quality in TVET

12 December 2017
Is technical and vocational education and training (TVET) keeping up with a world in constant motion? Addressing the make-or-break question on how to ensure quality in TVET is crucial for assuring it remains relevant in the future. Findings of the German Development Cooperation on quality…

The Future of Work: Is This Time Different?

12 December 2017
What skills are most critical for future jobs in light of the rapid changes in technology and development in automation, artificial intelligence, and robots? How can low-skilled workers cope with technological advancement? In this presentation, Carl Benedikt Frey of Oxford Martin School, gives an…