D-Dialogues session - March, 15 - 5pm :

  In Europe and around the world, new skills-based approaches to job-training and job placement are emerging. Many of these job training programs are being offered online, some within existing national educational frameworks, and others offered by private sector enterprises. This panel discussion of high-level experts will examine this trend in detail with a special focus on the overall utility of skills-based approaches to promote social and economic mobility. Three expert panelists will explore the roles of government, policy, standards-setting groups and organizations, educational institutions, industry groups, and individuals in determining how the quality of outcomes of skill-based approaches can best be measured, monitored, and continuously improved. The key issues under consideration will include the potential costs and benefits of skills-based approaches, including the degree to which these practices omit thematic topics in higher education that play a role in protecting social cohesion and democratic values. The panel will also consider the question of how skills-based approaches to job-training can maintain currency in the face of rapidly changing technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and trends in globalization and re-nationalization of markets, manufacturing, and service sector occupations. 

Speakers
Mitchell Peters,
European project lead on Micro-credentialing in European Higher Education. Postdoctoral Researcher at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Kathy Mannes,
Vice president, impact partnerships, at Jobs for the Future
Peter Mirski,
Head of Department & Studies, Chief Information Officer at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI)
Moderator:  Hal Plotkin, Senior scholar at the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) and former senior policy advisor on higher education in the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama.

ONLINE EVENT
March 15, 2023
5:00 – 6:00 pm CET
Registration is free but required.
Please register here:
https://bit.ly/D_Dialogues