The Great Skills Gap: Optimizing Talent for the Future of Work
- 5h 43m
- Christine Farrugia, Jason Wingard
- De Gruyter Inc
- 2021
An extraordinary confluence of forces stemming from automation and digital technologies is transforming both the world of work and the ways we educate current and future employees to contribute productively to the workplace.
The Great Skills Gap opens with the premise that the exploding scope and pace of technological innovation in the digital age is fast transforming the fundamental nature of work. Due to these developments, the skills and preparation that employers need from their talent pool are shifting. The accelerated pace of evolution and disruption in the competitive business landscape demands that workers be not only technically proficient, but also exceptionally agile in their capacity to think and act creatively and quickly learn new skills.
This book explores how these transformative forces are—or should be—driving innovations in how colleges and universities prepare students for their careers. Focused on the impact of this confluence of forces at the nexus of work and higher education, the book's contributors—an illustrious group of leading educators, prominent employers, and other thought leaders—answer profound questions about how business and higher education can best collaborate in support of the twenty-first century workforce.
About the Author
Jason Wingard is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Human Capital Management at Columbia University School of Professional Studies. He is the former Chief Learning Officer at Goldman Sachs and Vice Dean of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Learning to Succeed: Reinventing Corporate Education in a World of Unrelenting Change, and co-author of Learning for Life: How Continuous Education Will Keep Us Competitive in the Global Knowledge Economy(both with AMACOM, 2015). b>Christine Farrugia is Director of Research Initiatives at Columbia University School of Professional Studies.
In this Book
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Foreword
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Equipping a New Generation With the Skills Needed in the Automation Age
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The Role of Citizen Developers in Developing Technological Literacy
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The Future of Work: Four Difficult Questions I Ask Myself as an Employer
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Why Geography is So Important
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Enabling a High-Performing, Human-Centered Organization in Pfizer's Upjohn Division
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How the Future of Work Impacts the Workforce of Technical Organizations
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Corporate Learning and Development Has a Vital Role to Play in the Robotics Revolution—Is It Ready?
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Introduction
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Supporting Unlearning to Enable Upskilling
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Higher Education's Changing Faces: Serving STEM Learners for a Lifetime
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The Future of Business Education: New Economies of Automation, Certification, and Scale
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Back to the Future: Fragile Workers, Higher Education, and the Future Knowledge Economy
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The Evolution of the Liberal Arts
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The Evolution of Liberal Education in a Technology-Mediated, Global Society
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The Core and the Adult Student
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Perpetual Learning as Alumni Engagement: Renewing the Social Contract
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Introduction
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Harnessing the Power and Potential of Diversity and Inclusion
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Public Education and the Future of Work
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Developing Workers for the Workplace: How Businesses and Higher Education Can Alleviate Worker Barriers to Retraining or Upskilling
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Past as Prologue: Apprenticeship and the Future of Work
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Bachelor's-Level Registered Apprenticeship for Engineers: Possibilities and Challenges
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The Agility Imperative: The Future of Work and Business– Higher Education Partnerships
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Demand for the “Blended Digital Professional”
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A Coherent Approach to Connect Education and the Future of Work
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Conclusion
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Notes
