The Modules are designed so faculty may incorporate elements of the modules, or entire modules, as a way to encourage and guide students in becoming proactive in planning and strategizing their future to be competitive in an ever-changing global workforce.
CONNECTED LEARNING: ACADEMICS...CAREER...LIFE
Taking Ownership: The 21ST Century
Career & Lifelong Learning Initiative (Draft)
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March 4, 2016
In this article Mr. Khosla proposes that every student should master what he calls a Liberal Science curriculum...preparation for jobs in a competitive and evolving global economy.
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September, 2016
According to a recent research study, employers believe college programs with structured curriculum that includes both content knowledge and the development of broad, transferable skills is needed to prepare new graduates for their careers.
Fall, 2016
Digital badging has increased exponentially at universities across the nation. In short, digital badges are visual presentations representing verifiable knowledge, skills, and abilities issued by an institution.
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LEAP rubrics for sixteen Essential Learning Outcomes that all students need for success in work, citizenship, and life
Center for Curriculum Design graph and interactive tool shows interconnections between knowledge disciplines and are labeled within three groups - Arts, Humanities & STEM
Numerous employer groups, educational organizations, professional associations, and federal agencies have identified sets of employability skills, with different focuses and target audiences. This tool provides an interactive framework to identify those skills.
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2016
2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report The report addresses the best skills to boost your salary, top 3 skills by major job group, most-commonly lacking hard and soft skills in recent grads, level of preparedness by recent grads, the regionally most common skills - indicating the most popular professions by region, the best emerging skills for the future, top skills by level of position to land a promotion, least impressive skills by job group, and top skills by generation.
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Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce provides an interactive tool to allow users to determine how much college graduates, both at the undergraduate level and graduate level, earn. Nationally and within states, 15 major groups and 137 detailed major subgroups were identified. Results indicate that among college graduates with the same majors, earnings vary by state.