Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Vocational and Professional Education and Training econference -

The Vocational and Professional Education and Training sector  (VPET) in Hong Kong, held an e-conference on the 15th of May

Video of the keynote and panel presentations, along with accompaning presentation slides are now availed via this link.

Of note - Olli-Pekka Heinonen's (Finnish National Agency for Education) presentation on 'Six seismic shifts in VPET'. These are:
- Shifting the education system to a Learning system
- Focus on mass education to personalised learning
- Individual professionalism towards shared and dynamic professionalism
- Instead of recruitment based HR to supporting learning organisations
- Shift from fixed mindset to growth mindset 
- Instead of providing a map, ensure the skills required to be able to use a compass

Good overview on how to meet the challenges posed by the future of work.

On a similar vein, Professor Chris Hubbard (Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University in the UK) on 'Making vocational education work in a changing world'. Stressed how work was changing faster than education change. Detailed the 4 steps to gear up education systems to cope with the rapid change in work:
- Put the individual learner at the centre
- Create multiple 'pathways' to prosperity
- Buld connections between government, employers and educational institutions
- Ensure accountability measures drive flexibilities

There were plenary/thematic sessions on:
- applied education and future skills in the digital era
- why workplace learning counts?
- Skills change lives
- AI, data analytics, cybersecurity: Are digital skills enough for workplace?

In these, a selection of presentations were made with some accompanied by presentation slides.

A reflection session closed the econference.

Good to see the layout of an e-conference. I particularly liked the reflection session at the end but may also be useful to have small reflective sessions after each keynote/thematic session. 



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