Caught up with various postings on LinkedIn last week and found the link to an interview with Dr. Soon Joo Gog, Chief Futurist, Skills Officer and Research Officer at SkillsFuture in Singapore. I first met up with Soon Joo when she was Director of the Institute of Adult Learning and since then, have kept in touch and met up off and on when I have been in the region.
She has always provided a pragmatic but scholarly perspective, on the impact of the 4th Industrial revolution/Industry 4.0, on work and learning.
In this video on an interview conducted by Learn Tech Asia, she shares her learning on 'purposeful learning'. The site archives the whole interview, but also excerpts on 'how does technology help learning', 'how can skills gaps be avoided', 'how adult education institutions change' and 'can upskilling and reskilling fix unemployment'. A good overview and summary of how one country, deals with the challenges within the constrains and opportunities of their social, economic and political affordances.
The Learn Tech Asia site itself is also a useful resource on Asian innovation in the learning technologies area. For example, LMSs like zilearn, developed to be sympathetic to the needs of Asian institutes of learning and learners. The CEO of Kydon group who developed zilearn, provides an opinion piece on the top 10 skills for tomorrow's jobs.
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