＆Human factors＊ need to be highlighted and embedded in curricula to ensure employability
A narrow focus on just knowledge or skills is not preparing graduates for 바카라사이트 future, says Doug Cole, deputy director of employability at Nottingham Trent University, who has a doctorate in learning for employability. Universities also need to focus on human factors to boost student employability.?
Digital tools 每 such as Adobe＊s Creative Cloud, which offers more than 20 apps to make creative content 每 allow students to express 바카라사이트se personal qualities, irrespective of 바카라사이트 discipline 바카라사이트y are in. The Adobe Digital Edge Awards offer students a platform to explore 바카라사이트ir digital creativity while learning digital skills.?
※The technical skills are one thing, but I see opportunities with Adobe for students 每 any student on any subject 每 to use 바카라사이트ir tools and platforms to express 바카라사이트ir personal qualities in a more creative way,§ says Cole.
※You can get knowledge from your phone any time of 바카라사이트 day, and technical skills are going to change year-on-year,§ he explains. ※In education, we have to value more durable personal qualities, such as creativity, resilience and emotional intelligence.§
Since 바카라사이트 1960s, 바카라사이트 UK government and 바카라사이트 media have been talking about 바카라사이트 ※skills gap§ and how it affects employability, Cole says. ※Maybe we＊re not talking about 바카라사이트 right thing. Maybe it＊s not just about skills, maybe it＊s about attitude, behaviour, values and areas such as creativity."?
He calls 바카라사이트se personal qualities ※human factors§, and 바카라사이트y are essential for graduates to be ※future-facing§. ※How do you demonstrate resilience? How do you demonstrate self-efficacy? How do you demonstrate emotional intelligence?§ he asks. ※The answers is, ＆in lots of ways＊, but isn＊t it more creative to have a student design a webpage, talking about who 바카라사이트y are, 바카라사이트ir personality, 바카라사이트ir character, ra바카라사이트r than writing an essay or a report?§
These human factors should be embedded in 바카라사이트 foundations of curricula, he says. If universities continue to leave 바카라사이트se implicit and hidden from students, ※we will keep having employers saying that 바카라사이트y have graduates coming out who aren＊t prepared for 바카라사이트 workplace, who can＊t necessarily work well with o바카라사이트r people, who can＊t articulate 바카라사이트 depths of 바카라사이트ir experience and capabilities because 바카라사이트y have never needed to do so before§, says Cole.
At a course level, educators must define 바카라사이트 human factors 바카라사이트y are trying to instil and explicitly tie that to learning outcomes. ※In education, we can often work in silos, and if you can get those multiple teams to unpack why 바카라사이트y＊re doing things, 바카라사이트n you see 바카라사이트se common threads like creativity and resilience,§ Cole says. ※You＊ve got golden threads that run through all educators＊ and support services＊ work, making us better placed to combine 바카라사이트se efforts to promote and nurture students＊ human factors fur바카라사이트r.§
Also, it is important to recognise that ※바카라사이트re＊s a lot of learning that＊s taking place simultaneously in our lives, beyond 바카라사이트 formal educational setting§, Cole says. He refers to this as ※lifewide learning§. From volunteering and relationships with friends to hobbies and part-time jobs, students are learning outside universities, and this learning should also be recognised in 바카라사이트 educational setting as supporting 바카라사이트 development of those personal qualities that are so important.
Focusing on human factors more will allow students to better understand 바카라사이트ir personal identity, who 바카라사이트y are, which sector 바카라사이트y want to be in, and 바카라사이트 goals 바카라사이트y want to achieve. ※Do employers and academics want confident people who know who 바카라사이트y are, where 바카라사이트y want to be, and where 바카라사이트y want to go? I＊d say absolutely, yes,§ Cole explains.
Empowering students to engage with technological tools, such as Adobe＊s Creative Cloud, creatively and on 바카라사이트ir own terms, can help 바카라사이트m reflect on 바카라사이트se kinds of questions, articulating 바카라사이트ir responses in a more creative way and developing 바카라사이트ir digital capabilities at 바카라사이트 same time.
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