Learning and Education

Learning workforce skills through the incorporation of novel class structures beyond the traditional classroom

The word ‘structure’ includes things like;

• how grades are awarded
• what types of assessments are used
• how learning new material happens
• how students interact with each other in the class
• how the teacher delivers material
• how textbooks are used
• tools that are used in the course
• etc.

Job Specific Vs. Job General Skills

• Focus: What are the things employers want students to have in their skills bag that school isn’t providing?
• Ignore: The topics in the course around the specific major (e.g., Stat methods for statistics majors, biology principles for biology majors) don’t need to be discussed - only as they might relate to what you discover from the employer interviews.

Who are our clients?

• Primary: Potential employers of recently graduated students.
• Secondary: The students upon which the ‘novel class structures’ are applied.

  Other thoughts

• You could pick one degree to help your team focus.
• You could think about elements of the course that promote enduring career learning.
• You could have different sets of materials incorporated into multiple classes compared to having one class.

Deliverables

Your primary deliverables include;

• 1-2 Pages of quotes with references to your workforce sources.
• 3-Minute pitch for funding to make a prototype.
• Justify you have good ‘thick’ data.
• Justify that you have a good understanding of the problem.
• Justify your proposed plan.