Business Education Thriving in Challenging Times

Sandra Poirier, EdD, CFCS, LD/N

Middle Tennessee State University

Agenda

• What are some of the challenges in creating a sustainable workforce?

• What are the key components of a 21st Century Learning Environment?

• New sustainable initiatives on the horizon for business

Education for Business Sustainability

sustainable solutions through business education

What are some Global Challenges in Creating a Sustainable Workforce?

Our Changing World

"There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction."  Winston Churchill

Constant change.Never changes.

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A new era of production has begun. Its principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has

been brought about by the combination of the computer and the automated self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost

unlimited productive capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social

system to meet its own needs.The Ad Hoc Committee on The Triple Revolution, “The Triple Revolution,” April

6, 1964.

Computers have changed the jobs that are available, the skills those jobs require, and the wages the jobs

pay.

Skills Gap

Current Education Systems are facingUnprecedented Challenges

• Globalization and Learning

• Technological Change Demands More and Different Skills Globalization and Learning

• The Need for a New Curriculum

• Demographic Changes is Driving a Renewed Need for Lifelong Learning

• An Endless Demand for New Forms of Learning

• A Pressing Need for Action

Global INTERNET Use by Region

Asia Americas Europe Africa Oceania

Asia 48.2 %

Americas21.8%

Europe 19%

Africa9.8%

Source: Internet Live Stats (elaboration of data by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and United Nations Population Division

Trends that have changed the demands

of work and life

• Automation

• Globalization

• Workplace Change

• Policies Increasing Personal Responsibility

Five Broad Types of Workplace Tasks

• Solving Unstructured Problems

• Working with New Information

• Routine Cognitive Tasks

• Routine Manual Tasks

• Non-Routine Manual Tasks

The jobs growing in number share two general skills that computers cannot replicate—expert

thinking and complex

communication.

New Division of Labor

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Job Tasks Are Changing Across the Economy

Robots

Education for Business Sustainability

sustainable solutions through business education

What are the Key Components of a 21St Century Education?

The World of Today for Our Students

STUDENTS

A Science and Knowledge Economy

A Resource Challenged Economy

A Globally Interdependent

Economy

A Demographically Diverse Economy

An Innovation Driven Economy

INNOVATION

• What is desirable to users?

• What is possible with technology

• What is viable in the marketplace

INNOVATION

Effective teachers

Quality curriculum

STUDENTS Integrated

wraparound support

Engaged families

Personalized learning

Education for Business Sustainability

sustainable solutions through business education

New Sustainable Initiatives on the Horizon for Business Education

The Developing Redefinition of Higher Education Should Provide Benefits that will Continue for Decades into the Future

• We will have to adapt as information technology advances.

• Continually re-evaluate what is inherently different between human and computer learning, and what is practical and useful to students for the long haul.

• And we will have to face the reality that the “art of living in the world” requires at least some elements of a business education.

Jobs of the Future.com

• Preparing for College and Career

• Earning Post Secondary Credentials

• Advancing Careers and Economic Growth

LEARNING THAT WORKS FOR YOUR FUTURE

http://www.uschamberfoundation.org/talent-pipeline-management

Career Pathways

What is Global Competence?

• Knowledge of other world regions, cultures, and global/international issues

• Skills in communicating in languages other than English, working in global or cross-cultural environments, and using information from different sources around the world

• Values/perspectives of respect and concern for other cultures and peoples

Why Global Competence?

• Globalization is driving the demand for a globally competent workforce

• One in five jobs is tied to international trade

• Business growth will be in overseas markets

Global Competencies: 21st Century Skills Applied to the World

• Identify an issue, generate questions, and explain its significance.

• Use variety of languages, sources and media to identify and weigh relevant evidence.

• Analyze, integrate, and synthesize evidence to construct coherent responses.

• Develop argument based on compelling evidence and draws defensible conclusions. Investigate the World

Students investigate the world beyond their immediate environment.

• Recognize and express their own perspective and identify influences on that perspective.

• Examine others’ perspectives and identify what influenced them.

• Explain the impact of cultural interactions.

• Articulate how differential access to knowledge, technology, and resources affects quality of life and

Recognize Perspectives perspectives.

Students recognize their own and others’ perspectives.

Understand the World through Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Study

• Identify and create opportunities for personal or collaborative action to improve conditions.

• Assess options and plan actions based on evidence and potential for impact.

• Act, personally or collaboratively, in creative and ethical ways to contribute to improvement, and assess impact of actions taken.

• Reflect on capacity to advocate for and contribute to improvement.

Take Action Students translate their ideas into appropriate actions to improve conditions.

Communicate Ideas Students communicate their ideas effectively with diverse audiences. • Recognize and express how

diverse audiences perceive meaning and how that affects communication.

• Listen to and communicate effectively with diverse people.

• Select and use appropriate technology and media to communicate with diverse audiences.

• Reflect on how effective communication affects understanding and collaboration in an interdependent world.

West, C. (2012). Toward Globally Competenent Pedagogy. Washington, DC: Association of International Education.

Apprenticeships are the Path to a Global Economy

Key Elements of Modern Quality Apprenticeship Systems

• Social Dialogue

• Roles and Responsibilities

• Financing

• Legislation

Certifications for Ed-Tech ProfessionalsPromote Lifelong Learning

http://www.leadingedgecertification.org/

NanoDegrees by Google

• Stand out with tech skills that matter.

• Learn by doing projects employers value.

• Study smart without leaving your current job.

• https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree

Udacity’s Nanodegree

Program

Front-End Web Developer

Android Developer

Data Analyst

iSO Developer

Full-Stack Developer

Introduction to Programming

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...most individuals will need to acquire new knowledge and skills over their work lives

in order to earn a good living in a changing work world.

Dancing with Robots: Human Skills for Computerized Work by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane

Lifelong Learning

Countries are working together to retool and retrain their citizens for work and life

changes in the future. Online and hybrid courses are very

popular.

http://www.m-house.eu/

Goals of Sustainable Development in

Business Education

•Lead to changes in work, lifestyle and consumption patterns.•Encourage people to consider alternatives.

•Enable people to take part in decision making.

•Enable people to find information.

•Give people opportunities to participate.

•Encourage principles leading to a fairer society.

•Help people to understand the links between issues

Education should achieve changes in the community which:

Sustainable Education Should Help Students Towards the Following Objectives:

Knowledge Values Skills

How natural processes work

A commitment to all living things

Co-operative working

How our lives connect with others

A desire for social justiceEmpathy and awareness

Critical thinkingNegotiation

The planet earth as a finite resource

Understanding of quality of life

Rights and responsibilities

Reasoned debateProblem solving

How to make decisions

How we provide for human needs

A global perspective and loyalty to the world

community

Creative ability Research & data

handlingCommunication

skills

Dr. Sandra Poirier, ProfessorMiddle Tennessee State University

Tennessee, USA

References

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• Axmann, M. (2013, June 3). International Labor Organization . Retrieved from Apprenticeships Systems -what do we know?: http://www.ilo.org/beirut/media-centre/fs/WCMS_214722/lang--en/index.htm

• Carnevale, A. P., Rose, S. J., & Hanson, A. R. (2012). Certificates: Gateway to Gainful Employment and College Degrees. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown Uiversity, Center on Education and the Workforce.

• Levy, F., & Murnane, R. J. (2004). The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the New Job Market. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

• Murnane, R. J., & Levy, F. (2013, March 20). Dancing with Robots: Human Skills for Computerized Work. Retrieved from Third Way Fresh Thinking: http://content.thirdway.org/publications/714/Dancing-With-Robots.pdf

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