{"id":71426,"date":"2020-07-15T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71426"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:31:08","slug":"online-learning-critical-to-the-reskilling-of-america-maggioncalda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/15\/online-learning-critical-to-the-reskilling-of-america-maggioncalda\/","title":{"rendered":"Online learning critical to the &#8216;reskilling&#8217; of America [Maggioncalda]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/education\/505983-online-learning-critical-to-the-reskilling-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Online learning critical to the &#8216;reskilling&#8217; of America<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from thehill.com by Jeff Maggioncalda<br \/>\n<em>[From DSC: As Jeff is the CEO of Coursera, a worldwide online learning platform, it causes this to be an opinion piece for sure; but his points are nevertheless, very valid in my opinion as well.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">America is facing the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/28\/economy\/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One in four American workers<\/a>\u00a0has filed for unemployment insurance since March. In less than four months, over 44 million American workers have watched their jobs be put on hold or disappear entirely \u2014 and that number is expected to grow in the coming months.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nPolicymakers should use this opportunity to launch a large-scale effort to help Americans develop the skills to do the jobs of the future.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAmidst this pandemic, Americans require a solution that meets them where they are, offering a safe learning environment during social distancing while preparing them for in-demand jobs now and post-COVID.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOnline learning helps workers develop skills at an unparalleled speed and scale, as seen with the recent experience of training tens of thousands of contact tracers in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/thelivingclassroom\/index.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69072 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LearningFromTheLivingClassRoom-DanielChristian-SM-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"Learning from the living class room\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LearningFromTheLivingClassRoom-DanielChristian-SM-1024x655.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LearningFromTheLivingClassRoom-DanielChristian-SM-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LearningFromTheLivingClassRoom-DanielChristian-SM-768x491.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/LearningFromTheLivingClassRoom-DanielChristian-SM.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online learning critical to the &#8216;reskilling&#8217; of America &#8212; from thehill.com by Jeff Maggioncalda [From DSC: As Jeff is the CEO of Coursera, a worldwide online learning platform, it causes this to be an opinion piece for sure; but his points are nevertheless, very valid in my opinion as well.] Excerpts: America is facing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,174,86,112,200,57,324,72,8,286,9,143,346,343,32,37,3,391,419,180,482,124,55,102,17,7,838,510,15,505,199,239,62,133,219,309,436,480,310,20,212,40,321,367,11,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-career-development","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-curriculum","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-audio","category-digital-learning","category-digital-video","category-disruption","category-distance-education","category-education","category-education-technology","category-future","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-internet","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-online-tutoring","category-platforms","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-surviving","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71428,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71426\/revisions\/71428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}