{"id":71590,"date":"2020-07-27T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71590"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T14:01:17","slug":"the-different-learning-objectives-los-of-the-corporate-world-vs-the-world-of-higher-education-who-pays-the-price-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/07\/27\/the-different-learning-objectives-los-of-the-corporate-world-vs-the-world-of-higher-education-who-pays-the-price-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"The different Learning Objectives (LO&#8217;s) of the corporate world vs. the world of higher education: Who pays the price? [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><small><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">From DSC: I&#8217;d like to thank Ryan Craig for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapletter.com\/letter_43.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mentioning several interesting articles and thoughts in a recent Gap Letter<\/a>. At least 2-3 of the articles he mentioned got me to thinking&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/with-a-degree-no-longer-enough-job-candidates-are-told-to-prove-their-skills-in-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus<br \/>\n<em>Instead of relying on credentials, more employers want applicants to show their stuff<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Among the many frustrations ahead for millions of Americans thrown out of work by the pandemic is one that may surprise them: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>To get a new job, it\u2019s increasingly likely they will have to take a test.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward \u201cpre-hiring assessments\u201d \u2014 already under way before Covid-19 \u2014 is getting a huge new push.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Skeptical that university degrees are the best measure of whether candidates have the skills they need, employers were already looking for ways that applicants could prove it \u2014 including in fields where that was not previously required.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s like try before you buy,\u201d said Price.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/documents\/Different%20LOs%20Daniel%20Christian.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-71622 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Different-LOs-DanielChristian-7-26-20.jpg\" alt=\"It's very possible that students will have to take assessments to get that job -- assessments that are based on a completely different set of Learning Objectives (LO's).\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Different-LOs-DanielChristian-7-26-20.jpg 792w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Different-LOs-DanielChristian-7-26-20-150x133.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Different-LOs-DanielChristian-7-26-20-768x679.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/documents\/Different%20LOs%20Daniel%20Christian.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF version here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/315500\/college-alumni-room-job-skill-improvement.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>College Alumni See Room for Job-Skill Improvement<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from news.gallup.com by John Clark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">From DSC:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There is a huge misalignment between the Learning Objectives (LO\u2019s) that the corporate world supports \u2014 and ultimately hires by \u2014 as compared to the LO\u2019s that faculty, provosts, &amp; presidents support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">This happened to me a while back when I was looking for a new job. I traveled to another city &#8212; upon the company&#8217;s request (though they never lifted a finger to help me with the travel-related expenses). Plus, I dedicated the time and got my hopes up, yet again, in getting the job. But the test they gave me (before I even saw a human being) blew me away! It was meant for PhD-level candidates in Computer Science, Programming, or Statistics. It was ridiculously hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The article above got me to thinking&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Higher education increasingly puts a guerrilla of debt on many students\u2019 backs, which adds to the dispiriting struggle to overcome these kinds of tests. Also, the onslaught of the Applicant Tracking Systems that students have to conquer (in order to obtain that sought after interview) further adds to this dispiriting struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">How can we achieve better alignment here? Students are getting left holding the bag&#8230;a situation that will likely not last much longer. If higher ed doesn&#8217;t address this situation, we <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">shouldn\u2019t be surprised to see a mass exodus when effective alternatives pick up steam even further. Last call to address this now before the exodus occurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Along these lines see:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/higher-ed-gamma\/better-connecting-college-and-career#.XxrF3TU3Wrg.linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Better Connecting College and Career<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from insidehighered.com by Steven Mintz<br \/>\n<em>How to improve career readiness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"center-wrapper hold-stickers\">\n<div class=\"panel-panel panel-col-first\">\n<div class=\"inside\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">How can colleges best prepare students for careers in a volatile, uncertain environment? This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed2work.com\/post\/a-new-model-for-career-exploration-in-a-volatile-uncertain-complex-ambiguous-vuca-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is the question recently asked by Marie Cini<\/a>, the former provost at University of Maryland University College and former president of CAEL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Career service offices, she observes, are first and foremost job search centers: reviewing r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, publicizing job openings and arranging interviews. What they are not about, for the most part, is career preparation, a longer and more intense process involving self-analysis, skills building and genuine insights into the job market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I&#8217;d like to thank Ryan Craig for mentioning several interesting articles and thoughts in a recent Gap Letter. At least 2-3 of the articles he mentioned got me to thinking&#8230; With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests &#8212; from hechingerreport.org by Jon Marcus Instead [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,356,387,61,174,86,127,115,433,302,260,112,200,57,823,324,159,72,71,37,36,35,178,3,419,119,482,838,510,480,310,66,212,321,214,367,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communications","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-credentialing","category-curriculum","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faculty-staff","category-future","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590","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=71590"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71638,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71590\/revisions\/71638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}