{"id":99312,"date":"2026-10-08T08:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99312"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:18:42","slug":"want-to-close-the-skills-gap-bring-learning-closer-to-work-awwad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/10\/08\/want-to-close-the-skills-gap-bring-learning-closer-to-work-awwad\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Close the Skills Gap? Bring Learning Closer to Work [Awwad]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campustechnology.com\/articles\/2026\/09\/15\/want-to-close-the-skills-gap-bring-learning-closer-to-work.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Want to Close the Skills Gap? Bring Learning Closer to Work<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Elise Awwad<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The skills gap is a workforce access problem as much as a talent problem: Employers broadly plan to upskill workers, yet many employees still lack sufficient time or access to AI training.<\/li>\n<li>AI fluency compounds where workers already have access: Employees who use AI regularly build confidence and capability, while those whose jobs keep them farther from the technology risk falling further behind.<\/li>\n<li>Upskilling works better when learning is integrated with work: Employers and higher education should create pathways that combine technical and durable skills with on-the-job application, rather than treating reskilling as an individual responsibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The skills employers say they cannot find are increasingly the skills they expect employees and candidates to arrive with, fully formed, at their own expense.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nUpskilling or reskilling is often framed as an individual responsibility: a matter of initiative, of staying current. But if employers need these skills, they have a stake in making sure workers have a realistic way to develop them.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to Close the Skills Gap? Bring Learning Closer to Work &#8212; from campustechnology.com by Elise Awwad Key Takeaways The skills gap is a workforce access problem as much as a talent problem: Employers broadly plan to upskill workers, yet many employees still lack sufficient time or access to AI training. AI fluency compounds where [&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":[356,387,174,127,115,498,302,112,200,71,3,419,119,7,838,863,486,436,855,66,118,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-career-development","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-pathways","category-real-world-assignments","category-reinvent","category-skills","category-student-related","category-training-corporate-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99312","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=99312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99315,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99312\/revisions\/99315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}