- $99.95
Knowledge Work: Building a Ladder of Opportunity
- Course
- 21 Lessons
- 365-day access
Today, knowledge and skills are the only route to personal and community prosperity. But unless you connect education to employment, you are exporting your best talent to some other place. A local ladder of opportunity can make all the difference. Learn how to build one in this one-hour, self-paced online course, which shares the best practices of communities in Canada, Europe and the US. 12-month subscription. FREE to ICF members with member code. EDAC members receive 5 points toward Ec.D. certification by completing seven courses.
What you will learn
- Appreciate why you need to build a skilled workforce to benefit from an economy where education determines personal prosperity.
- Analyze how education can contribute to economic development and economic development priorities can enrich education.
- Learn how to engage primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities with local government and employers to turn education into a ladder of opportunity.
- Evaluate innovative programs for lifetime learning at the high school, college and university level in multiple countries and learn from their examples.
- Analyze the educational assets and partnerships in your community and identify missing parts of the ladder of opportunity.
Course 4
Developing your workforce today takes creative collaboration among educators, employers and government to build a ladder of opportunity stretching from school to work. Course 4 explains how communities have built this collaboration and achieved extraordinary results. Free to ICF members with member code. EDAC members receive discounts on courses and 5 points toward Ec.D. certification for completing all seven.