Education is valuable. Students come from all age groups now. Both the labour market and the world of education are actively discussing adult learning, employers often use the phrase “looking for skills” and people are more confident when it comes to changing careers. OSKA’s workforce and skills forecasts suggest that in the future, workers need to be prepared for continuous self-improvement.
At the Qualifications Authority’s international conference, we invite you to pause for a moment, take a hard look into the boom of lifelong learning and consider some critical questions. Why are we constantly learning and developing, and what purpose does it serve? Where can a person get support in making life-changing decisions? How should skills be assessed?
Keynote speech by Matt Sigelman: “Innovation and Lifelong Learning In The Human Economy”
Discussion panel “Giant in PISA, tiny in the global economy – Estonia’s opportunities to grow bigger through skills”
Matt Sigelman, Ede Schank Tamkivi, Eliana Carranza
Discussion panel “How do skills systems support lifelong learning?”
Ave Ungro, Petter Nygård, Clarissa Vieira, Mike Sanders
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Discussion panel “What kind of skills can be used to tame AI?”
Veronika Kalmus, Sundeep Bhandari, Tanel Mällo
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Keynote speech by Johanna Rämö: “Learning for yourself, not for the teacher”
Discussion panel “How to design a good assessment of skills?”
Marin Johnson, Miyako Ikeda, Kyle Albert
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Discussion panel “How does self-assessment support the learning of skills?”
Johanna Rämö, Charlie Moreno Romero, Maddalena Taras
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Our people: Leo
Leo is quite an ordinary career shifter who has already worked in 32 different jobs. At the conference this spirited and determined man boldly shared his efforts to find the right profession. Of course, Leo is a fictional character, but we’re rooting for him!
Who said there are strict boundaries between occupations? Maybe the skills needed in one occupation can be quite useful in another? See how Leo integrates different skills in language learning and cooking.
Artificial intelligence doesn’t replace humans but offers unlimited possibilities for empowering human skills. See how Leo uses AI to juggle multiple professions in the digital world simultaneously.
Well-designed assessments make learning visible to the learner, highlighting relevant knowledge converted into skills. See how Leo visits Estonia’s first skills assessor.
Self-assessment helps give meaning to learning and makes the scope of your knowledge and skills clearer. But how to avoid seeing things through a warped lens? See how Leo develops his self-assessment skills.
The Skills Compass is an integrated system for describing, forecasting, and recognizing skills, which helps navigate dozens of job sectors, hundreds of professions, and thousands of skills, enabling more informed career decisions. See how Leo makes sense of it all.