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Enric Serradell Lopez

Can You Actually Learn Soft Skills Online? - HDS - 1 views

  • People’s behavior can change, says Heide Abelli, senior vice president at Skillsoft, a global training firm. She believes that for soft skills training to be effective, it needs to include three key elements—learning, introspection, and practice.
  • Soft skills need repeated practice,
  • Online learning embraces these modern patterns of nonlinear consumption,
Enric Serradell Lopez

Education & Disruption: How Startups Can Help Universities | PocketConfidant AI - 1 views

  • The concept of lifelong learning is today a pre-requisite for employability and wellbeing. As stated in UNESCO’s World Education Forum 2015 strategy, “Every person, at every stage of their life should have lifelong learning opportunities to acquire the knowledge and skills they need to fulfill their aspirations and contribute to their societies.”
Enric Serradell Lopez

AI Will Change Your Job. Can You Change Along With It? - The Washington Post - 1 views

  • They also got a promise that generative AI will not be credited as an author.
  • And studios cannot use AI to write or rewrite literary material. At the same time, authors can choose to use AI as a tool.  
  • The US (and the world) has more jobs today than it did at the start of the 21st century. At the same time, plenty of occupations have declined due to technology. In 2023, there were only 32,000 people working in word processing and typing occupations, a sharp fall from 282,000 in 2000. Similar trends were seen in larger occupations such as sales and office workers, a category that has shed 6 million jobs since the start of the century.
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  • Is a college degree still worth it?
  • In 1980, college grads earned only about 40% more than those without a college degree. Today they earn roughly 80% more.
  • There is already research showing that writing quality and speed increases when people are trained to use ChatGPT effectively.
  • To be certain, there are big unknowns. Universities need to make sure that students get skills that AI can complement rather than replace.
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