Group items tagged

The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project partnered with Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center to ask 2,558 experts to make predictions about the state of digital life by the year 2025. This is the first report of eight which will canvass hundreds of experts about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, the "Internet of things," and net neutrality.

HI-TEC is a national conference on advanced technological education where secondary and postsecondary educators, counselors, industry professionals, trade organizations, and technicians can update their knowledge and skills. Charged with Educating America's Technical Workforce, the event focuses on the preparation needed by the existing and future workforce for companies in the high-tech sectors that drive our nation's economy.

The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce is an independent, nonprofit research and policy institute affiliated with the Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy that studies the link between education, career qualifications, and workforce demands. Core Research: The Center conducts research in three core areas with the goal of better aligning education and training with workforce and labor market demand: jobs, skills, and people. ■ JOBS: Our first research focus is on the historic and future labor market supply and labor market demand for education, with secondary interest in occupation and industrial clusters at the national and sub-national levels. ■ SKILLS: Our second research focus is on connecting 21st Century competencies with education, training, and applied learning pathways. ■ PEOPLE: Our third research focus is on identifying the effect of changing job requirements and skill demand on students and the current workforce, with a focus on varying degrees of access and success by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Public Policy The Center seeks to inform and educate federal, state, and local policymakers and stakeholders on ways to better align education and training with labor market demand and qualifications. It also seeks to create tools that enable decision makers to access and customize the data to allow for national, state, and sub-state analysis.

Modern state of the art throughout the world of tech ranges across many disciplines, including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, drones, and even biotechnology. How do you know where to start? The following are a few examples of the sort of tech jobs you can expect to see within the next 5 to 10 years if advancements continue along the paths they are going

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

Positively Minnesota, Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)

iSEEK career profiles & occupational emploment statistics (OES).

Less than 1% of women going to college plan to major in computer science, according to the American Association of University Women. Those are bleak numbers. What will prompt more women to get into coding? The first step: paying teachers to recruit girls to take coding classes.

The Transformative Change Initiative (TCI) and Skills for America's Future at the Aspen Institute hosted an event focused on the evaluation of employer engagement under TAACCCT.