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Daphne Kis, Chief Executive Officer, WorldQuant University suggest, Lifelong learning is more important than ever, but we need to change how we approach it to achieve real, lasting success.
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- Three fundamental rules can be followed in order to empower a generation of lifelong learners.
- High-trust education institutions and workplaces are being equated with high performance.
- We need to tap into our emotions to replicate in remote environments what we miss from the office, as opposed to pining over the space itself.
The prevailing discourse on upskilling focuses too heavily on the skills side, and not enough on the learners.
Skills themselves do not result in persistence, nor do they result in lifelong learning. One McKinsey study of top executives found that only 16% felt “very prepared” to address the skills gap in their businesses...
Of course, since COVID-19, we are tasked with not only upskilling millions of workers for the reopening of the global economy, but doing so remotely.
And yet, we have been grappling with this issue at WorldQuant University for years because we were online-only long before the coronavirus pandemic struck. We have long known that the online learning industry has been plagued by high abandonment and drop-off rates since its inception, and have therefore found solutions along the way.
The big lesson is that we need to prioritize making lifelong learning enticing. But how, exactly, should we best go about that? Here are 3 ways:
Source: World Economic Forum
