Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet November 24, 2020 By Janet Salm Read Time Strada Article Innovation in Wor... Serving the Adult... Adult Learners Career Connection Employers Navigating Education Nondegree Technology Institute for the... ... Long Life Learning offers readers a glimpse into a future where the average working life has no beginning, middle, or end. Contemplating a shift from the educational all-you-can-eat-buffet of college and university to an “as-you-need-it” approach to delivering education, author Michelle Weise explains why and how worker education is overdue for momentous changes. The work leverages the insights Weise and the team at Strada Institute for the Future of Work developed from hundreds of hours listening to innovators and adult learners. Long Life Learning illuminates how our current education system is poorly equipped to educate workers for such a long journey and how we must design a new learner-centered ecosystem to meet the needs of a new generation of workers. Strada Education Network is dedicated to taking the vision and theories within this book and putting them into action by orchestrating stakeholders to behave differently. Through coalitions designed for impact, communities of practice, and local ecosystem development, we can begin to stitch together the existing and burgeoning solutions to better connect career navigation with wraparound supports and advising, more targeted learning pathways — integrated with work — and more direct access to better jobs through fairer and more transparent hiring practices. BUY THE BOOK The better our education system serves adult learners, the better it will serve all learners. Hear about the challenges facing adult learners from their personal stories. “Without hand-wringing about the rise of automation, or finger-pointing at our current systems of education and employment, Long Life Learning advances a vision of the future that puts the needs of workers at the center.” Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO, Futuro Health ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Read an excerpt from Long Life Learning. Learn about the benefits of a learner-centered ecosystem. Group 13 Group 11 Group 12 Janet Salm Managing Director of Research Strada Education Network Learn More In the news from Strada July 29, 2021 Things To Know Now About the Future of Nondegree Credentials Strada Article On Purpose July 14, 2021 How Student Supports Can Reverse Enrollment Declines Strada Article On Purpose June 22, 2021 ‘Concerned, Worried, and Anxious’ — Insights From Recent High School Grads Strada Article Measuring the Val... Pathways with Pur... Pursuing Equity &... 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