The document discusses the evolving landscape of vocational and professional skills education, highlighting the overflow of information and the confusion between knowledge and understanding. It emphasizes the need for innovative educational tools and collaborative approaches to enhance learning experiences, particularly through online platforms. Additionally, it underscores the importance of adapting to the changing language of learning and providing evidence-based assessments to meet employers' demands for relevant skills.

1. Enabling Vocational And Professional Skills
DAN SANDHU

2. Classroom 1900 Classroom 2015
USUAL COMPARISON

3. VOCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL

4. We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts
of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in the arguments about
the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have
sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much,
of being inundated with information.
KNOWLEDGE vs LEARNING
- Malcolm Gladwell
We have come to confuse information
with understanding.

5. KNOWLEDGE
COLLABORATIVE SKILLS
CREATIVITY
PROBLEM SOLVING
KNOWLEDGE ALONE IS NOT SUFFICENT
“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form”
Vladimir Nabokov
Or .. how to get people to ask good questions
Was needed
so was sought
Is needed and
is sought

6. It's about understanding the tools they have got available and how to
utilise them.
When we are asking a question where we know there's access to the
internet, we could ask a different question - it's about the
interpretation, the discussion.
Its more.
Mark Dawe,
OCR, Cambridge Assessment

7. COST OF COMPLACENCY

8. THE TIME IS RIGHT
£2.8
TRILLION
Education
spend 2014
84%
INCREASE
In education
spend 2014
Stagnant growth
in standards
E-LEARNING
Expenditure to grow at
23.0% p.a. to £166bn by
2017
INVESTMENT
80% attrition in Massive
Open Online Courses
(MOOCs)

9. •Employers want the means of ensuring their workforce has the right skill set
•Institutions need to more reliably assesscreative and collaboration skills
•Universities need to provide better learner experience
•MOOC’s need to improve learner engagement and therefore retention
•Governments need evidence they are getting value for their educational spend
PERFECT STORM

10. THE MODERN LEARNER
Empowered, Accessible Work Related Learning
of workforce
work remotely
of global
workforce is
mobile
30% 37%
50-60% via
online
courses
70% via
search engine
ON-DEMAND UNTETHERED COLLABORATIVE EMPOWERED
80%
of workforce
learning
happens on
the job
55%
at Google
of training
delivered by
2,000+ peer
learners
2 ½
to 5
Half life
(in years) of
many
professional
skills
62%
of IT
professionals
have paid for
training
themselves

11. THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS
CHANGING

12. THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS
CHANGING

13. THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS
CHANGING

14. SCALABLE
DEVICE
AGNOSTIC
PRODUCTS
ACADEMICALLY
VALIDATED &
OPERATIONAL
CURRICULUM
AGNOSTIC
C OUNTRY
AGNOSTIC
VOCATIONALLY
FOCUSED
WHAT ED TECH TOOLS ARE NEEDED TO
ENABLE VOCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

15. A Brief Introduction

16. LEARNING PRODUCT SUITE
CAPTURE
Capture digital
evidence of student
knowledge, capability
and progress
ANNOTATE
Annotate any digital
file and reference
rubric
COLLABORATE
Peer to peer
assessment
MEASURE
Game-changing
alternative to marking
that is reliable for
measuring a wide-range
of learner work
MANAGE
E-portfolio to
supportassessment
for learning
Uncomplicated technologydesigned for learners to excel.
Our product has been used bysome of the world’s most trusted education brands to provide more
stimulating, blended learning activities and a deeper understanding of learners’acquisition of skills.

17. SOCIAL LEARNING
TEAM UP
ENGAGE
ATTAIN
Capture andpresentevidenceina storyboard-styledigitalportfolio
usingin-builtdigitalfeaturesorlearners’ownmobiledevices.

18. Market leaders of online assessment products for awarding bodies, English
language training and educational institutions.
OUR CLIENTS

19. Digital Assess is changing learning for the better and making evidence based
assessment more reliable, easier to validate,
more authentic and simpler to manage.
Gain A Deeper Insight

20. DAN SANDHU
DAN.SANDHU@DIGITALASSESS.COM
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