The CREALOGIX Digital Learning Education Forum was held for the twelfth time. During the specialist conference on 25 September 2018, around 300 participants were given an insight into the next generation of vocational education and training. Digital Learning offers essential innovative strength for future-oriented companies.
Various studies predict that automation will transform many of the approximately 440 million jobs worldwide and create new job profiles. Participants in CREALOIGX Digital Learning's "The Skilling Challenge" conference drove one question into the Trafo-Hallen in Baden: What will the world of work look like in 20 or 30 years' time?
Training and continuing education as transformation drivers
Manu Kapur, Professor of Learning Sciences at ETH Zurich, showed how education shapes the future of work: "The pace has increased enormously as a result of digital transformation. This confronts companies with questions such as: what business model will I pursue tomorrow and how will I develop my employees in a successful direction? People are adaptable. Among other things, they learn through failure. This mentality is important in an evolving world." It is not always possible to estimate what effect the next innovation will have on everyday life. This presents each individual, but also business and politics, with new challenges. Josef Widmer, Deputy Director of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SBFI, perceives this in his field. The SBFI plays an important role at the interface between business and politics: "We are in constant dialogue with business actors and listen to their needs. We improve the digital skills of children and young people and provide them with the necessary tools at an early stage. We want to ensure that Switzerland continues to have one of the best educational landscapes in the world", says Widmer.
Modern technologies accompany lifelong learning
After the keynote lecture, the participants discussed in the "The Skilling Challenge" forum which skills are needed to master new occupations that do not yet exist. Young people but also employees face challenges. Kapur is convinced that precisely these are beneficial to development: If a task is more difficult than what a person can solve, he will have two experiences: He will fail and still make progress. Today, this progress is no longer completed with compulsory schooling and apprenticeship.
Daniel Stoller-Schai, Head of Sales & Marketing at CREALOGIX Digital Learning, says:
"Lifelong learning plays an important role. Modular learning environments allow personalised learning using competence profiles and intelligent algorithms (artificial intelligence). The Swiss Learning Hub is our approach to making this possible and thus successfully tackling the 'Skilling Challenge'.”
That learning is always a pleasure was demonstrated by the award-winning Swiss comedian Claudio Zuccolini, who rounded off the event with his show.
