Presentations PST180
The Future of Learning and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Skilling and Upskilling
Date Monday, Nov 30 Time – Room
This brief presentation addresses the question the Future is here: Are You Ready. It will discuss the role of learning as an accelerator for international development and then discuss the massive scale of the challenge of skilling and reskilling to meet the new future ushered in by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It then discussion the digital learning opportunity and design decisions based on this.
Sheila Jagannathan
Global Head, Digital Learning & Capacity Building, The World Bank, USA
Sheila Jagannathan is a lifelong learner and Head of the Open Learning Campus at the World Bank in Washington DC.
She serves as the organization’s focal point on digital learning and issues at the intersection of technology use and education in emerging countries.
She is an internationally recognized thought leader, advisor, author and a forward-thinking senior education leader with over 35 years of experience in leading capacity building, knowledge management, data, social learning and transformation change across public and private organizations.
Sheila also provides policy advice and technical assistance to World Bank country-level capacity building programs (both government and training centers of excellence seeking to introduce technologies in their educational systems) in, East Asia, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Africa and South Asia.
Please follow this link for information on her book ‘Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development - Upskilling, Data Analytics, and Educational Technologies Close the Skills Gap, published in June 2021.
Links
http://www.olc.worldbank.orghttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-jaga…