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Introduction to MOOCs: avalanche, illusion or augmentation?

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are no strangers to the delivery of online content (e.g. Open Educational Resources, Virtual Learning Environments) but MOOCs have captured the press and public’s interest in a way that few initiatives have in the past and as such have attracted extremes of both praise and skepticism. It is this paper’s aim to provide an overview of the history and types of MOOCs, their global scope, and the associated risks and benefits of their use.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002238/223896e.pdf

Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?

This policy analysis paper explores the implications for the host country population of alternative immigration policies. The two immigration options considered are a policy based on admitting primarily high-skilled workers and another that has the effect of admitting primarily low-skilled workers. The implications for the native-born population for their aggregate level of income, the distribution of their income by skill level, and the size of the income redistribution system are considered.
http://ftp.iza.org/pp28.pdf

ICTs in TVET

Recent trends in ICTs and TVET put emphasis on the innovation strategy for education and training. Attention is given to skills and needs used by modern firms, working population, and also in arts and science education. In TVET there is a tendency to highlight the “learning by doing” approach. Today, managing work in which responsibilities have been distributed to a high degree among the network of workers is a major challenge. Communication between employees and their managers may be based only on virtual contacts. As a consequence, the demand for TVET is increasing, and education and learning are adopting new forms. The challenges of vocational education are quite similar in countries that vary widely in their current economic level of development. Entrepreneurship, which is closely connected with ICTs, is a very important factor in both the global and local economies.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002166/216682e.pdf

Canada. The Transferability of Skills

This brief discusses the transferability of skills across jobs and occupations. Evidence suggests that displaced workers finding new employment in jobs using similar skills experience significantly smaller wage losses than those taking new jobs in occupations that utilize a vastly different set of skills. Workers find their way back to more similar jobs than would occur with random mobility, and they are increasingly finding their way back to more similar jobs in recent years.
http://economics.uwo.ca/chcp/chcp_docs/policybrief4.pdf

Formulating a national policy on skills development

This policy brief looks at why national skills policies matter, what can be achieved by developing a national skills policy, key policy principles and how these can be incorporated in national skills policies as well as the process for policy development and effective implementation of skills policies.
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_emp/—ifp_skills/documents/publication/wcms_167172.pdf

Upgrading Informal Apprenticeship Systems

This policy brief focuses on the opportunities made available in informal apprenticeship systems for improving skill provision in the informal economy to offer young people, especially in developing countries, ways to more productive and decent jobs.
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_emp/—ifp_skills/documents/publication/wcms_167162.pdf

UNESCO Policy Brief. ICTs for new engineering education

With the ubiquitous help of ICT-enabled infrastructures, a new engineering education paradigm should help cultivate talents around the world, so that we may collectively develop a comprehensive and sustainable solution to address the global engineering talent shortage problems.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001936/193683e.pdf

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