What Living Longer Means for the Future of Work and Education With Dr. Michelle Weise

D2L's Teach & Learn

This is how a typical work life unfolds: we get an education, then a job and after 40 years or so at that job, we retire. But experts say, that won’t work in the future. (Pardon the pun).

People are living longer, healthier lives. Now, before you start planning an extra, extra-long retirement, consider that the longer you live, the longer you’ll need to stay in the workforce. And the more important life-long learning will become. People will need to be able to work while gaining the competencies and skills required for jobs that don’t exist yet.

But how can we make education and work, work with minimal disruption? How can we plan for a work life that will span nearly a century? What can we make our careers future-proof? Our next guest says we need to create systems today that can better support us in the future.

Teach & Learn host Dr. Cristi Ford and guest Dr. Michelle Weise unpack what a longer life means for the future of work and life-long learning. In this episode they touch on:

• What the future of work might look like
• What systems need to be designed to enable future workers to upskill with minimal disruption
• Who should pay in time and money to educate the workforce: The employer or the individual?
• What we can do today to future-proof our careers

To learn more about visit MichelleWeise.com and check out her blog, Skilling Me Softly. And order your copy of Long-Life Learning today.

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Chapter

1. An intro to the theme and guest: Long life learning with Dr. Michelle Weise (00:00:00)

2. Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet (00:00:50)

3. The concept and the systems needed to support long life learning (00:04:10)

4. Funding models  (00:11:40)

5. Barriers and the responsibility of the employer (00:18:50)

6. Skills of the future (00:21:55)

7. Problem solvers of the future (00:25:25)

8. Michelle’s four tips to future-proof your career (00:27:27)

9. Call to action  (00:31:12)