Building a Digital Workforce: Confronting the Crisis.

Institution	National Policy Association, Washington, DC.
Titel	Building a Digital Workforce: Confronting the Crisis.
Quelle	(2002), (66 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	0-89068-160-0
Schlagwörter	Change Strategies; Delivery Systems; Demand Occupations; Education Work Relationship; Educational Change; Educational Improvement; Educational Needs; Educational Planning; Educational Policy; Educational Resources; Employment Patterns; Employment Qualifications; Information Technology; Job Skills; Job Training; Labor Force Development; Lifelong Learning; National Organizations; Needs Assessment; Nonprofit Organizations; Postsecondary Education; Professional Associations; Program Content; Program Descriptions; Public Policy; Recruitment; Skill Development; Strategic Planning; Systems Approach; Technology Integration; Training Methods; Trend Analysis; Two Year Colleges; Vocational Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lösungsstrategie; Auslieferung; Lehrerreserve; Bildungsreform; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Bildungsplanung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsmittel; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Informationstechnologie; Produktive Fertigkeit; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Arbeitskräftebestand; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Bedarfsermittlung; Nonprofit-Organisation; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Programmgestaltung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Systemischer Ansatz; Didaktik; Trainingsmaßnahme; Trendanalyse; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	The Digital Economic Opportunity Committee (DEOC) was created by the National Policy Association (NPA) in 2001 to confront the critical national shortage of workers with the information technology (IT) skills needed for the information age economy. The committee oversaw an 18-month workforce development research project titled Crossing the Digital Divide to Digital Economic Opportunity. The project established that the IT skills gap crisis has impacted virtually all jobs. The following areas were identified as the most critical areas of long-term IT workforce development needed to build a digital workforce: (1) create lifelong learning systems for workers; (2) improve existing IT instruction; (3) increase worker IT training resources; and (4) enlarge the pool of IT workers. Recommended intermediate actions included improving IT instruction by upgrading current teachers' IT skills, increasing the use of IT in classrooms, and reaching out to nontraditional labor pools to recruit and train IT workers. The following items constitute approximately 70% of the document: profiles of successful IT workforce development programs at 25 U.S. firms; a list of 54 web sites of resource organizations; a brief profile of the NPA; lists of NPA officers and trustees and DEOC members; and a list of 14 selected NPA publications. (MN)
Anmerkungen	National Policy Association, 1424 16th Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036-2229 ($10). For full text: http://www.npa1.org/DigitalDivide/book3insidepages1.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC