Jason Gaulden sat down with Leslie Morse at the Business Agility Conference 2019. They talked about the Age of Agility on the Accenture | Solutions IQ Agile Amped podcast. Read more and listen to their conversation below.
Jason Gaulden is the Vice President of Partnerships at America Succeeds and co-author of the groundbreaking report, “The Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work.” In his work, Gaulden strives to embed agility into the learning process, both in terms of the technical skillset and the lifelong learning mindset that students need “to succeed in the global economy but contribute to their local community.”
The rapid decline of the value of a college degree epitomizes the need for this paradigm shift in education. Before, it used to serve as a good proxy for proving that you had the knowledge to get ahead. But going forward, we need to address three major obstacles:
- Students do not enter the workforce of today with all of the technical skillsets and Agile mindset they need to succeed.
- Teachers cannot “relay knowledge they don’t have themselves.”
- The education system needs to be more customized to different learning paths and learning journeys.
Truly, America Succeeds’ three tenets of Agile students, Agile teachers and Agile education systems help reflect these problems.
Accenture | SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse hosts at the Business Agility Conference in New York City.
Read the original post on the SolutionsIQ blog here.
