Education, Training, and Skill Development

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Education, Training, and Skill Development

• Common Sense is not so common unless
• It is A Shared Experience

Dennis Little, Chairman of the Board-Professional
Homebuilders Institute of Alberta October
19,2007 Distributed Learning in the 21st
Century
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Discussion Outline

• Common Sense
• Developing a Skilled and Qualified Workforce
• Creating opportunities for learning
• Lessons learned
• Effective alliances with educators
• Creating the infrastructure of common
  understanding
• Delivery system are only the tool

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Common Sense

• Beliefs or propositions that seem to most people,
  to be prudent and sound judgment without
  dependence upon esoteric knowledge

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Common Sense

• Ordinary good consciousness, awareness or
  understanding of some thing, arrived at through
  taking in account recent events and thought of
  others, used for the greater good of all involved.

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Common Sense

• Education and training will lead to increased
  performance
• Every one wants to perform , do well, and succeed
• Continuous skill development is desired by all
• etc

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Common Sense

• Finding the New Common Sense in todays rapidly
  changing environment

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Lessons Learned

• Incentives to learn
• Talk the same language
• Getting people to the classroom after hours
• Adult learner have a different set of challenges
• Tell what to do
• Will I use the knowledge?
• Bums in the seat
• Getting together

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Lessons Learned

• Train the leader
• Train more than the leader

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Center for Excellence

• An alliance
• Industry
• Educational institutions
• Government
• ANHWP
• PHBIA

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Center for Excellence

• Finding the Causal Issues

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Moisture Control

• Industry and Educators trying a different
  approach
• Moving away from this is what you do to heres
  how you evaluate the issues and then choose your
  solution,
• Lessons learned

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Soils Management

• Moving to an E-Learning Approach

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Occupational Designations

• Working with the established order to present
  something new

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Final Lessons

• Industry and Educators must work together but we
  need to understand each others Common Sense
• Industry must built the infrastructure that
  supports and rewards continuous learning
• Finding the delivery solutions is only part of
  the answer
• Start working together to create the common
  experiences