We are very excited about our new FutureLearn MOOC, Building your Career in Tomorrow’s Workplace, which starts on Monday 14th January. It will be run by myself and my colleague Alison Truelove from the University of Exeter Business School. We both strongly believe in helping people to achieve their potential in a rapidly changing environment – one that offers significant opportunities and also challenges.
The future of work is being shaped by digital and technological innovations as well as trends towards global organising. Developments in fields such as robotics, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) are proving to be highly disruptive to society and to ourselves as employees or entrepreneurs.
Our objective is to equip learners with the knowledge and skills necessary to reach their intended career goals in a world of work which increasingly requires flexibility, adaptability and lifelong learning.
We are delighted to welcome Giles O’Halloran as a Mentor. Giles is fascinated by the future of work. He has been a keen observer of the changing nature of work and the workplace over the last two decades as both an HR and Career Transition professional. He is a freelance coach and consultant in the gig economy, and is also a lead tutor for the CIPD. He has spent the last ten years writing for a leading career transition publication on employability and the changing nature of careers. He is also passionate about the development of the digital workspace and helping people develop their digital skills portfolio.
We would also like to thank the following people for their contributions to the course:
- Nic Fair, PhD student in Web Science and Digital Educator from the University of Southampton. Nic is the Lead Educator on FutureLearn’s Learning in the Network Age MOOC.
- Dawn Lees, Andi Smart, Adam Lusby, Sarah Dyer, David Boughey, Claire Dinan, Steph Comley, Jason Flower and Olly Chanter from the University of Exeter.
- Our team of Student Digital Champions Ben Wood, Shuyi Tang and Luke Henderson.
- Our industry experts Andy Stanford-Clark, Kaitlin Gould and David Ferguson.
You can also raise questions, share useful resources or your own posts on Twitter at any time via the course hashtag #FLfutureofwork.
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