Purpose
This paper seeks EXCO’s approval on NCSS’s proposed approach to education innovation, which will position the Social Service Institute (SSI) as an enabler of innovative learning pedagogy, human capital programmes and technologies. The total funding required for FY16-20 is $6.xm, of which $1.xm will be from the Care & Share matching grant
Background & Problem Statement
2 SSI has over the past 10 years achieved a track record of training over 11,000 professionals yearly. Classroom delivery has been the primary mode of training which is limited by reach, capacity and scale.
• Reach: Caregivers, Volunteers and Board Members who will not or cannot attend classroom training
• Capacity: Constrained by physical location (utilisation >80%)
• Scale: How do we do more with less?
3 Moving forward, SSI proposes a Just-In-Time (JIT) education model that effectively develops a productive workforce in a short period of time. We aim to integrate individuals learning needs, workforce productivity and human capital intervention at the right time, right place and in the right form.
Solution: Education Innovation
Concept
4 Figure 1 describes the proposed model which looks at individual career development plans and identifies the ‘delta skills ’ required to fulfil career aspirations of an
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People: To develop ‘delta skills’ in a short period of time requires a larger ecosystem as compared to the traditional 1:20 ratio of teacher to student. It requires systematic deployment of many facilitators to many audiences i.e. subject matter expert/ thought leader (content expert), workplace mentor (context expert) and career mentor (career expert). However this will arise to a new function called ‘Community Management’. In our traditional model there wasn’t a single point of control to manage the entire ecosystem. This Community Management function should look at sourcing, deployment and engagement (physical or in virtual environment) between facilitators and