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Future Skills | Educators

Help your students gain the skills they need to succeed

The flexibility of the Future Skills modules and their ability to foster meaningful skill development make them an invaluable resource for enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. Through their use, students develop key competencies while implementing strategies to enhance their skills.

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Astrid Eckstein

Instructor, Haskayne School of Business


Building Future Skills

In line with University of Calgary’s strategic plan Ahead of Tomorrow, post-secondary educators have an essential role in innovating and expanding how we equip students with the foundational and transferable skills required to succeed in the rapidly changing workforce.

The Future Skills Innovation Network (FUSION) is a collaborative network of Canadian universities focused on exploring inclusive and innovative learning approaches to foster skill development and prepare university students across the country for the future economy.

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FUSION orients itself around a common set of challenges facing universities:


Future Skills modules allow students to build foundational knowledge, apply it and reflect on their learning.

Explore

Learn about and define the skill and engage in a self-assessment of the skill.

Apply

Complete a series of activities that explore how the skill can be used to navigate in a variety of contexts and environments.

Reflect

Look back at the applied learning experience, analyze what was learned, and set goals for the future.

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Future Skills modules are grounded in cutting edge research and reviewed by world-renowned experts in the topic. Modules are designed to include:

Videos

Self-assessment

Case studies

Reflection


Implementing Future Skills in your classroom

Modules are open-access and come with suggested facilitation strategies and tools to implement.

Pick a module

Explore the modules in the D2L Future Skills Facilitator Portal. Pick a skill module to start with.

Decide on evaluation

Decide if you plan to evaluate students’ participation and learning from the Future Skills module.

Prepare the module

Upload the Skills module(s) of choice to your D2L by emailing Future.Skills@Ucalgary.ca (our team will help you!).

Set up the module

Customize the Skills module (e.g., add a Dropbox for assignments, add the expectations into your course outline).

During your course

Once your course is up, our team is available for consultation on the modules and to troubleshoot technicalities.

Evaluate

Assess the success of implementation at the end of the course.

For more information and to get involved in the project: Email us