“The pace of change is accelerating. Competition for the right talent is fierce. And ‘talent’ no longer means the same as ten years ago; many of the roles, skills and job titles of tomorrow are unknown to us today.“

Carol Stubbings, Workforce of the Future: The Competing Forces Shaping 2030, 2018:3

Overview

Module 1 – Career Success in the Information Age – 16 Courses

Module 2 – Flexible Thinking and Metaliteracy – 7 Courses

Module 3 – Critical Thinking and Decision-Making – 8 Courses

Module 4 – Information Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity – 27 Courses

Module 5 – Legal Concerns for Professionals – 11 Courses

Module 6 – Research Methods – 11 Courses

Module 7 – Data Science – 20 Courses

Module 8 – Career Brand Management – 6 Courses

Diplomas – 61 Certificates 

Final Project – To be determined

I built this concentration to develop my cognitive and administrative abilities to process information and to be super smart with how I go about developing a flexible career in an age of rapid skillset shifts and increasing reliance on big data…

“Neurons are living cells with a metabolism; they need oxygen and glucose to survive and when they’ve been working hard, we experience fatigue. Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.“

Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, 2015:6-7

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