Title: Phenomenon-based Learning Curriculum Design to Mitigate the Skills Gap
Stream: Curriculum Design & Development
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Kelly La Venture, Bemidji State University, United States
Julie Adams, Bemidji State University, United States
Abstract:
Urgently needed, are solutions to help mitigate the global skills shortage that threaten the long-term economic prosperity of many nations and to address highly complex transnational challenges. These solutions require extensive coordination through the local and global levels, from different professionals, and include increased worker training, education, and close collaboration with educational institutions to improve graduate employability. Organizations need suitable candidates who have the right skills and appropriate education to fill an ever-increasing number of jobs. To alleviate the talent shortage impacting innovation and global economies, young people need a globalized perspective that may in part, be developed through phenomenon-based learning (PhenoBL). Phenomenon-based learning is a strategy born out of constructionism and developed in Finland. Students start with a real-world challenge then use collaboration and inquiry-based learning to grapple with real-world concepts to solve problems (Sislander, 2015). A phenomenological perspective on students learning (1) prepares students for a narrow and receptive appreciation of a whole system and provides a globalized perspective, (2) integrates with ethics and values, thus complementing the students’ cognitive competencies by explicitly emphasizing the training of relevant skills and competencies, and (3) bridges the gap between theoretical knowledge and knowledge-based actions in real life situations by promoting the action aspect of learning and teaching (Østergarrd, Lieblein, Breland, & Francis, 2010). This work-in-progress paper includes a review of PhenoBL, overview of student and instructor roles, an in-depth dive into the curriculum re-design to PhenoBL in a marketing course, and the impacts of PhenoBL on mitigating the skills gap.
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