Re-skilling

Resilient Communities need to be able to produce the most common things they need. Many skills for doing so have been lost to mass production. One can learn these skills over time, with a minimal but ongoing effort and investment in tools.

Contents 1 Learning modes 2 Skills for Traditional Production 3 Skills for New Production 4 Ways to finance re-skilling 5 Incentives for learners and teachers

Along with acquiring back-to-basics skills for earlier kinds of production, residents of Resilient Communities can gain skills to produce with a range of new tools. Costs of 3D Printers and related desktop manufacturing tools are plunging. As they become more affordable, Resilient Communities will be able to locally produce a far wider range of useful goods than ever before by "cottage industries." The Internet enables individuals, households, and neighborhoods in Resilient Communities to partner with learning providers in new ways to gain skills for such tools, and to keep their skills up to date.

Access to the web is essential as well for jobseekers to acquire or upgrade personal skills to make a good living in booming new freelance markets for telework (known also as "remote services"). Residents in Resilient Communities can use Internet learning resources to refresh or acquire new skills in fields such as photo captioning, web research, copy-editing, customer service, and monitoring remote security webcams/alarm systems. They can also use Internet-enabled learning as to grow in advanced skills such as animation and software development. Access to online courses and certifications will help students and jobseekers succeed in these large, fast-growing virtual markets.

Here are resources that can help individuals, families, neighborhoods and communities to make the most of re-skilling opportunities for personal and business success.

Learning modes

Online

• eLearning courses
• On-Demand Learning & Electronic Performance Support (re-skilling at the moment of need)
• Online skills tests and certifications
• Peer learning communities
• Web-based tutoring/mentoring
• Virtual internships and work-study opportunities

Face to face (onsite)

• Skillshare
• MicroSociety Schools
• The Crucible
• Escondido Adult School/ROP

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This page has been created by the Openworld Team

Skills for Traditional Production

• Bioremediation
• Woodworking
• Metal forging
• Textiles
• Blacksmithing
• Cooking
• Fermentation
• Glassworking
• Language skills
• Leathercraft
• Welding

Skills for New Production

• 3D Printing
• Arduino Prototyping (see Arduino)
• (more to come)

Curating team for this section -- yet to be chosen by JR

Ways to finance re-skilling

• Community service commitments (on completion of studies)
• Funding education with personal currencies
• Human Capital Investments
• Land Grant Endowments
• Microscholarships
• Pledge Sites for Tuition Fundraising
• Prizes
• Social Impact Bonds
• Sponsored Internships
• Student Loans
• Traditional Scholarships/Student Aid
• Other

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This page has been created by the Openworld Team

Incentives for learners and teachers

• Vesting students as co-owners of schools
• Rewarding success in peer learning

Note

This page has been created by the Openworld Team