Comment by R_D_Olivaw
3 months ago
I'm curious, hoping you might shed some insight.
I'm not in tech per se, but in education with a seasoning of tech.
Would you have any insight into what the field for education or training might look like for your new field?
I think (perhaps feel is better) that manufacturing will make some sort of comeback and that the gratification from it is actually quite beneficial for the human condition.
So, I'm interested in trying to glean what I might pivot into from the perspective of training and education.
I don’t know exactly what educators roles are, but there are lots of training programs out there sponsored either by government job placement programs or industry associations. In Chicago, JARC is one example. Also, a lot of the larger companies have big training programs to onboard inexperienced workers into skilled trades. Most of the classes themselves seem to be taught by people in those trades rather than teachers, but surely that isn’t always the case, and the curriculum development probably involves professional educators. Some of the things are pretty techy— automating industrial robots for example — but in don’t have any direct knowledge of that.