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Using Technology to Address Workforce Readiness Skills

Using Technology to Address Workforce Readiness Skills
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Author(s): Thomas G. Reio Jr. (Florida International University, USA)and Chaundra L. Whitehead (Florida International University, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 16
Source title: International Education and the Next-Generation Workforce: Competition in the Global Economy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4498-4.ch009

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Abstract

All too often, students either drop out of school or graduate with poor workplace readiness skills. The lack of preparedness is costly both on a short- and long-term basis to students, families, employers, and societies in general. In the workplace, employers are forced to be at the vanguard of addressing critical basic skill deficiencies related to reading, writing, mathematics, and using computers, among others, to remain competitive. Addressing these worker skills gaps through training and development activities can be cost prohibitive to organizations, especially in tough economic times. Understandably, business leaders are becoming more critical of an education system that produces individuals with such gaps. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the use of technology as a productive means of meeting the developmental or remedial educational needs of various underprepared workers entering the job market.

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