Manila Skills Experts’ Meeting on emerging Extended Reality (XR) technologies
The meeting aims to present innovative XR-enabled solutions for skills development and lifelong learning and facilitate detailed discussion among national stakeholders on how best apply these solutions to the context of the Philippines.
Background
Two and a half years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, societies all-over the world are still suffering from the impact of the pandemic. The TVET and the Education systems in general have not been spared and the lack of system-level digital strategies, poor technological infrastructure and weak teachers’ e-readiness, has exposed important inequalities in the global skills development picture. Emerging technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality (all together known as XR - Extended Reality) can support TVET and Education systems in easing the impact of future disruptions, ensuring not only continuity of training delivery but also an impact in terms of scalability, personalization, safety and cost-effectiveness, to drive the sustainable improvement of Skills Development opportunities, far beyond the pandemic response.
About the meeting
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), in partnership with the Inter-Agency Council for Development and Competitiveness of Philippine Digital Workforce, and in collaboration with the International Labor Organization (ILO) through its International Training Centre (ITCILO), Skills for Prosperity Programme in the Philippines (SfP-Philippines) funded by the United Kingdom government, and the European Training Foundation (ETF( hold the three-day Manila Skills Experts’ Meeting on emerging Extended Reality (XR) technologies from April 18 to April 20 at Green Sun Hotel in Makati City.
Present during the meeting are high-level public policymakers, local lifelong learning-focused authorities, TVET and academia experts, industry representatives, and XR technology developers.
The meeting aims to present innovative XR-enabled solutions for skills development and lifelong learning and facilitate detailed discussion among national stakeholders on how best apply these solutions to the context of the Philippines.
The goal is to learn in more detail about the ongoing continued advancement of collaboratively developed action-oriented solutions in the field of Extended Reality applications for skills development and lifelong learning. The event is an opportunity to reflect on the changes of the world of work and life. It will provide a platform to:
Two and a half years after the outbreak of the Covid-19 crisis, societies all-over the world are still suffering from the impact of the pandemic. The TVET and the Education systems in general have not been spared and the lack of system-level digital strategies, poor technological infrastructure and weak teachers’ e-readiness, has exposed important inequalities in the global skills development picture. Emerging technologies such as virtual, augmented and mixed reality (all together known as XR - Extended Reality) can support TVET and Education systems in easing the impact of future disruptions, ensuring not only continuity of training delivery but also an impact in terms of scalability, personalization, safety and cost-effectiveness, to drive the sustainable improvement of Skills Development opportunities, far beyond the pandemic response.
About the meeting
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), in partnership with the Inter-Agency Council for Development and Competitiveness of Philippine Digital Workforce, and in collaboration with the International Labor Organization (ILO) through its International Training Centre (ITCILO), Skills for Prosperity Programme in the Philippines (SfP-Philippines) funded by the United Kingdom government, and the European Training Foundation (ETF( hold the three-day Manila Skills Experts’ Meeting on emerging Extended Reality (XR) technologies from April 18 to April 20 at Green Sun Hotel in Makati City.
Present during the meeting are high-level public policymakers, local lifelong learning-focused authorities, TVET and academia experts, industry representatives, and XR technology developers.
The meeting aims to present innovative XR-enabled solutions for skills development and lifelong learning and facilitate detailed discussion among national stakeholders on how best apply these solutions to the context of the Philippines.
The goal is to learn in more detail about the ongoing continued advancement of collaboratively developed action-oriented solutions in the field of Extended Reality applications for skills development and lifelong learning. The event is an opportunity to reflect on the changes of the world of work and life. It will provide a platform to:
- share experiences with experts from the XR sector as well as from the skills development space, ranging from high-level public policymakers to local lifelong learning-focused authorities, from social partners representatives to civil society and academia experts, from company owners to technology developers;
- work multilaterally to review together the existing XR solutions to identify areas for potential adoption in the Philippines and for the their enhancement and development of new solutions in the context of the evolving XR technologies and reflect on how these can be implemented both for education and for industry-focused skills-related purposes;
- bring in ground-breaking keynote speakers to lead the participants into an Experts’ Hackathon, with the aim to respond to the challenges emerged as a result of the identified priorities and emerging opportunities in the TVET sector.