Recently an interesting article was published in Dutch newspaper NRC by Ruben Verborgh (Tem Big Tech: put data in private safes - in Dutch). He explains that it is time to give users control over their personal data. This of course also applies to data about courses and educational programmes.
Work-related training courses come in all shapes and sizes and during your working life you will follow a lot of them. From an introductory course at the start of your first job to the "Retirement in sight" course at your last employer. And from practical training in the workplace to take on a new way of working, to sometimes years of study. Classroom-based but nowadays also most of the time online.
But what happens to the results of all those courses and the evidence to demonstrate that you have completed them when you change jobs? Of course, the knowledge is in your head and through your behaviour you can show that you actually master the subject matter. However, how do you take the evidence that you have followed these courses with you if it is only digitally registered in the personnel system of your previous employer? After all, you can't physically take a "completed check mark" in a system with you. And this kind of data is not (or hardly) interchangeable with the systems at your new workplace.
Lifelong learning should therefore be supported by the right technique, so that you, as an employee, are in charge of your own (training) data.
We at Beansters also like this idea and that is why we are exploring the possibilities to develop a solution together with partners and customers. If you are also working on this, or have any ideas about it, we would like to get in touch with you. Let's work together to regain control of our personal data as users, starting with our own learning data!