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Change at the Micro Level

By WENDY TERRY - September 28 2021

By WENDY TERRY - September 28 2021

In our Summer 2021 issue I did a story on Canada- A Learning Nation Dec., 2020 Report to show how the “Macro Level of Decision Making Affects the Micro Level of Courses For Adults” See www.learningcurves.org for this Summer issue and story. pg.10

In our Fall 2021 issue in this story I will summarize the changes I could see from the priorities recommended by the Report found in a scan of course offerings for the Fall term.

Micro Credentials

For priority Four New and Innovative Approaches to Skills Development and Validation such as Micro Credentials, this development was clear on the Website for the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto.

Search learn.utoronto.ca, select Programs and Courses then select Unique Programs @

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Editorial

Building Future Generations

By MINA WONG - September 28 2021

Angie Cheng is a parent, worker, and university student. Earlier this year, she told Learning Curves (Spring Issue 2021) how her family of five had lived through a year of COVID. Last week, I asked her to tell me more about her life since coming to Canada twenty years ago.

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Dear Elcee
Learning Curves

Please help!  I am 35 years old and am so tired of going from one job to another.  I had dreams of graduating college after studying  computer programming  and settling into a job.

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Career Focus

Align Yourself With a Better Career

By ADMIN - July 15 2021

It can also be one of the most challenging undertakings we can engage in. The sheer volume of choices out there can be simply overwhelming. And when you realize that a staggering 50% of the jobs available today didn’t even exist a decade ago, that just adds to the potential anxiety.

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Career Focus

How to Make the Gaps in Your Resume Work for You

By ADMIN - July 15 2021

As a result of COVID, a lot of people have lost their employment. Depending on how long you have been out of the labour market, you may be wondering how to handle the employment gaps in your resume. This gap triggers some concern for those individuals because the common social narrative implies that the gap is a negative reflection of their professionalism.

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Career Focus

Soft Skills or Resiliency Skills?

By LISA TRUDEL - July 15 2021

For the past 10 years, I have worked with a career centre called Achēv. Our office is located at 595 Parliament Street and it is still there even though since March of 2020 all staff have been working remotely from home. Despite this, Achēv has found a way to keep everyone very connected by using Zoom, MS Teams and emails. I never feel alone and a day never passes that I do not have a conversation with one of my colleagues.

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Career Focus

Time Savers and Shortcuts

By LISA TRUDEL - July 15 2021

When I was in Grade 2, I discovered what a “shortcut” was. Instead of walking to school along the side of the road, my brother showed me a path through a farmer’s field that could save me five minutes of time.

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Love of Learning

University in the Community

By ADMIN - July 15 2021

From time to time, you may have seen an article about University in the Community (UitC) in Learning Curves and wondered what it was and whether it was something that you might like to join.

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Announcement

Learning Curves wants your writing!

By ADMIN - July 15 2021

If you have written poetry or a short story, share it with us and our readers. For further  information or to submit some writing, email us at learningcurves@hotmail.com.

Priority given to previously unpublished work of new writers.

Univesity in the
Community

UitC Fall/Winter Program

Fall – 2020 COVID-19 Learn from Home Edition

University in the Community logo

Where: Wherever you can access the internet (Formerly held at Innis College, University of Toronto)

When: Wednesday evenings,
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm,
September 27th – November 29th, 2020

Student Resources

How the Macro Level of Decision Making Affects the Micro Level of Courses for Adults

By WENDY TERRY - July 15 2021

Often as adult learners we are focused on finding a course at a time we can make it, that meets a specific learning need, the micro level. But there are activities going on at a macro level which shape what we are offered at the micro level. Canada- A Learning Nation report describes the work of the Future Skills Advisory Council, an advisory council to the federal Ministry of Employment Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion. This report came out in December 2020 but I just found it scanning the net for what I can’t remember now.

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