This research paper presents a novel educational program that aims to improve the work readiness of emerging talent around the world through remote, paid, global apprenticeships and human skills training for both apprentices and managers. The program focuses on 1) remote work readiness, 2) real-life mentored learning (apprenticeships), and 3) manager and supervisor preparedness.

This research paper presents the results of the first evaluation of the learning experience, challenges and opportunities of the Certificate in Computer and Data Science (CDS). It evaluates two different real-life experiential learning opportunities (ELOs): supervised internships and self-guided projects.

This paper introduces the ACE framework along with its different learning approaches and modalities (e.g. asynchronous and synchronous online courses, virtual synchronous bootcamps, and real-life mentored apprenticeships and internships) and presents the MIT Refugee Action Hub (ReACT) as an illustrative example.

Currently, MIT ReACT has regional presence in the Middle East and North Africa, East Africa, South America, Asia, Europe and North America.

Foundational description of the ACE model, with examples using the MIT Open Learning offerings. Originally from the SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) 48th annual online conference, 2020, Enschede, Netherlands.

Top talent is all over the world but opportunities are not. This paper aims to understand the skills top companies seek from emerging talent to bridge the gap between talent and opportunities. Paper in collaboration with The Intern Group.

Entrepreneurship Training Organizations (ETOs) report focused on exploring the ETOs landscape, including incubators and accelerators, to identify their academic interests and approaches and how higher education institutions can support their goals.

Corporate Education and Training Programs (CETPs), which are part of the corporate university landscape, offer upskilling and reskilling opportunities to the workforce. This paper swept across CETPs from around the globe to understand the current and future state of corporate education.

White paper presenting different projects led and supported by MIT that follow the ACE’s model, highlighting their online, on-site and at-work experiences at its core.

Book synopsis: In this groundbreaking look at the science of learning, Sanjay Sarma, head of Open Learning at MIT, shows how we can harness this knowledge to discover our true potential. Drawing from his own experience as an educator as well as the work of researchers and innovators at MIT and beyond, in Grasp, Sarma explores the history of modern education, tracing the way in which traditional classroom methods—lecture, homework, test, repeat—became the norm and showing why things needs to change.

Book synopsis: A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training. The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma offer a roadmap for rebuilding America's working class. They argue that we need to train more workers more quickly, and they describe innovative methods of workforce education that are being developed across the country.