Quest Alliance Hosts 3rd Edition of Quest 2 Learn At NIAS Bengaluru

The summit will enable a dialogue on diverse aspects shaping the education - skills divide

In an endeavor to address these challenges Quest Alliance has promoted digital literacy in India by training more than 40,000 youth in the last 2 years, in over 100 centres, spread across 13 state

Quest Alliance, a not-for-profit trust that equips young people with 21st century skills by enabling self-learning, is organizing its third edition of Quest 2 Learn, a 2-day annual summit, on 28^th and 29^th June, 2018, at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru.

With a focus on Future of Work and Learning, the summit will enable a dialogue on diverse aspects shaping the education and skills divide. It also intends to highlight the skills required by young people to be able to work for jobs of tomorrow, and how the ecosystem of education can enable that. The summit offers a platform bringing together educators, technologists, CSR representatives of companies, government functionaries, designers and thinkers to find common purpose and ideate around ways to create systemic change in the Indian education and skills sectors. Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder - Riverside School and Design for Change and Punya Mishra of Arizona State University will be Keynote Speakers at the Summit.

Therefore, this is a must-attend event for all stakeholders in the skill development, vocational training, education, and CSR space in India, who are striving to create systemic and long-lasting change.

The event will emphasize on the following challenges:

Understanding the implications of the future of work in terms of classrooms, tools adopted by educators, and skills to be mastered and ways to learn them autonomously.

Encouraging collective thinking and self-learning as one of the approaches to correcting the education-skills divide

Going beyond the statistics to understand the impact of automation and technological change on different populations, especially, traditionally marginalised groups.

Creating dialogue around systems-thinking and systems-change, to understand what it takes to work with complex systems to bring about a long-term impact.

A dedicated look at the dynamics of gender and how young women and girls can be supported to make successful school to work transitions

Listening to and advising young, curious professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit for their own learning, along with seeking out projects, identifying supporters, and applying lessons from one experience to the next.

Mr. Aakash Sethi, CEO  Quest Alliance, said, “Skill profiles are undergoing rapid changes due to technological advancements, which creates a rising demand for enhanced digital capabilities. Solidifying basic foundational knowledge through self-learning, combined with meta-skills for problem solving, remains equally important, precisely because they provide the foundation for learnability. It is important to understand a learner and prepare them for the 21st century where they take charge of their learning and build their own pathways of success. With the advent of new technologies like AI, Blockchain, and IoT, the reskilling of young professionals is absolutely critical right now, and is only possible by adopting self-learning as a solution.”

He added, “In our constant endeavor to promote digital literacy in India, we have trained more than 40,000 youth in the last 2 years, in over 100 centres, spread across 13 states in the country. At Quest, our vision is to orient and enable youth towards career development, by encouraging and helping them to develop the required skill sets for the 21^st century, besides bridging the gap between the current situation and what will be required in the coming years.”

About QUEST Alliance: Founded in 2005, Quest Alliance is uniquely positioned to address the challenges of 21st century learning and jobs. Quest is fuelled by research, strengthened by partnerships and driven by innovation and technology. We enable learners with the freedom to drive life-long learning experience in a fun and impactful manner using our signature blended learning curriculum that develops 21st century life, work and digital skills for children & youth. We work closely with teachers and educators to bring about a mind-shift from teaching to facilitation through peer learning & data driven decision-making systems. We bring together diverse stakeholders. Over the last 10 years our work has demonstrated significant improvements in learning outcomes leveraging strengths of the non-profit, corporate sector and development agencies. www.questalliance.net

About Quest2Learn: Quest 2 Learn 2018 (www.quest2learn.net) is an annual summit organized by Quest Alliance, a non-profit trust working to bridge the education and skills divide by enabling self-learning for young learners. The platform brings together educators, design thinkers, organisations, CSR leaders, technologists and government to discuss the issues plaguing the education sector, which result in wide disparities between skill sets and requirements. Quest designs scalable and replicable solutions across three programs: Anandshala – works to create joyful schools; MyQuest – focuses on career development for youth; and MasterCoach – builds trainers as 21st Century change agents.