●  What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?

Digital collaboration platform refers to the digital space and tools that support local and global collaboration.  Digital collaboration platform is a powerful tool for teaching, learning and educational practice.  These tools can support the learning experience, help students develop digital and career-related skills, and support professional development.

 In recent years, digital collaboration platforms have become increasingly popular in the education field, and the global new crown pneumonia epidemic has accelerated the use of digital collaboration platforms.  In India, educators and the government are using digital collaboration tools, such as social networking platforms, online course platforms, mobile applications, and wireless communication technologies such as radio and television, to communicate with students and support learning during the new crown pneumonia epidemic.  Educational countermeasures issued by UNESCO during the epidemic also pointed out dozens of distance learning solutions and mentioned collaborative spaces many times. The five major technology drivers used by the school are: digital collaboration platforms, online privacy and security tools, analytics and adaptive technologies, cloud infrastructure, and mobile devices.  The “2020 Basic Education Innovation Driving Force Report (Technology)” identifies digital collaboration platforms and online privacy and security tools as key technologies for schools to overcome obstacles and adapt to educational development trends during the new crown epidemic and in the future, and conduct in-depth analysis.

●  What can you (as a student) consider to expand your professional learning network?

Countries with digital courses can now provide distance learning for children and young people who have Internet connections and use mobile phones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers at home.  This tool has been used in Kosovo, East Timor and Ukraine.  These tools can achieve cross-temporal collaboration and facilitate access to a wider range of data and resources, thereby providing a wider range of learning opportunities.  They can be used to cultivate connections between people, break through the limitations of physical space, and eliminate the sense of isolation caused by distance.

 The digital collaboration platform supports synchronous and asynchronous group work, which can minimize or change the complex challenges behind collaboration.  Through the digital collaboration platform, educators and students can fundamentally improve the way they create collaboratively, from the occasional parallel personal work to simultaneous collaboration and continuous feedback.  For example, the Meriden Public School in Connecticut, USA, uses a web application to support elementary school students’ individual learning and group work.

 These online tools also support global collaboration, enabling students to collaborate with people in the class or other regions.  Digital collaboration platforms can also cultivate students’ sense of ownership of their work and digital skills development.  Digital collaboration platforms also provide great opportunities for educators to establish connections with each other and with partners in the industry and the community.

●  In your network, how can you create a digital identity/reputation?

Take the character identity management system as an example.  By performing identity verification between peers and certified notaries, personas are assigned trust.  Individuals obtain a professionally certified digital identity to meet your customer (KYC) requirements.  Before getting digital services, more and more KYC-compliant identities are needed.  Digital citizens can now engage in any form of activity-investment, banking, social media-by signing a verified digital identity, which is centrally managed.  This encrypted identity does not have a single point, it can be the target of theft or failure.

●  Consider what a local employer would do if you applied for a job with them – can they search the content, is it of benefit to the career path, does it hinder the opportunity of employment?

In the digital age, digital platforms for the labor market are increasingly helping job seekers (from informal workers to highly skilled professionals) to find suitable jobs.  These platforms can gather a large amount of data and have three advantages: first, it reduces the difficulty for job seekers to understand recruitment information and requirements; second, it reduces recruitment costs; and third, they self-market to the broader market for individual job seekers  Provide a platform.  Looking to the future, digital employment platforms can improve their data aggregation and analysis capabilities and reduce labor market inefficiencies, including designing more relevant evaluation standards for specific positions, training job applicants based on market conditions and needs, and assisting through qualification certificates and employer evaluations  Individual job seekers plan career development.  For digital employment platforms, companies and schools must work closely together to ensure that the training of labor can respond to the changing needs of the market.  At the same time, digital employment platforms must serve both companies and job seekers.  In order to support the continued growth and transformation of digital employment platforms in emerging markets, local governments and the private sector (including companies and investors) must also actively play a key catalytic role.

The following advantages are democratized in information: Open digital employment platforms provide a level playing field, especially for those who do not have professional contacts or cannot access relevant information sources.  In order to attract and retain the best talents, companies will try their best to manage and maintain their reputation as a good employer (increased mobility and transparency in the labor market).  In this way, the digital employment platform narrows the information gap in the job market and helps improve the efficiency of the labor market and the wages of workers.  Job search costs are low: Compared with offline platforms, digital platforms greatly reduce the time and money that job seekers and employers spend searching for jobs.  Digital platforms accelerate the speed of communication, screening, evaluation and matching.  This technology allows both parties to search for a wider range of job opportunities or candidates in a shorter time, thereby increasing the probability of achieving a better match.  In addition, such platforms can help protect the self-esteem of job seekers.  For example, in Morocco, job seekers wait in line at the job center on a regular basis, sometimes a whole day, which is their first step in finding a job.  Digital platforms allow job seekers to conduct most of the search and query process privately and online.  In some areas where women are prejudiced against women actively seeking jobs, online platforms can increase women’s labor force participation.