ABOUT PROJECT SANDI
Supporting and Advancing Nevada’s Dislocated Individuals (SANDI) at its core solves for workers, employers, students, and educational providers faced with:
- Need for lifetime learning
- Vulnerability of lower-skilled segment of workforce (not just from automation and increased skill requirements, but also from more limited career progression opportunities)
- Co-working with ever smarter machines
- Redefinition of traditional skill sets (e.g. data analytics and data interpretation, programming)
- Transformation of the educational sector to accommodate for the demand for continuous educational offerings and training
- Growth of shorter-term, stackable credentials offerings, which is also putting educational providers such as Community Colleges at the risk of increased competition
- Badges equating a targeted set of skills and competencies to meet very specific goals for upskilling or retraining
- Self-paced learning modules- online or in hybrid format combining online with project- and classroom or laboratory instruction
- Co-designed courses with employers
- Larger employers offering own credentials in-house, again putting educational providers such as Community Colleges at the risk of increased competition
- Virtual reality and 3D interactive training enhancements are used to provide career on-ramps via short term industry credentials through distance learning, to reskill and upskill folks for in-demand jobs within Nevada’s resilient growing industries.
