Learning & Training

Traditionally, have we not aligned goals, objectives, assessment, and outcomes to standards? We positioned these pillars as the quality and rigor measures that amplify what it is to be a “learned” individual. The 5G network enables blended learning and supports morphing our inputs, throughputs, and outputs. Moreover, the use of TMobiles 5G platform leverages open skills networks, OER, and Zdegrees permanently while positioning learners to earn. This quite literally provides “skills to pay the bills. ” For MBs used, think of cost per minute bills for college students and families, Pell eligible students, on average, made up 59.4% of the total number of MBs used between September and January, although the only made up 50% of all T-Mobile phone users. Likewise, students of color made up 35% of phone users, yet between September and January, on average students of color made up 41% of total MBs used.

What our students are expecting -

Emerging markets and urbanization • Trade, people, finance, and data: Greater global connections • Accelerating technological change • Responding to the challenges of an aging world • Create quadruple threat graduates who leave their respective high schools and Motlow after having completed dual enrollment courses, an apprenticeship, a longterm capstone project and receipt of an industry-recognized credential along with their degree and do this in half the time it usually takes.

We don’t have to have an either or approach to creating a sustainable workforce of skilled Tennesseans and credentialing via certificate or degreed graduates. Mike Sievert, TMobile CEO, states “Higher education environments foster bold ideas and cutting edge technologies … as a corporate partner innovation, T-Mobile for Education provides infrastructure to ensure academic research and development communities can thrive” (T-Mobile for Education Guide, p.2). I believe we must be compelled to enlist what works, where it works, when it works, for whom it works!