LearningCITY Library

Below are reports and papers developed by the LearningCITY Collective and our partners and offer the foundation for Calgary becoming a LearningCITY.

2023

• The Open Learning Lab

• World Education Services and LMIC’s Future of Work Annotated Bibliography.

• Exploring the Value of Downtown Postsecondary Programs

• Sector Downtown Visits Strategy (MRU Capstone Student Reports)

  • Postsecondary Student Strategy 1

  • Postsecondary Student Strategy 2

  • Adjacent Community Strategy 1

  • Adjacent Community Strategy 2

  • Urban Tourists Strategy

  • Downtown Employee Strategy

2022

• LearningCITY 2022 Final Report

• Calgary’s Skills Development Framework

  • LearningCITY Brief: An All-Access Learning System

  • LearningCITY Brief: Rethink Skills

  • LearningCITY Brief: The Calgary Talent Lab

  • LearningCITY Brief: Learning as a Climbing Wall

  • LearningCITY Brief: A City That Adapts

• Calgary Learning System Audit Report

• Alberta Youth Mobility - Work to Live

  • Alberta Youth Mobility - The Places You Could Go

  • Alberta Youth Mobility - Bridging the Reputation - Reality Divide

  • Alberta Youth Mobility - The New Alberta Talent Advantage

• Alberta’s Economy is Diversifying, but it Still has Some Challenges to Overcome

• Study Sheds Light on Why Young Adults are Leaving Alberta – and how to Bring Them Back

• Trusted Skills Project

• Student Guide to AccelerateU

2021

• Competencies for Life Program

  • Competencies for Life Final Report

• CreativeCITY - Prosperity through the Creative Economy

• Preparing for Hybrid Careers

• So You Want to Work in Sports? An Exploratory Study of Sport Business Employability

2020

• Calgary on the Precipice Executive Summary

• Calgary on the Precipice - Report 1

• Calgary on the Precipice - Report 2

• ActiveCITY Playbook 2030

• Skills that Matter

• An Entrepreneurial View of Universal Work-integrated Learning

• A Dynamic Capabilities View of Talent Acquisition: Resource Verification and Risk Management

• System Mapping: A Guide to Mapping Complex Systems

• A City as a Journey: Your Guide to Citizen Journey Mapping

• Student’s Community Mapping Final Reports

  • Beltline Community Mapping Report

  • Marda Loop Community Mapping Report

  • Victoria Park Community Mapping Report

  • Bowness Community Mapping Report

  • Northern Hills Community Mapping Report

  • Chinatown Community Mapping Report

• LearningCITY 2019 Final Report

2018

• Institutional Biography and Knowledge Dissemination: An Analysis of Canadian Business School Faculty

• Follow the Leaders? An Analysis of Convergence and Innovation of Faculty Recruiting Practices in US Business Schools

• A Survey of Undergraduate Marketing Programs: An Empirical Analysis of Knowledge Areas and Metaskills

• The Rigour–Relevance Gap in Professional Programmes: Bridging the ‘Unbridgeable’Between Higher Education and Practice

2016

• A Dynamic Capabilities View of Employability: Exploring the Drivers of Competitive Advantage for University Graduates

• Academic and Practitioner Antecedents of Scholarly Outcomes: Examining the Role of Industry Engagement of Business School Faculty

2015

• The Designing YOU Series (12 Career Guides)

• Changing Universities from the Bottom-Up

• Don't Let Yourself (Or Your Kid) Be The Next BlackBerry

2014

• Dare to Dream: Business School Performance Report

2013

• An Exploratory Study of Factors Affecting Undergraduate Employability

2012

• The Future of Marketing Education: A Practitioner’s Perspective