While many employers have expressed concern about the need
to train or reskill workers to handle new technologies, remarkably few offer
necessary learning programs to their workers.
According to Randstad Sourceright’s 2020 Talent Trends Report, 92 percent of HR leaders believe their company should be responsible for providing the reskilling employees need...
Learning platforms Degreed and LearnUpon announced a partnership
that offers their products through a single solution.
LearnUpon’s tools enable companies to create, manage and track formal learning programs, such as mandatory or optional training. Degreed provides a single app through which workers can find, access and track formal training—such as courses...
Phenom People and learning platform Docebo will integrate their
so that customers can better identify skills gaps using Phenom AI, then automate
delivery of training content to employees.
The companies said that although 70 percent of talent professionals say their company identifies or plans to identify employee skills gaps, only 37 percent...
Learning and development efforts are moving higher on the
corporate priority list, pushed by the pace of business, concerns about
transformation and the skills gap. At the same time, line managers often resist
training efforts because they don’t want employees to miss work.
A report from the IT trade association CompTIA found that...
Glint and BetterUp each launched features
that emphasize personalization as a way to provide employees with a more
engaging development experience. For Glint, it’s about feedback. For BetterUp,
it’s about coaching.
Glint, owned by LinkedIn, announced Glint 360s. Designed to work with the company’s Engage and Perform tools, the product helps users create...
Fuel50 added two features to its talent experience platform: ones delivers virtual career support to employers who need to restructure their workforce due to the coronavirus, the others designed to support evolving approaches to work.
The first product, called FuelFutures, is meant to help employers quickly respond to the rapidly...
Paylocity has acquired VidGrid, a video platform that
provides two-way, peer-to-peer learning courses. The companies aren’t strangers
to each other: They’ve worked together for several years to deliver video learning
to Paylocity clients.
Those efforts created the opportunity for the companies to
join forces as one entity, Paylocity said.
Employees have put increasing emphasis...
Eightfold.ai and EdCast teamed up to offer personalized career-planning tools that will help employees develop their own career paths and work toward their short- and long-term goals.
The companies, which both put much stock in AI-driven technology, have integrated their solutions so customers can provide employees with the means to...
Learning company Guild Education acquired Entangled Group, a “venture studio” that focuses on products related to training and development.
Guild said the acquisition, its first, will help it accelerate the development of solutions that, among other things, help displaced workers find new jobs. Entangled’s investments in other companies—it’s a venture...
eLearning Brothers released an authoring tool, which it describes as the first “synergistic solution” stemming from the May acquisitions of tools-providers Trivantis and Edulence.
The company said the product, a new version of the Trivantis toolset Lectora, combines web-based, desktop and virtual reality authoring capabilities with the eLearning Brothers Asset...
