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How Digital Badges are Driving a Positive Transformation in Corporate Learning  

Origin Learning

billion in 2017. Despite the economic recession and slow-down and turbulent global markets; there is consistent investment in training staff and helping them work better. From January 1, 2017, IMS Global Learning Consortium is handling the progress and updates to the Open Badges Project. In 2012, roughly US$55.8

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Putting the Future of Work in a Global Context

General Assembly

It’s undergoing a seismic shift that, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, “is happening ten times faster and at 300 times the scale, or roughly 3,000 times the impact” compared to the Industrial Revolution. We know technology is transforming the global workforce. By: Tom Ogletree Today’s workforce is not just changing.

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ELearning Shows No Signs of Stopping

LearnDash

In 2011, roughly $35.6 billion was spent on elearning globally. From 2013 to 2017, the growth rate is projected to be around 23%, with over 40% of Fortune 500 companies leveraging elearning to training. Convincing an organization that elearning is important is not as difficult as it once was in the past.

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Saba to Acquire Halogen Software in 2017’s First Big HR Technology Deal

CLO Magazine

The deal, worth a reported $293 million , is expected to close in the second quarter of 2017. billion Oracle-Taleo deal or 2011’s $3.4 Together, we have the opportunity to scale faster and lead the way in performance, learning, and engagement and expand our global impact.”. Rick Bell is editorial director for Workforce. .

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Teachers, Thinking and Learning in 2017

CLO Magazine

Maybe not: According to a 2011 survey of millennials by TNS Research Global, 79 percent receive electronic bank statements online and 61 percent read newspapers online. Think of it as becoming body smart, and using that information to better approach learning and develop mastery of a subject. Bye-bye paper?

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4 Ways to Leverage Translation in eLearning Videos

Instilled

Providing video-based learning and auto-captioning in multiple languages isn’t the challenge it once was for businesses with a global footprint. This blog post explores how the straightforward application of automated services such as captioning and translation in eLearning is benefiting the global delivery of training content.

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Recognizing training success with digital badges

Matrix

Since organizations have gone global and often times the L&D department is in one location and various branches of the company are geographically scattered, printing and sending out diplomas would take a lot of time, resources and also feel rather impersonal. Origins of digital badges. Here, a digital badge was defined as.

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