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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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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 Not surprisingly, the release noted that the deal combines learning and performance in a way not yet realized in the market. look forward to joining forces with Vector Capital and Saba.

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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. Lee Maxey is CEO of MindMax, a marketing and enrollment management services company. Bye-bye paper? We’ll see a seminal moment, if you will.

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Mobile Learning Stats that Will Make You Rethink Your Training Strategy

SHIFT eLearning

It’s expected that by 2016, global tablet sales reach 375 million units, an almost seven times increase from the 2012 56 million sales, with one-third purchased by businesses and two-fifths by emerging markets. Anytime, anywhere workers in the US and Europe grew from 15% to 29% of employees between 2011 and 2012. Mobile growth.

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Staffing Firm Adecco Enters Education With General Assembly Acquisition

CLO Magazine

Adecco Group continued its push beyond the staffing-management world into the broader HR spectrum with the April 16 acquisition of global education technology startup General Assembly. It’s also another indication that the education technology market continues to sizzle. The deal, valued at $412.5

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7 Best Practices for Maximizing the Value of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

KZO Innovations

Between 2011 and 2017, participation in resource groups among companies who ranked in DiversityInc’s Top 10 leapt from 29% to 38%. Many companies also rely on their ERGs to foster innovative thinking and break into or expand into new markets. Expand market reach and recruiting network. Source: DiversityInc. Source: SHRM.