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Coursera research in the WEF Future of Jobs Report 2023: learners without degrees can learn critical skills just as fast as degree holders

Coursera

Digital transformation, automation, and globalization are creating a skilled worker shortage and an unprecedented need for reskilling and upskilling globally. The breathtaking rise of generative AI further compounds the urgency, as a new class of knowledge workers is now at risk of displacement.

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Employee Empowerment—How It’s Done and Why You Should Care

Vitalyst

In a 1999 California Management Review article, Peter Drucker—who is widely regarded as the “father of modern management”—stated that the most important contribution management will need to make in the 21st century will be increasing the productivity of knowledge workers. They have to manage themselves. They must have autonomy.

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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

2017: DeepMind’s AlphaGo caps a series of victories against humans in what is considered the most complex game in the world, Go. digital assistants for enterprise knowledge workers. 2016: Russia deploys AI to successfully influence the U.S. Where Is AI in Education and Talent Development? automated preventive maintenance.

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PlatCore’s Top 5 Moments of 5 Years

PlatCore

Watch the Top 5 moments that helped build the company we are today: Read the whole story: Moment #1: CreatorCon 2017. Knowledge workers like working from home – and many will never go back to the office full time. As an enterprise learning company, we’ve had successes, challenges, and giant learning along the way.

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Curation: Multi-cycle Support for Learning

CLO Magazine

Curation is one of the hot words in the talent field in 2017. As the quantity and diversity of content multiplies, learners and organizations are yearning for order, structure, efficiency and targeted knowledge and information options. The role of curation in that shifting landscape includes a panorama of content types.

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A Network of Experts: From Content Curation to Insight Curation

CLO Magazine

Yet only 21 percent of organizations say that current talent and other HR technology always meets their needs, according to Deloitte’s 2017 “The Future of Work” report, thus limiting the enablement of employees as experts. According to a 2014 McKinsey and Co.

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Learning in the new workplace — meeting the needs of the modern employee

Matrix

In a similar spirit, Ikujiro Nonaka, author of The Knowledge Creating Company , characterized knowledge-creating companies as places where “inventing new knowledge is not a specialized activity… it is a way of behaving, indeed, a way of being, in which everyone is a knowledge worker.”