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JULY 26, 2022

Today’s global work landscape is full of uncharted territory. In an amazingly short time span, employers have been confronted with rapidly evolving technology, the work-from-home movement, the aptly named “Great Resignation,” and myriad other circumstances. These unique challenges require creative, tech-focused solutions, and many organizations must rely on consulting companies like Cognizant, one of the world’s leading professional service organizations.

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JULY 12, 2022

Organizations are being pressed to do more to keep teams together and win the battle against workforce churn. Employee retention is the key.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Challenge: Build pathways to spur employee growth and retention. “If we don’t know what jobs will exist in the future, how do we educate our people for them?”. That’s one of the big questions Allison Gemelke was asking herself in 2020. Gemelke is a senior corporate trainer at Nelnet, one of the largest and most respected student loan servicers in the United States.

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JUNE 8, 2022

The world is changing faster than ever, and companies are struggling to stay ahead of the curve. Savvy organizations recognize that the answer lies in developing and leveraging their most valuable asset: their people. However, people’s values are shifting, and with them their relationship with the places they work. Studies have found workers are more stressed than ever, with a staggering 81 percent reporting that they feel at risk of burnout and one in five saying that working for a company whos

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edX

MARCH 30, 2022

There is a growing global push toward sustainable practice driven by consumer, government, and industry pressures. The United Nations has released Sustainable Development Goals to drive change and commitment to sustainable practice before 2030. According to a Deloitte report, COP26 and the Paris Agreement Commitments will lead to a focus on supply chain decarbonization, reduction in emissions, and supply chain transformation to meet environmental goals.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Originally published on 2U's The Latest blog.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Learning and development leads have been doing more with less for the last two years. Departments have been tasked with completely rewriting learning plans and rewiring how employees think about skills development.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Human skills are the underpinning for resilient, successful workplaces. They connect employees to each other, to employers, and to the clients that they serve.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Business skills have always been foundational to keeping organizations competitive. As businesses become more digital, learning content that helps employees in all types of roles keep pace with the latest in business technology and practices has become critical. On the other hand, as technology changes the way we work, core competencies in areas like communication and project management are even more important.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

The pandemic has only increased businesses' acceleration towards digital transformation and underscored the power of technology and computer science skills to help overcome economic disruption across industries, including financial services. Under the lens of the pandemic, opportunities sharpen focus specifically in areas that help reduce costs, enable remote work, and sustain operations, which a Deloitte report says will help businesses prepare for and endure whatever comes next.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

As one of the industries most affected by pandemic-induced disruptions and acceleration of digital transformation, it’s no surprise that data science is a top skills area that financial services companies are investing in.

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edX

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Technology has rapidly shifted what types of skills are critical to employee and company success—and the success of today’s learning and development (L&D) programs. Increasingly, L&D professionals are leveraging cross-functional skills, from data analysis to digital marketing, to build, launch, and manage their programs.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Online learning has been a key lever for engaging employees and driving companies forward in a world upturned by economic disruption and a workforce adjusting to the challenges of productive remote work. To maximize the outcomes of E-learning investments, it’s essential to ensure initiatives are both aligned with business objectives and designed for a frictionless user experience. edX For Business’s new subscriptions offering was crafted to do just that, giving employees the flexibility to disco

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Despite the flood of eLearning initiatives in corporate learning and development, leaders still cite a failure to build a strong learning culture as a top organizational challenge. In this post, learn three ways to harness the unique potential of eLearning to create an organizational culture of learning and develop the dynamic new skills and capabilities that drive business results and workforces of the future.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

Online learning has never been more critical to the success of higher education than it is today. Since COVID-19 began, the departments and teams that deliver innovation and resources for online learning are in high demand. In June 2020, edX convened a Virtual Forum of its more than 150 partner institutions to discuss challenges and solutions for higher ed in today's environment.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

edX Online Campus delivers best-in-class learning for the modern campus. Develop the potential of every student, faculty, administrator, and alumni with the online learning platform built for results. San Jose City College | community college | 9,200 students | San Jose, California.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | public technical and research university | 4,100 undergraduates; 5,900 graduates | Mumbai, India. The Challenge: With School Shuttered, IIT Bombay Sought to Allow Students to Keep Learning. Like many universities, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) needed to make a quick shift from in-person classes to online classes in order to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Polytechnic University of Valencia | Public University | 55,000 students | Valencia, Spain.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

Dartmouth College | private university | 4,100 undergraduate; 2,100 graduate | 2,100+ undergraduate courses | New Hampshire, United States.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

University of Iceland | public research university | 7700 undergraduates; 1000 graduates | Reykjavik, Iceland. The Challenge: Provide a Diverse Selection of Online Summer Courses in a Short Timeframe. With high unemployment due to coronavirus and fewer summer jobs available to students than normal, Iceland’s Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture provided funding to the University of Iceland to host online summer courses.

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edX

JULY 27, 2020

As academic institutions around the world prepare to transition to new models of teaching and learning next term and beyond, many face the same core challenges and questions around effectively integrating and structuring online learning experiences.

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JULY 20, 2020

According to Pew Research , over 14 million Americans lost their jobs between February and May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Maggie, a young professional living in Nashville, TN, was laid off from her administrative job in the early weeks of the U.S. shutdown, she became a courier for the delivery service platform Postmates to help make ends meet.

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JULY 13, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the globe turned to edX Online Campus to help ease the emergency transition to delivering digital learning content to students. As the next academic term approaches and organizations begin to imagine a “ new normal, ” it’s clear that a sustainable online learning strategy will be a top priority.

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edX

JUNE 26, 2020

Lessons from Community Engagement Leader Rachel Kamen. By nature, Rachel Kamen’s role at Postmates is to put its people first. Rachel heads up community engagement on the company’s public policy team with the goal of bettering the Postmates platform and Fleet experience by elevating the voices of the thousands of Postmates contract couriers that deliver local food and merchandise in cities across the U.S.

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edX

JUNE 8, 2020

E-learning can be a powerful tool and benefit for employees across your workforce. The wave of economic disruption from COVID-19 across every industry has expedited and underscored the need for solutions designed specifically for your at-risk workers—employees whose jobs may be endangered as a result of technological changes, declining demand for certain skill sets, and challenges posed by the pandemic.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The world will remember 2020 as the year when everyone from the office suddenly started working from home. While nobody can predict the future and offices are not disappearing for good, rapid economic disruption from COVID-19 and remote connectivity suggest that work patterns have permanently changed. Remote work that was the exception but is now a rule requires different and new approaches.

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MAY 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored both the risk many job functions face during severe economic change, alongside technological changes like automation, and the skills and disciplines that remain resilient during such changes. As part of our ongoing commitment to support organizations in identifying and growing the skills and capabilities needed to compete, edX has launched a new program specifically for workers, businesses, and institutions impacted by COVID-19.

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edX

APRIL 30, 2020

The benefits of online learning go far beyond flexibility. Learn more about how to fully harness this powerful way of learning, from offering the opportunity to build valuable hybrid skill sets to creating lasting connections between students around the world. Empower your students to join thousands of other learners from across the globe in an online learning community: Learn more about our initiative with Harvard, MIT, and other partner institutions to offer free access to select courses throu

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APRIL 15, 2020

In an effort to help as many universities and students as possible across the globe affected by COVID-19, edX and our founding partners, Harvard and MIT, are joining together to launch an initiative for accredited academic institutions around the world. Through June 30, 2020, any accredited academic institution in need of additional learning resources can use this program to gain access to a free catalog of high-quality, relevant courses and programs from participating top universities.

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edX

APRIL 10, 2020

Whether by design or circumstance, more and more organizations have at least some portion of their workforces working remotely. Especially for those who have suddenly found themselves in this uncharted territory, we’ve put together a collection of key considerations and tips for navigating the shift to remote work and delivering learning that keeps remote employees productive, engaged, and moving forward.

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edX

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Your industry is evolving, your business needs are changing, and your talent pool is shrinking. With rapid innovation comes an ever expanding need to stay up to speed in areas that keep your business competitive, and nowhere is that more evident than in IT management and computer science. Even at the most junior, entry-level positions, there is a growing skills gap that makes it increasingly difficult to find qualified candidates, and even harder (and more expensive) to hire them.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As digitization continues to transform companies across industries, organizations are finding new ways to grow and adapt their workforces. To source candidates with data, digital, and strategic skill sets, Boston Globe Media Partners (BGMP) is collaborating with edX to offer job interviews for select MicroMasters® program certificate holders for key roles with its The Boston Globe, Boston.com, and STAT brands.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Digitization and automation continue to rapidly transform the needs of today’s workforce. Your employees feel pressure to keep up , but continuously updating, diversifying, and building new skill sets is daunting and counters the traditional mental model of education. The pace of change is faster than ever while the skill sets that set companies and workers apart increasingly cannot be obtained through a traditional degree or career path.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Business leaders increasingly understand that supporting workforce wellbeing — happiness — is critical for both individual employees and the organization. Balanced, inclusive companies see higher retention rates, lower absenteeism, increased innovation, higher quality of work, and other tangible benefits.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

True, impactful online content is much more than a video recording of a lecture delivered to 30 in-person students. Online learning is a unique environment with its own distinct strengths and opportunities for engagement.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In a surprising study , Google discovered that its highest performing teams aren’t those stacked with scientists, but interdisciplinary groups heavily benefitting from employees bringing strong soft skills to the collaborative process. Further, additional research found that it’s these soft skills, like good communication and empathetic leadership, not hard skills, that comprise the top predictors of success within the company.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As technology reshapes the future of work, workers are struggling to remain relevant. In an edX survey conducted last year, only one fifth of respondents considered the education from their college major to be translatable to their current field and more than one third experienced a lack of proficiency in at least one new skill area or subject area of a current or past job.

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