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Udacity opens up Nanodegree program offerings amid coronavirus outbreak

CLO Magazine

These scholarships will provide individuals who have been laid off with technical training and access to Udacity’s 40 Nanodegree programs on topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital marketing, product management, data analysis, cloud computing, autonomous vehicles and programming.

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Reskilling: Radical or realistic?

CLO Magazine

In many cases, that involves learning programs in high-growth industries — like cloud computing or cybersecurity — that would completely transform a worker’s career path. Survey respondents cited the need for training and the cost of training as the two factors that were most likely to keep them from looking for new jobs.

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Cybersecurity Training Often a Tangled Web

CLO Magazine

The Role of CLO. Providing that solution often falls to the CLO who can also play a role in bringing together the needs of IT and business. All this prevention doesn’t come cheap but Robinson urged companies to invest because the cost of not investing is even greater as this week’s ransomware attacks illustrate.

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Too Little Progress

CLO Magazine

In November, General Electric committed to interviewing any Massachusetts resident who completes a MicroMasters program in supply chain management, cybersecurity, cloud computing or artificial intelligence. A MicroMasters from edX costs between $600 and $1,500. The concept is interesting and is getting employers’ attention.

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It takes a village

CLO Magazine

Many of these resources are being offered at no cost to consumers. The post It takes a village appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media. Learning and talent management software company Cornerstone OnDemand Inc., The pandemic] is unfortunately the perfect storm for this.”.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

People need to learn more, learn faster – yet the C-Level (including your CLO) seem to be making moves that are counter to that. Essentially telling the CEO – we’ll produce more and better quality – but it’s not going to cost any more. So in 2010, you are going to be asked to produce faster, lower cost learning solutions.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The availability of cost-effective resources to facilitate wide collaboration (including open source software that enables wikis, discussion groups, chat and even web conferencing) presents the chance for organizations to reconsider the effectiveness of the performance support being offered to their people. Here's what came up.