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Corporate Online Courses and NanoDegrees: Pluses & Minuses

The Performance Improvement Blog

Starbuck’s is providing its employees with the opportunity to earn a degree (at considerable expense to the company) by taking online courses from Arizona State University. This is good for the employees that take advantage of these programs and good for the economy which needs skilled and knowledgeable workers.

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Future-proofing skills in the technology industry

Learning Pool

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. This may mean up and re-skilling entire workforces.

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6 Essential Steps for a Successful Digital Transformation of Your Corporate Training Programs

EI Design

The push to digitally transform corporate training programs has been building up and COVID-19 has accelerated it further. Over the last decade, the urgency of companies to undertake Digital Transformation of their corporate training programs has gradually mounted. Background. Step 1: Alignment. Don’t choose a platform first.

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3 Corporate Training Program Trends in 2021: What Top Organizations Are Doing to Build Resilience

KnowledgeCity

Corporate training programs are nothing new to even the most inexperienced human resources manager. Corporate training programs serve many purposes. More and more, however, corporate training programs are looking to include content that is useful to the worker beyond his or her current employer’s doors.

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What remote work revealed about the role of onboarding

CLO Magazine

However, in the past year of remote work, onboarding programs have been impoverished and the in-person events have been replaced by tedious web conferences or simple e-learning focused on policies and procedures. The time for this imprinting in knowledge workers might be anywhere from 30 to 90 days.

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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

If you search the events online, you will find that each result provides a slightly different list of key events. The machine requires instructions—a program—to perform this task. His colleague Ada Lovelace writes the first program to work on his prototype. digital assistants for enterprise knowledge workers.

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3 Reasons why online training is cost-effective

Matrix

Since it’s so hard to see crystal clear ROI for how more knowledgeable workers increase company profitability, training budgets are among the first to be cut in hard times. Why online training is cost-effective. Going online might be the perfect middle ground. Trees are destroyed and ink wasted. Faster turnaround.

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