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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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Gaming in Corporate Training: Asset or Liability for Employees?

TOPYX LMS

Twenty-nine percent of game players are over the age of 50. Forty-two percent of all players are women and women over age 18 are one of the industry’s fastest growing demographics. In the article Game-Based Learning for the Corporate World, Lorri Freifeld shared some interesting facts that challenge this perspective. She wrote….

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. Audio podcasts on MP3 players free learners from looking at a screen. If you feel smug about hitting the gym before going to work and sitting all day, you shouldn’t. Remember podcasts?

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How to Encourage Physical Activity as Part of a Learning Strategy

Absorb LMS

Getting up and walking around, or working at a standing desk rather than seated, should be a priority for desk-bound knowledge workers. Audio podcasts on MP3 players free learners from looking at a screen. If you feel smug about hitting the gym before going to work and sitting all day, you shouldn’t. Remember podcasts?

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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

2011: IBM Watson defeats the best human players in the popular television game show Jeopardy! digital assistants for enterprise knowledge workers. Many doubt that a machine could really have performed so well and accuse IBM of cheating. The computer is “too human” to be credible. sales process recommendation and automation.

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Create a Can-Do Learning Culture

CLO Magazine

In today’s increasingly knowledge-driven, cost-competitive work world, many organizations need their managers to continue to develop and apply their advanced technical knowledge — not only to properly direct the work and manage the people who report to them, but to help their team solve complex problems.

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12 eLearning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer

It's going to be tough for me-too tools to push out these players in the corporate market. 7 - Niche Tools Emerge and Get Traction in Niches So the caveat to the above statement about the big players getting bigger is that I believe we will see more and more niche tools get traction. 2009 is going to be a big year for this issue.