Job Readiness Marketplace: A new strategy for Edtech, skills, and learning systems
There are two parts to this story. First, EdTech stands for educational technology, which refers to online learning in higher education and K-12/primary education. It has never meant to represent corporate, despite vendors and some of my fellow analysts thinking otherwise. Secondly, vendors in the EdTech sector (and there are those who play corporate too)…
Assigned Learning – An outdated modality
In preparation for this post, which is likely to stir emotions on both sides (supporters of assigned learning vs those who are not), I went about and did an exploration of various sites on the web. I stayed clear of academic journals and academic articles, because academics are not the ones taking the online learning…
A.I., XR, Digital Twin – Which will drive Learning Technology?
“It’s a terrible product.” “None of us were like, this is really useful.” Those two statements are from the co-founders of OpenAI, who have created the hottest generative AI tool: ChatGPT. The solution as it exists right now, is a serious work in progress. Numerous articles have been published showing its shortcomings, from “declaring love…
The Learning Library
For those folks under the age of 35, a library is a place where one goes to find this ancient things known as books. And Audio Books, and lots of index cards – do they still use them? Growing up, the only place to find and read books, magazines was to go to the library.…
Embrace Training in ED and HigherEd
I’m sure it happens to you. There you are at work, when you ask yourself, how would Plato handle it? What would Peter the Great do in this situation with your missing lunch, that was there just an hour ago waving at you in the fridge? Perhaps in the next few weeks you will visit…
The First Early Trend – 2023 – “Confusion”
It’s the new year, and that can only mean, one thing – early trends. Oh, and new terminology by vendors, because after all, you can’t roll out new solutions, without coming up with terms nobody understands or can figure out. For this post, one of the early trends will be covered, then the week thereafter,…
FindContent.io – The New Way to Find Content
Happy days are here again, oh happy days are here again; blah blah, blah blah ..BLAH. I would sing the rest, but as you can see, I forgot the words, plus I’m lazy to look them up. Anyway, the day is here – the launch of FindContent.io, my newest platform, to help YOU find the…
Expect 2 C in Learning Systems 2021
Some of you are thinking, why is he using “2” and “C” as the title of the piece? Well, why not? I mean, when you consider that “communities” in learning systems are roaring back (although in all honesty, they never left), as though it is some whiz and wow thing, having a “2” to represent…
The Future of Work and E-Learning
The future of work. It’s being pushed out everywhere you turn. How COVID19 will speed up the future of work. How COVID19 is changing the future of work. How the future of work is a digital one, which is the next industrial revolution. You hear about companies applying the future of work, by allowing some…
Frontline Workers + Online Learning – Does it work?
I don’t know about you, but I remember you from my first job. I was 16 years old. I was hired by a department chain (name not to be released because they are out of business now, and I can’t fully recall it). Rather than placing me into the music section, a dream for any 16-year-old,…
