Gen AI and Your Workforce
Way too many companies think that L&D will put together a plan, and then provide learning to their employees in a quick fashion. They ignore that it takes time. Planning. Strategy. Rollout, and the list goes on. With generative AI, companies are adding it without truly investigating its impact, not just now, but down the…
Coursera and Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream launch free nationwide skills training...
By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer The pandemic profoundly reshaped the skills and employment landscape, accelerating digitization, displacing workers, and worsening social inequities. With 149 million new digital jobs projected globally by 2025, the skills gap will only continue to widen as businesses and workers face the challenge of reskilling amid rapid transformation. To address…
Coursera partners with the California State Library to launch free statewide job training program
By Kevin Mills, Head of Government Partnerships While vaccination rates climb and schools and businesses slowly open back up, unemployment rates remain a challenge, even in the largest economies. California has the highest GDP of any U.S. state, yet the technology epicenter is also tied for the highest unemployment rate in the country at 7.5%.…
Coursera expands state-wide workforce development partnership in Missouri
By Kevin Mills, Head of Public Sector Partnerships In early 2020, we launched the Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative to help governments around the world respond to the unemployment crisis caused by the pandemic and automation. Through the program, governments from over 25 U.S. states and 100 countries provided immediate support to displaced workers with free…
Announcing the Coursera Global Skills Report 2021
By Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO Today, I’m excited to introduce Coursera’s third annual Global Skills Report, an in-depth look at the state of skills globally. This year’s study draws on performance data since the pandemic’s onset from over 77 million learners on Coursera to benchmark business, technology, and data skills proficiency for over 100 countries.…
Employees and Your Learning System
The other day, I went to Tombstone, the tourist trap of the Old West. Of all the amazing things you can see, and get, uh, ripped off (when did the Old West start pricing a meal like it was Vegas?), was the number of reenactors, walking around. I should note, that there is one street,…
Blue-Collar Workers Need Not Apply (Learning new skills via e-learning)
Upskilling. Re-Skilling. Skils Development. It sounds good. Heck, who wouldn’t want to receive learning/training on skill improvement OR on learning a new skill based on their interests OR the possibility of leadership development or a job role tied to a set of specific skills. Go to nearly any learning system on the market who offers…
Latest Takeaways from Craig Weiss
It has been a wild week from the acquisition of Saba by Cornerstone to the ability to compare systems in detail on FindAnLMS, to the Coronavirus and the usage of Microsoft Teams as part of the L&D experience. A lot of readers and folks on various social media have asked about my perspective on a…
