Over the past five years, the shift from degrees to skills has been gaining momentum across sectors. First, a few large tech companies, including Google, started to hire more people in tech roles on the basis of their demonstrated competencies and potential to learn on the job. Around the same time, the coding academy sector started to experience tremendous growth. Read more.

Over the past year, Florida Virtual School (FLVS), Florida’s statewide, public online secondary school, has dealt with a massive data breach, a series of ongoing disputes with former employees, and a series of allegations against the school’s former attorney. If the problems at FLVS’s have been slow to come to the surface and garnered little media attention outside Orlando where the school’s... Read more.

On January 17, 2018, Coursera announced the launch of a new health vertical. Offering a broad portfolio of health-related courses from the world’s top universities, it has been curated to help address the current shortage of skilled workers in the healthcare sector. In many respects, it is no surprise that Coursera’s first major announcement of 2019 is a suite of courses... Read more.

In recent years, a few stories have popped up regarding efforts to bring broadband internet to rural areas via TV broadcast frequencies. Among these, Microsoft has made the biggest splash with its Airband initiative. Other groups, such as Connect Americans Now (CAN) and RTO Wireless have also been moving the dial forward. The technology, however, remains fairly unknown, and... Read More.

In this four-part series about the corporate eLearning realities of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR), I’ve been exploring both the future promise and the current state of how these digital technologies can impact the way learning and training happens in wide array of businesses. This third article in the series takes a closer look at how companies use augmented reality learning. Read more.