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A Cloud Guru, an online training start-up, has been acquired by Pluralsight for $2 billion, one of the largest deals ever for an Australian tech company.

Guild and Pluralsight see opportunity in the skills gap, Pyn spotlights the need for hybrid working comms, and Microsoft firms up network security offerings.

Six key ingredients for modern workforce learning and development On this Learning at Work Week 2021, we take a look at the six key ingredients for modern workforce learning and development. The modern workforce is more culturally and generationally diverse than ever before. It’s not uncommon to find as many as five different generations of employees present in larger organisations, ranging from baby boomers all the way through to millennials. However, judging by most of the new learning and ...

Thoma Bravo bets big on cybersecurity in Proofpoint buy, Salesforce introduces integrated learning with Salesforce Learning Paths and more news.

LinkedIn Debuts LinkedIn Learning Hub, IBM Doubles Down on Ethical AI and More News PHOTO: Yulia Rozanova | pexels LinkedIn announced plans to launch its LinkedIn Learning Hub, a skills-building platform currently in beta, in the second half of 2021 this week. James Raybould, senior director of product, LinkedIn Learning and Glint, described it as “an intelligent skill building platform” in the official blog announcement. Three basic capacities, all included in Learning Hub, are cru...

Oracle burst through the leaderboard this year in Forresters Wave for Digital Experience Platforms PHOTO: Peter Kaminski Oracle has announced Oracle Journeys, a new platform that aims to deliver a more intuitive, personalized, and streamlined employee experience within Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). Oracle Journeys is meant to help organizations create a one-stop shop for employees as they navigate all aspects of work and complete complex tasks. The new capabilities should...

Growing up, Kirthi Chintalapuri wanted to become an entrepreneur. “I was enamoured by the growth potential it presented, “ she says. After completing her MBA and working in the IT sector, she saw an opportunity in the cooperation training space. Bootstrapping funds from her savings and taking

PHOTO: Adam Satria Imagine you are a junior employee who has just been assigned your first big project. You’re excited about the opportunity, but it’s a little nerve wracking too. Without any prior experience youre struggling to figure out how to organize your time. But then a message pops up in your Microsoft Teams channel. Your line manager has just sent you a handful of learning resources that walk you through exactly how to run the project. Some of the resources are internal com...

Uncertainty Reigns About the Start of the Hybrid Work Era and More HR Tech News PHOTO: Annie Spratt on Unsplash The industry talk has been incessant that remote work is here to stay. According to PwC’s latest U.S. Remote Work Survey, more than half of U.S. executives (52%) believe employee productivity has gone up since before the pandemic. More than a third of their workers agree. At the same time, many aspects of what post-pandemic work will look like are in flux. For example, fewer tha...

Im proud of him for just sticking to it. >> reporter: hearing is a gift, along with our other senses, an incredible function of our bodies. that doesnt mean deafness is a curse. just ask super bowl champion derrick coleman. or the ph.d. students in dr. petittos lab whose research is changing how we understand learning and development. like dr. petitto says, people might discriminate between sign language and the spoken language, but the brain does not. for "vital signs," im dr. sanjay gupta.