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  February 19, 2020

  Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

  The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding to fuel its next stage of growth. Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 150,000 different online learning courses from business analytics to ukulele […]

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  July 23, 2019

  5 Key Learning Management System (LMS) Trends in 2019

  With the growth of learning organizations, the rising demand for experience-focused, employee-centric processes and the mounting need for intelligent employer branding, it is only natural that the Learning Management System (LMS) as we know it is changing. In a world that is hyper-connected and trend-sensitive, what are the trends that will affect the LMS space […]

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  July 16, 2019

  How training bolsters relationships and builds EQ

  Employers have long seen the need for training employees in hard skills. In recent years, soft skills like leadership and communication have crept into learning and development initiatives, too. Some employers have looked to L&D to increase employees’ emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) ⁠— a trend that can give staff members a better sense […]

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  June 25, 2019

  What Everyone Should Know About Managing Gen Z

  Carrie Viohl, the co-owner of The Square, a restaurant in Moultrie, Georgia, manages a team of Gen Zers (those born between 1997 and 2012, the oldest of whom are just entering the workforce). But she wasn’t optimistic about hiring them at first. “Restaurant life is hard. It’s demanding work. We went through hundreds of employees […]

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