Ever since the pandemic has struck the world, digital learning has taken a lead in various ways. In the new normal as teams are working remotely, the dynamics of future jobs has undergone a change, due to which there is an urgent need for employees to reskill and upskill.
The need to reskill and upskill has increased due to changed economic conditions, business transformation, and a need for skills to meet the demands of increased use of technology in business processes.
In the new remote-work culture, for example, according to Gartner, supply chain professionals have had to upskill to learn new technology as companies digitize their supply chains. Similarly, sales workers, who used to meet face-to-face with prospective clients, have upskilled to learn new digital outreach tools and methods for generating sales.
In such a scenario, e-learning platforms have come as a great solution offering various online courses for skilling and training in new-age technologies, like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), data-science, and other networking and communication solutions.
Here are four e-learning platforms that are providing upskilling opportunities for today´s employees.
Skillsoft
Skillsoft delivers online learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge. Leveraging immersive, engaging content, Skillsoft enables organizations to unlock the potential in their people and build teams with the skills they need for success.
Skillsoft’s Percipio, an immersive learning experience platform is designed to make learning easier, more accessible, and more effective. Percipio dramatically increases learner engagement, leading to higher confidence in skills and abilities applied on the job.
With a wide array of topical coverage, it offers learners multiple modalities of content to choose, including watch, read, listen, and practice. It has the industry’s leading collection of 1,650 audio books with relevant strategy and leadership titles.
The Percipio mobile app delivers access to learning resources including audio books anytime and any way users want, even offline. Percipio Voice enables learners to use voice commands to search for content within the platform.
Udemy
With a mission to improve lives through learning, Udemy helps students, businesses, and governments gain the skills they need to compete in today’s economy. 35 million students are mastering new skills from 57,000 expert instructors, teaching over 130,000 online courses in topics from programming and data science to leadership and team building.
For companies, Udemy for Business offers an employee training and development platform with subscription access to 7,000+ courses, learning analytics, as well as the ability to host and distribute their own content.
Udemy for Government is designed to upskill workers and prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow. 80% of Fortune 100 companies trust Udemy for employee upskilling. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Brazil, India, Ireland, and Turkey. Their investors include Insight Partners, Prosus (Naspers Ventures), Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, and Benesse Holdings.
Unacademy
Classroom education in India has stifled many brilliant minds. Unacademy, the Indian education platform is on a mission to change that. In a span of 6 months, over 300,000 students have benefited from over 2,400 online lessons and specialized courses on cracking various competitive examinations.
The platform boasts of some of the top educators in the country, including Kiran Bedi, India’s first woman IPS officer and now the Governor of Pondicherry. With over two million views every month, the platform is reaching out to people in the remotest corners of the country.
They have courses on several topics in multiple languages so the whole world can benefit from these courses. India is home to 19% of the world’s youth and Unacademy claims to empowering them to take on the world in a manner that classrooms will never do.
Coursera
Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to anyone, anywhere. It is now a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 71 million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future.
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More than 200 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, specializations, certificates, and degree programs. Thousands of companies trust the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera for Government equips government employees and citizens with in-demand skills to build a competitive workforce.
As the need for upskilling employees comes into the spotlight with remote working becoming the need of the hour, e-learning platforms will prove crucial. Business as well as government organizations have a chance to take a few steps closer to digitalization, and these e-learning platforms will help.
