EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Genpact | May 24, 2021
To help under-resourced entrepreneurs develop critical skills for fulfillment in today's challenging and competitive economic environment, three leading organizations are coming together to expand the depth of content available during a free online learning platform designed to enable business success and, in turn, help spur community-based economic revival.
Genpact, a worldwide professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation; EdCast, a pacesetter in online corporate learning and upskilling; and Positive Planet US, a non-profit organization that promotes inclusive and sustainable economic process and employment, have joined forces to lend their respective expertise to support entrepreneurs and help them amplify their impact on the communities that they serve.
The partnership adds essential learning resources for startup owners to Genpact's Adapt and Rise e-learning platform, developed and built with EdCast. In an attempt to democratize access to critical business skills, Genpact opened the program to the general public in 2020, sharing a subset of its learning content from its own highly successful internal continuous learning platform, Genome, which is inspired by work with MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence.
Genpact launched Adapt and Rise during the pandemic to offer all professionals a free platform to upskill, reskill, and thrive in an increasingly digital economy and help companies become more resilient with adaptive, agile workforces. The challenges of the last year have further underscored how businesses increasingly need professionals with a mixture of hard and soft skills to achieve success in today's business environment. For this reason, knowledgeable learning path may include building digital skills, like AI (AI) and analytics, paired with training in agile methodologies, change management, and storytelling.
The site builds on Genpact's expertise and therefore the collective intelligence of its quite 90,000 employees honed from delivering real-world change for many companies. quite 10 million learning hours were logged at Genpact within the last year.
Positive Planet features a highly successful diary of helping millions round the world, helping create sustainable development solutions for disadvantaged populations, especially women and youth. Launched 23 years ago with the mission to form the planet more positive economically, socially, and environmentally, it's helped quite 11 million people leave poverty behind. Its work strives for a more equal society, helping underserved communities – independent of their race, gender, background – create their own jobs and prosperity through entrepreneurship.
Positive Planet brings new content to the platform created for the unique needs of entrepreneurs, including curricula in such areas as sales strategy and business development, growth and operations, and marketing, legal, accounting, and finance for little businesses. Adapting business models during a difficult economy makes continuous learning and reskilling vital, and these learning paths offer the precise skills needed to create and grow a startup. The success of those businesses brings benefits to local communities as entrepreneurship can provide new career journeys also as economic revival.
Learning journeys from Genpact available on Adapt and Rise cover in-demand skills, including AI , change management, customer experience, design thinking, storytelling, digital business strategy, and other people leadership. Combining those courses with Positive Planet's range of learning curriculum for business planning for little business gives entrepreneurs access to a breadth of experience that's critical to success, but is just too often difficult to seek out in one place.
Powered by EdCast's award-winning learning and talent experience platform, Adapt and Rise offers on-demand learning at an important time.
About Genpact
Genpact may be a global professional services firm that creates business transformation real. Led by our purpose -- the relentless pursuit of a world that works better for people -- we drive digital-led innovation and digitally enabled intelligent operations for our clients. Guided by our experience reinventing and running thousands of processes for many clients, many of them Global Fortune 500 companies, we drive real-world transformation at scale. we expect with design, dream in digital, and solve problems with data and analytics. Combining our expertise in end-to-end operations and our AI-based platform, Genpact Cora, we specialise in the small print – all 90,000+ of us. From ny to New Delhi , and quite 30 countries in between, we connect every dot, reimagine every process, and reinvent the ways companies work. we all know that reimagining each step from start to end creates better business outcomes. Whatever it's , we'll be there with you – accelerating digital transformation to make bold, lasting results – because transformation happens here.
About EdCast
EdCast offers a unified platform designed to work end-to-end employee experience journeys spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is employed internationally by organizations starting from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and governments. With EdCast's platforms, our customers are ready to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCast's offerings include its Talent Experience Platform, Spark for SMBs, EdCast Marketplace and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast may be a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient.
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ONLINE EDUCATION
Oracle | November 16, 2021
Oracle today announced the launch of the Oracle Academy Career Center, a virtual hub where students and educators gain free access to professional training, technical certifications, academic curriculum, and experiential learning resources for the classroom and beyond. Tailored for higher education, the Oracle Academy Career Center offers learning pathways across a range of professions, including engineering and development, human resources, finance, and sales.
"The need for computing skills spans diverse industries, and as research shows, professionals with those in-demand skills enjoy higher paying jobs. The Oracle Academy Career Center provides job-focused learning resources plus free cloud-centered courses built on a foundation of academic, industry-relevant knowledge for a global audience. Today's announcement aims to empower the emerging generation of innovators and leaders who will define the future of business and technology."
Elizabeth Snyder, Oracle's Vice President of Human Resources and Philanthropy
The new Oracle Academy Career Center is a collaborative effort with Oracle University, Oracle Learning Library, and Oracle developer teams to tailor professional training and cloud-centered courses, normally available only to professionals working in the field, to students whose higher education institutions are members of Oracle Academy. The offering helps learners worldwide make connections between Oracle Academy's core academic curriculum and career opportunities by providing professional training and a chance to explore Oracle professional certifications.
"There is a universal need for qualified cloud professionals," said Dr. Wen Pei, Dean of College of Management, Chung Hua University, Taiwan. "The Oracle Academy Career Center enables our graduates to meet that need and be prepared for well-paying jobs. We calibrate our teaching to real-world requirements, and through Oracle Academy resources, our teachers and students gain free Oracle Cloud access to learn and develop industry-leading skills."
Aligned with Oracle's focus on cloud, Oracle Academy also released new curriculum, "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations." The curriculum introduces students to basic Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) concepts and terminology. The course offers lesson slides, corresponding videos and demonstrations, hands-on labs, and midterm and final exams. Through the Oracle Academy Cloud Program, learners in member institutions also may gain free access to Oracle Cloud.
"In the United States, digital literacy continues to be a challenge," said Denise Hobbs, Senior Director, Oracle Academy North America. "Colleges in low-income and rural communities often lack the resources to offer computing courses. Our ready-to-use cloud curriculum, teaching materials, and career center make it easy for educators to offers students the foundational technology knowledge and skills that are universally in high demand across jobs."
Today's new offerings follow a period of significant growth and reach for Oracle Academy. During the past fiscal year, Oracle Academy worked with more than 16,000 institutions across more than 130 countries to advance computing education, impacting millions of students.
About Oracle Academy
As Oracle's global, philanthropic educational program, Oracle Academy advances computing education around the world to increase knowledge, innovation, skills development, and diversity in technology fields. The program engages with more than 16,000 educational institutions and educators in more than 130 countries, helping millions of students become college and career ready.
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud.
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PR Newswire | July 15, 2020
AKA, an artificial intelligence development company, announced a function called "Academy Mode", developed for Pepper to serve in the classroom despite the current situation of COVID-19. Academy Mode is designed specifically for the Softbank Robotics Humanoid robot, Pepper, to fit classroom settings and will be released in Korea, Japan, and China's market first.Since entering Japan's market in 2015, AKA has been working together continuously with Softbank Robotics Japan. In May 2019, AKA became an official reseller of Softbank Robotics China for the Pepper robot. Since then, AKA has been actively developing different functions for Pepper to work better in the English education environment. Current functions include Muse AI free chat, Muse Learner's Chat, and Academy Mode. While the first two are essential for Pepper to converse freely in different topics, the third one enables Pepper to actively engage in classroom interactions and be used as a teaching assistant.
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