TALENT DEVELOPMENT
EdCast | October 14, 2021
At its 7th Annual Future of Work Summit today, EdCast, the talent experience platform leader, announced an integration with Credly, the digital credentialing leader. The integration will help joint customers leverage digital credentials and weave them seamlessly into their learning and talent development journeys.
With this integration, joint customers of EdCast and Credly will be able to:
Award digital credentials via Credly based on content completion on the EdCast platform
Import the verified digital credentials issued from Credly into their EdCast learning Skills Passport, which acts as a single source of truth about the learner’s upskilling journey
Gain insights about their workforce by analyzing their learners’ skills data and take a data-driven approach to provide the right opportunities to their employees
Allow learners to share Credly badges and certificates to a range of networks, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, thereby giving greater visibility to the employee and to the business
"Digital credentials provide a foundation for organizations to build a data-driven talent management strategy, based on verified skills," said Jarin Schmidt, Chief Experience Officer of Credly. "As host of the largest, most connected digital credential network, Credly prioritizes accessibility of credential-issuing by way of numerous integrations. This new integration with EdCast further increases our ability to provide clients with a seamless experience in issuing digital badges and helps paint a more complete picture of their workforce."
“We are very excited about this partnership and the enhanced value provided to joint EdCast and Credly customers. With our Credly integration, we are able to bring a world-class digital credential network to the EdCast TXP platform. This integration will provide organizations with valuable and actionable data and insights into how recipients leverage issued badges and credentials.”
Bhaskar Deka, SVP and Global Head of Products & AI at EdCast
About EdCast
EdCast is an award-winning platform for end-to-end employee experience journeys spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Our customers span G2000 companies to small businesses and government organizations. With EdCast’s platform, our customers are able 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.
About Credly
Credly is helping the world speak a common language about people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Thousands of employers, training organizations, associations, certification programs, and workforce development initiatives use Credly to help individuals translate their learning experiences into professional opportunities using trusted, portable, digital credentials. Credly empowers organizations to attract, engage, develop, and retain talent with enterprise-class tools that generate data-driven insights to address skills gaps and highlight opportunities through an unmatched global network of credential issuers.
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ONLINE EDUCATION
Panopto | May 17, 2021
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), a philanthropic local area of schooling pioneers and trailblazers committed to progressing advanced instructing and learning, and Panopto, the main video the executives framework supplier for advanced education and enormous ventures, reported today a multi-year vital association uniting Panopto's industry mastery in secure video creation and the board, and OLC's expert turn of events, instructing and learning assets to extend the utilization of video-based learning inside the association.
With the fast development in online distance learning over the previous year, video the executives frameworks have become fundamental innovation for advanced education. A large number of staff and understudies are utilizing these new video apparatuses to advance and develop their teaching methods. As pioneers in on the web, mixed, and advanced training, OLC consistently looks for new freedoms to execute and demonstrate imaginative employments of innovation that feature the proof based practices broadly utilized by staff, originators and understudies in their instructive work.
"Scaling viable techniques for the plan and conveyance of value on the web and mixed learning is brought into the world of remixing and reconsidering both our practices and our joint efforts, expanding after existing systems inside a quickly evolving scene," said Angela Gunder, Chief Academic Officer of the OLC. "By cooperating with industry pioneers and giving criticism on the use of their items in the work we do, we can give setting and viewpoint on the different use cases across the field, assisting with illuminating the creation regarding item guides that middle the requirements of instructors and understudies the same."
As a shared local area of instructors, trend-setters, and supporting technologists, the OLC fills in as an ideal space for different points of view and basic talk around how to best assistance understudies arrive at their fullest potential and help establishments discover efficiencies in work processes.
"We are lowered that the OLC is joining forces with Panopto," said Dave Neway, Vice President of Marketing at Panopto. "OLC is a generally regarded and fundamental supporter of the progression of advanced education – which makes Panopto an ideal fit for OLC's expert improvement encounters. We anticipate engaging their individuals with the best video encounters."
About Online Learning Consortium
The Online Learning Consortium (OLC) is a communitarian local area of schooling pioneers and trend-setters, devoted to propelling quality advanced instructing and learning encounters intended to reach and connect with the cutting edge student – anybody, anyplace, whenever. OLC motivates development and quality through a broad arrangement of assets, including, best-practice distributions, quality benchmarking, driving edge guidance, local area driven meetings, professional based and observational examination and master direction. The developing OLC people group incorporates employees, heads, coaches, informative planners, and other learning experts, just as instructive establishments, proficient social orders and corporate ventures.
About Panopto
Panopto helps organizations and colleges make secure, accessible video libraries of their institutional information. Since 2007, the organization has been a pioneer in video catch programming, video the executives, and inside-video-search innovation. Today, Panopto's video the board framework is the biggest store of master learning recordings on the planet. Settled in Seattle, with workplaces in Pittsburgh, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, Panopto has gotten industry acknowledgment for its advancement, quick development, and friends culture.
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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
prnewswire | January 05, 2021
At the point when the pandemic constrained U.S. schools and colleges online this previous spring, most universities did as such with workforce who had no earlier internet educating experience. At that point, staff and managers said they were most needing support for their recently distant understudies, just as more prominent admittance to computerized materials.
"Colleges and universities were clear that they needed support with digital materials and training for teaching in online and hybrid formats, and partnerships have been key in these challenging times," said Fernando Bleichmar, EVP and General Manager for U.S. Higher Education at Cengage. "We've been able to help schools bridge the online learning gap with quality digital materials, services, and faculty and administrator training from leading online learning experts to build a better learning experience."
As the pandemic shut grounds, higher ed pioneers went to Cengage Unlimited for Institutions for reasonable admittance to quality, computerized learning materials at scale, just as scholastic administrations to move courses on the web and expert improvement assets to help staff instruct on the web. Collaborating with Online Learning Consortium, Cengage offers bootcamps, available time and altered trainings for Institutional clients.
Organizations have developed by 50% since April, and in excess of 125 foundations presently accomplice straightforwardly with Cengage to offer Cengage Unlimited at scale.
One of those foundations is Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana, one of the biggest junior college frameworks in the nation with 90,000 understudies. Ivy Tech utilized subsidizing dispensed to the organization under the CARES Act to furnish understudies with Cengage materials, and access scholastic administrations and expert advancement uphold for teachers.
"Even prior to the pandemic, students struggled with the cost of course materials. The CARES Act funding provided a special opportunity to help students who have plenty of barriers in their way already. They've been the most impacted by COVID. Many of them have lost jobs, are single parents and they have a lot to deal with. Being able to provide them with free access to learning materials is a tremendous opportunity," said Sue Ellspermann, President at Ivy Tech.
Since it dispatched two years back, Cengage Unlimited has helped almost 3 million understudies save more than $270 million on course materials, and almost $70 million of that saving comes straightforwardly from institutional associations. Cengage Unlimited gives understudies admittance to in excess of 22,000 advanced assets including eTextbooks, online schoolwork stages, study aides, and school achievement and vocation uphold.
Cengage Unlimited for Institutions gives reasonable course materials at scale through a substance permit model. The permit model conveys esteem dependent on a foundation's exceptional execution and enlistment needs. Notwithstanding reasonable materials, Cengage Unlimited for Institutions offers versatile scholarly administrations and expert advancement to assist workforce and managers with mixture and web based learning.
About Cengage
Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. As the largest US-based provider of teaching and learning materials for higher ed, we offer valuable options at affordable price points. Our industry-leading initiatives include Cengage Unlimited, the first-of-its-kind all-access digital subscription service. We embrace innovation to create learning experiences that build confidence and momentum toward the future students want. Headquartered in Boston, Cengage also serves K-12, library and workforce training markets around the world.
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