Edition 14
Interviews
Knowmads: the future of work and education

The nomadic knowledge workers are better equipped to adapt and bring their skills in a world engulfed with accelerating technological, social, and economic change. 45% of the Western workforce will be knowmadic by the year 2020. The challenge for education is to prepare students for future work under this profile. Interview with John Moravec, ‎Founder and Principal Member of Education Futures LLC.

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Research & Surveys
Education, Training – and Market Needs

Here are some of the things that The Company of Thought has been thinking about recently – notably issues involved in meeting today’s education and training market needs, along with micro-learning.

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Interviews
Khan Academy: “We imagine a world where we can be the personal tutor available in your pocket to everyone, everywhere - for free”

Interview with Rolando Nuñez Baza, Head of Latin America Khan Academy and keynote speaker at Bett Latin America 2016.

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Research & Surveys
Customer issues, key things and predictions for LMSs

In its latest newsletter The Company of Thought analyses five customer issues, five key things and three predictions about learning management systems (LMSs). Access the results of the analysis performed by the prestigious think tank.

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Research & Surveys
The Top 20 Most Affordable LMS Software

Capterra published a snapshot of the most affordable options as measured by the average monthly cost, total number of features offered for that cost, and customer reviews.

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Research & Surveys
Latest E-learning Market and Trends

Keys for industry, customer issues and predictions analyzed by The Company of Thought, a high level international think tank, comprising thought leaders from the e-learning and related industries.

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Research & Surveys
The Top 20 Most Popular LMS Software

Capterra published a look of the most popular options as measured by a combination of their total number of customers, active users, and online presence.

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Research & Surveys
The Top 20 Most User-Friendly LMS Software

Capterra published the most user-friendly LMS options as measured by a combination of their usability, customer services offered, and customer reviews.

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Research & Surveys
Gamification: key things, recent applications and predictions

The gamification of e-learning is continuing to grow, although the industry doesn’t really – yet – understand how to build-in true human motivational factors instead of superficial game mechanics. Here are some things that The Company of Thought has been thinking about recently – notably Gamification.

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Interviews
“MOOCs are not reaching the learners who could benefit from these courses the most”

What are the main challenges that must be resolved by MOOC providers and universities that develop these kinds of courses? How will evolve the creation of credentials and certificates for MOOC courses? Should universities develop a MOOC strategy? Do companies value the knowledge and skills that a person acquires through a MOOC? Growth and evolution analysis of MOOCs. Interview with Dhawal Shah - Founder of Class Central.

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Innovation
Teachers v Techies: The Big Robot Debate

Robots could soon replace teachers. In fact, not only could they replace them, but they should and will. That’s the view of two top education technology experts, who’ll be at the OEB Debate in Berlin later this month to argue their case that substituting artificial intelligence for real teachers will boost quality and lead to better results.

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Solutions & Apps
eXact learning solutions adds a new authoring feature to its LCMS

In the new release of its learning content management system (LCMS), global learning company, eXact learning solutions, is expanding users’ authoring options. In particular, it’s introducing a companion to ‘HM’, its XML-based templates library for generating e-learning content. The new feature is called ‘Document Model’ (DM).

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