LinkedIn Learning’s yearly Workplace Learning Report outlines trends in corporate learning and technology. As LinkedIn is the leader in social networking for career and professionals, they have unique access to data at the industry, organization, and employee level. While many market projections focus on in-demand technologies, LinkedIn Learning’s report focuses on what organizations and corporate talent development professionals are looking to invest in, both in terms of time and money, over the next year. The report also outlines in-demand skills, courses, and learning experiences.
The Workplace Learning Report is not as rigorous or thorough as some of the competitors. However, there is a lot of value in understanding the key learning investment drivers and problems organizations are looking to solve when navigating learning technology opportunities and ventures.
https://learning.linkedin.com/resources/workplace-learning-report
One of the issues I have with LinkedIn’s report feels more like an advertisement for their own programming rather than a report of educational outlooks. Google had a report last year, “The Future of the Classroom” (https://edu.google.com/intl/en_ca/latest-news/future-of-the-classroom/) which initially had a similar feel to it, but it was a lot more subtle. In this report you can be directed to LinkedIn’s Learning courses. Also, if you choose the “Share” button, you are brought directly to the sign in page for LinkedIn. Even the quotes will bring you the speaker’s LinkedIn page.
Hi Michael,
I share the same sentiment that the report was more as a promotional piece when everything requires the users to create an account to access the info. I do like the discrepancy pointed out in the report talking about that 83% of people surveyed said their executives support staff learning while only 27% felt their CEOs really encouraged learning. This is similar to what’s happening in the higher-ed now that institutions talk about funding and resources to encourage students engagement while students don’t necessarily feel any difference to that. Or even more relevant to this course, when we talk about all the advanced tasks we can perform and develop under 5G, usually only a small portion of people would benefit from it.
Michael,
Thanks for providing the link to Google’s report on “The Future of the Classroom”. I’m a heavy user of Google for Education (aka Google Apps for Education, G-Suite, learns.org), and have been posting my in-class lessons on Google Classroom for my students for the past six years. It was very useful when we went online at the end of March. However, there are many aspects of being online that I’m concerned about, and one of them, in particular, is having such a big corporation like Google controlling how and what we roll out our lessons through their platform. Don’t get me wrong, it has helped me considerably. Further, the report mentions that many nations have concerns with online responsibility. This is something that I address in my computer science (tech) course at different levels: security, citizenship, copyright. I’m glad that a bigger company like Google addressed this, but am constantly wondering about its influence on education.
It is interesting how a company that we all initially think of as a search engine has now changed the way of teaching. I often wonder what it will change next in education.