According to this article, " the Office 365 team is getting very focused on the corporate learning market. This $240 billion space is wide open for Microsoft and they are beginning to understand how their tools (plus the connections to LinkedIn Learning) can play." I ahve to agree. Even without LinkedIn Learning (which can be expensive) there's a lot Microsoft can do to help Office 365 support learning. For example, Microsoft Cortex "indexes all the documents and interactions happening in the company (using Office 365 Graph) and shows you trending topics, people most affiliated as experts, and documents most relevant to a topic." Also, "LinkedIn has announced that they are building a Learning Experience Platform, which is likely to look like an 'open edition' of Microsoft Learning."
Josh Bersin also describes in this article how competitors are responding. For example, EdCast "just announced its Open Skills Cloud," a system tghat looks a lot like the LPSS engine we were building at NRC a few years ago. "The system automatically creates a skills ontology (and can injest other skills models), finds related skills, and then uses this information to tag and recommend content." And learning experience platforms (LXP) "are now becoming intelligent content platforms that connect learning and content to work." But they all need to remember: learning is not a search problem. These systems will need to support creativity tools, interaction and learning community.
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