Insights from Learnovate

Senior leadership teams are demanding Learning and Development (L&D) show business impact. Find out how L&D can show its contribution to achieving strategic goals and delivering business value.

Technology will transform the work of human experts say the keynotes at Learning Technologies 2019. Expertise will be liberated from human brains – transforming the way we produce and distribute expertise in society.

There is a gap in the adoption of machine learning in HR and (L&D). As artificial intelligence (AI) and ML transform businesses and disrupt sectors, we ask why these key functions have remained relatively immune. We explore the benefits of ML for attracting and retaining top talent, managing skills and performance and improving employee satisfaction.

While historically L&D departments have sat under the remit of Human Resources, many companies have come to realise that learning expertise cannot be shoehorned into an organisation using traditional HR skills and backgrounds.

The 90s were a time of creativity with innovations such as e-commerce, the Hubble Space Telescope and the resurgence of double denim. With such abundant creativity, one could be forgiven for missing the ground-breaking classification developed by Purdue University’s Peggy Ertmer in 1999.

In a memorable opening scene of the movie Robocop thirty years ago, prototype security robot ED-209 fails to reverse an instruction to terminate a target during a demonstration.