The Business of Learning
The emphasis on making organizational learning an integral part of the organization, focusing on impacting key business metrics and how to measure and communicate effectively.
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Canvas Career by Instructure: AI-Powered Skills LMS for Modern L&D
L&D teams have more opportunities than ever to build programs that directly connect with what learners need and what organizations are trying to achieve. The challenge is finding the time and capacity to do it well when content production, reporting, and administrative work fill most of the calendar. This demo shows how Canvas Career by […]
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Finding Your Footing in L&D: A Conversation with Isabella Barker, Young Learning Leader of the Year
Confidence … is not about performing certainty. It is about staying steady enough to move forward without pretending you already know everything.
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Meet the Learning Guild Advisory Committee: The Practitioners Helping Shape Our 2026 Events
Behind every great conference is a simple question: What do learning professionals need most right now? At the Learning Guild, we don’t answer that question alone. This year, we’re proud to introduce our 2026 Advisory Committee—an accomplished group of learning leaders representing diverse industries, roles, and perspectives across the learning and development profession. This committee is more than just a collection of impressive titles. They’re actively sharing […]
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Workplace Readiness: Can Higher Education Develop AI-Ready Students?
Internships, simulations, and cross-disciplinary projects can help students practice human-AI collaboration, resilience, and decision-making in environments that mirror the workplace’s ambiguity and complexity.
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Customer Education as a Growth Lever: A Conversation with Debbie Smith, President, CEdMA
Customer education can serve many roles. In some companies, it generates revenue. In others, it reduces churn, lowers support costs, drives adoption, or fuels expansion. The problem is not choosing the wrong role—it’s never asking the question in the first place.
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The Modern Challenges Reshaping Adult Learning
At its best, adult learning does more than transfer information. It builds confidence, reinforces identity, and helps people make sense of change without feeling left behind by it.
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Taking Stock of Data Literacy for L&D Professionals
Data literacy isn’t a destination. It’s a practice, and practices only improve when you know what you’re working with.
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From Badge to Business Value: Making Digital Credentials Work for Learners, Issuers, & Employers
There are plenty of programs that issue digital badges and certificates to their learners. But many of those credentials stop delivering value the moment they’re issued: Learners struggle to explain them, employers struggle to trust them, and learning teams struggle to show the impact of their programs. Drawing on research from over 500 employers and […]
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The End of the Essay & the Future of Evaluation
Professional educators understand that knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are developed through different learning methods and have to be assessed through different methods as well.
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Rethinking Work Design for the AI Era: A Conversation with Alex Kalish, Amazon Global Ops GenAI
The real value [of AI] shows up when teams become willing to challenge legacy assumptions and when they stop asking how to do the same process faster and start asking why the process exists at all!