🧑💻Filling the Digital Skills Gap
The global digital skills gap and challenges in the traditional education system are prompting government investment, partnerships, and the emergence of commercial solutions to ensure future workforces are digital ready.
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🧑💻 Tech Upskilling Landscape
The global digital skills gap, which is estimated to bring a shortage of over 85 million tech workers and annual revenue loss of $8 trillion by 2030 is impacting major economies such as the US, Europe, China, Japan, among many other countries. Governments globally are creating incentives, investments and partnerships to ensure their future workforces are digital ready. However traditional education systems are not well equipped to deliver to the scope and scale required, prompting a range of commercial solutions in the market. For example, tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Cisco, and IBM have announced initiatives to train the workforce, especially in emerging economies, while traditional providers like Pluralsight and New Horizons offer personalized, employer-led programs. Bootcamps and MOOC models, including Le Wagon and Coursera, provide fast-paced, market-tailored courses and platforms like GitHub and Free Code Camp foster collaboration and open platforms for digital learning. Companies such as Cybrary offer specialized technology courses, while Camp K12 and Codemao concentrate on K-12 technology literacy.
HolonIQ Market Map - Tech Upskilling
HolonIQ tracks the tech upskilling solutions market, with thousands of organisations and market developments. Check the Tech Upskilling Topic for companies, charts, reports and data on this evolving market.
🔮 2024 Global Education Outlook
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🧨 Digital Transformation in Higher Education
Digital adoption and transformation remain the biggest challenge for universities (followed by funding/budget cuts, then student academic outcomes) according to the most recent result from HolonIQ's annual Higher Education Digital Transformation Survey. We are still gathering feedback from our Global Higher Education Panel and would love to hear from your institution! Participants of this research receive a full report and can nominate their institution for a HolonIQ Case Study. Participate.
Higher Education Digital Capability Framework (HEDC)
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🏫 University Grants
🇺🇸 The University of Pennsylvania received an $83.9 million gift from alum Dr. Roy Vagelos and his wife, Diana, for science initiatives.
🇺🇸 Georgia State University's National Institute for Student Success (NISS) secured a $7.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Postsecondary Student Success Program to research the impact of chatbots on student outcomes.
💰 Funding & Acquistions
📱Saudi Arabia based iStoria raised $1.3 million to enhance its English language teaching platform in partnership with Oxford and expand its global reach.
✍️ ETS, the operators of the TOEFL and TOEIC English exams, acquired PSI, the parent company of the Skills for English test.
🖥 Google TechX acquires Edlyft AI Tutor, leveraging a generative AI platform developed in collaboration with Google's Tech Exchange program.