March 3, 2023
By Maury Shenk and Dr Jonathan Street
November 27, 2022
By Maury Shenk and Jonas Weinberger
September 6, 2022
By Maury Shenk
There is a huge opportunity for a new paradigm of Internet authentication based on blockchain technology with many of the technologies already here
READ MORE >June 16, 2022
By Maury Shenk, Dr Jonathan Street and Dr Sean Miller
We are delighted to announce the LearnerShape SkillsGraph project, a standards-based, open-source application for authentication of skills on the Cardano blockchain
READ MORE >March 27, 2022
We believe that this award validates the quality of our technology and the innovative vision of our open source business model
READ MORE >March 21, 2022
By Maury Shenk
Although learning is a complex process, simple systems can be used to support and enhance the complex user interactions crucial for learning success
READ MORE >January 20, 2022
By Maury Shenk
The potential of AI and blockchain technology, already demonstrated individually, is just beginning to be explored
READ MORE >November 11, 2021
By Maury Shenk
With funding approved through Project Catalyst, we are applying our open source technology to skills authentication on the Cardano blockchain
READ MORE >October 14, 2021
By Maury Shenk
With a new role in solving education challenges blockchain is proving to be more than hype
READ MORE >August 31, 2021
By Dr Jonathan Street
A major update to lsgraph, our open source learning infrastructure library, brings new concepts and a cleaner interface
READ MORE >July 26, 2021
By Maury Shenk
Questions are a powerful tool - able both to elicit information and, when used fully, to expand the space for dialog and understanding
READ MORE >June 22, 2021
By Maury Shenk
Complex organizational learning needs are poorly handled by existing skills taxonomies - AI can bridge the gap and bring precision and responsiveness
READ MORE >May 25, 2021
By Dr Jonathan Street & Maury Shenk
Learning resource recommendation is more than relevance - the correct level is also vital. Conceptual and machine learning advances enable this exciting new feature
READ MORE >April 6, 2021
By Dr Jonathan Street
Useful job recommendation requires more than simply counting missing skills. Our new approach uses neural embeddings to include the interdependence between skills.
READ MORE >March 11, 2021
By Maury Shenk
The educational needs of people and organizations are complicated. Building AI-powered open source learning infrastructure delivers the diverse and tailored solutions needed.
READ MORE >February 23, 2021
By Maury Shenk and Bruno Schneider
Education is complex – really complex. We humans struggle with both the scale and the granularity of educational options for content, targets, and skills. We are building LearnerShape based on the idea that AI can help address this problem. But AI is a tool. The solution needs to work for humans
READ MORE >January 25, 2021
By Maury Shenk
With rapid changes in the workforce organizations need to be continuously learning to avoid skill gaps. Reskilling needs to be effective, efficient, and maintain employee engagement over the long term.
READ MORE >December 24, 2020
By Maury Shenk
The central reason why LearnerShape’s AI-based technology is disruptive is its flexibility. The exciting part is when this flexible vision delivers results for customers.
READ MORE >November 17, 2020
By Dr Jonathan Street
Today, we are delighted to announce the lsgraph project, an open source API to support decisions around reskilling and upskilling. LearnerShape has been privately developing lsgraph as a core part of our infrastructure and are now publicly releasing our codebase under the LGPL license.
READ MORE >November 2, 2020
By Dr Fintan Nagle, Dr Selin Nugent, and Prof. Kevin Maynard
It’s vital for AI and machine learning to develop into constructive, helpful members of society. LearnerShape’s mission - to help learners find useful courses and learning pathways - means that we are especially responsible for getting this right.
READ MORE >October 16, 2020
By Dr Jonathan Street
LearnerShape is focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve reskilling for future jobs. In this blog post I discuss why AI matters for reskilling -- it’s all about flexibility -- and give a basic explanation of how we use AI.
READ MORE >September 28, 2020
By Maury Shenk
When we were developing the ideas that have become LearnerShape, we were highly motivated by very visible examples of large companies investing in reskilling and upskilling -- AT&T and Amazon in particular.
READ MORE >August 31, 2020
By Chris Hall and Dr Fintan Nagle
Over the last few months, the world has seen a sudden and unexpected shift from working in the office to working from home. The workplace support structures and routines we relied on are no more and this left us with not as much opportunity for collaboration and feedback.
READ MORE >July 30, 2020
By Dr Fintan Nagle
How do we describe the skills someone has, the competences required for a particular job, or the knowledge someone is planning to acquire? Learning and reskilling are key processes, and the education and employment sectors have always looked for clear frameworks to list and describe skills.
READ MORE >June 16, 2020
By Sir David Brown
Every company has a strategy. It may be explicit, formally stated and running to many written pages, charts and spreadsheets; it may be so implicit as to lead the company to believe that it has no strategy and no need of one – that its actions are guided by nothing more sophisticated than experience, insights and common sense; or it may lie somewhere between these two extremes. Whichever, all companies do have a strategy.
READ MORE >May 30, 2020
By Maury Shenk and James Fleck
Enabling collaborative learning is a key focus of LearnerShape. In this post, our CEO Maury Shenk and lead advisor on collaborative learning Prof. James Fleck explain why.
READ MORE >April 21, 2020
By Maury Shenk
COVID-19 has already seen a strong response from the technology community, ranging from Google and Apple joining forces to develop a contact tracing protocol to Sam Altman leading crowd-funding for a billion face masks to Jack Dorsey donating $1 billion (almost a third of his wealth) to relief programs.
READ MORE >March 19, 2020
By Maury Shenk
What do cavemen and cavewomen, blacksmiths and babies have in common? For one thing, they learn “on the job” (so to speak … we don’t actually want to put babies to work) in the traditional learning ecosystem involving learners, teachers, content and jobs/trades (babies do have important jobs to learn like attracting attention, eating, crawling, etc).
READ MORE >February 24, 2020
By Maury Shenk
LearnerShape is building a solution for computing individualized reskilling pathways, so we pay close attention to what other companies are doing in this space. Increasingly, we are observing that the market is coalescing around a reskilling “pipeline”
READ MORE >January 28, 2020
By Maury Shenk
Hello, world! This is the LearnerShape blog. LearnerShape was founded in 2019 (based upon ideas developed since 2017) to compute learning pathways for future jobs, using robust data science. We are funded by a grant from Innovate UK (the UK government innovation funding body) and private investors.
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