Upcoming Reports

Learning News 'In Practice Reports' provide learning teams with practical insights into how to implement a specific learning technology or a specific learning strategy. 

• Learning Technology in Practice Reports
• Learning Strategy in Practice Reports

Each report is journalist-led, providing ‘how-to-implement’ insight with observations on the solutions and vendors in each space. They are case study-driven, editorially led, without vendor influence. Each report has a single, exclusive sponsorship opportunity, for one vendor to co-brand, with a package of advertising, supporting events and campaign communications.

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Learning Technology in Practice Reports

These reports investigate learning technologies that are having a transformative effect on learning experience, performance, and business impact. There are eight reports planned, each with practical insights from end users, practitioners, analysts, market experts, and technology vendors.

1. Skills Intelligence Technology in Practice
Skills, skills, skills, it’s one of the hot topics for organisations going into 2025. So how do you know what skills your workers have and how they can be matched against organisational needs and priorities? This report looks at the technology that is delivering skills intelligence - taking data from multiple sources and providing insights to help talent mobility and development. Includes observations on vendors including Beamery, 365Talents, AG5, Eightfold.ai, Fuel50, Gloat, HRForecast, Neobrain, TechWolf.

2. Skills Development Technology in Practice
Skills development is also a hot topic for employers and there are now various technological approaches for helping workers learn and practise new skills. This report explores these approaches and how they are helping workers gain new skills. Includes observations on vendors including Attensi, ETU, Immerse, The Regis Company, Serious Factory, Tailspin Reality Labs, Boundless immersive, Interplay Learning, VisuerLab, Mursion, Virti. 

3. Internal Mobility Technology in Practice
Internal mobility is a more cost-effective way of overcoming skills shortages, and there is a range of technologies that can help. This report helps make sense of the technologies and how they enable internal mobility.  Includes observations on vendors including Degreed, Eightfold, Gloat, Phenom, Workday.

4. Collaborative Learning Technology in Practice
Collaborative learning is not new, but harnessing it effectively with hybrid working is. This report looks at the technologies that are helping teams learn together. Includes observations on vendors including Hive Learning, 360Learning, Thrive, Fuse Universal.

5. Performance Support Technology in Practice
Performance support has been a buzzword for years in L&D, and generative AI is generating new excitement around it. This report looks at the fundamentals of performance support and how technology is making it a reality.  Includes observations on vendors including Whatfix, Learning Pool OnScreen, Omniplex Guide, ClickLearn.

6. Learning Analytics Technology in Practice
Data and analytics are the oil in the engine of digital learning. So how can L&D teams ensure the data and analytics they provide to the wider organization helps drive organizational performance? This report lifts the lid on the technologies that are helping learning teams become more data-driven.  Includes observations on vendors including Watershed/LTG, Valamis, Learning Pool, 360Learning. 

7. Extended Enterprise Learning Technology in Practice
Providing learning resources for partners and customers can require an approach, functionality, and scalability well beyond what’s needed for internal learning delivery. This report looks at the technologies supporting externally focused learning.  Includes observations on vendors including Schoox, Docebo, imc Learning, Totara Learn, PeopleFluent, Thought Industries.

8. Adaptive Learning Technology in Practice (Second Edition)
This report revisits our first edition, looking at how the technology has changed and the impact adaptive learning technologies are having on L&D and the wider organization. Includes observations on vendors including Obrizum, Realizeit, Pearson Interactive Labs, Area9 Lyceum. 

 

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Learning Strategy in Practice Reports

These reports explore the pressing strategic challenges facing learning leaders. There are four reports planned for 2025.

1. Learning Strategy in Practice: Alignment
Learning teams need strategic influence to have impact. But that influence won’t come if they focus mostly on the operational delivery of learning. By aligning with the organisational strategy, L&D teams can start to demonstrate how learning can help organisations meet their goals. This report explores how L&D can become a business-aligned function.

2. Learning Strategy in Practice: Performance
By shifting focus to individual, team, and organisational performance, L&D teams can focus on all the factors that drive performance - from wellbeing to organisation design and learning. This report looks at how L&D can put performance at the heart of their approach.

3. Learning Strategy in Practice: Talent Management
Skills and talent are keeping CEOs awake at night, which represents a strategic opportunity for L&D to show leadership in these two areas. How? This report explains the strategic opportunity and how L&D teams can raise their game to meet it.

4. Learning Strategy in Practice: Impact and Value
Why does proving the impact of learning remain an ongoing challenge for L&D teams? This report explores learning impact and how L&D teams can start to demonstrate their value.