Editor’s Note

For the last five years or so, industry experts have argued over the impending end of the LMS. Many argued about the xAPI and its Learning Record Store (LRS) functionality as the eventual successors.

While others started branding their learning platforms as Gamification LMS, Microlearning LMS, or Social Learning LMS. Some said other forms of external learning tools would take over, while others chose to take a whole new tangent in itself.

One may be able to see through all of the buzzwords and realize that a lot of this is good old ‘finding a niche and trying to position themselves differently in a crowded LMS marketplace’, and one would definitely be right about that. The truth however is in understanding – what is an xAPI and how it won’t replace your LMS!

Anand Timothy, in his article Will xApi Replace Your LMS? featured as the cover article this month, talks about how xAPI is more of an add-on to the modern LMS than its successor.

Copious research documents the fact that younger generations like to learn. After all, they grew up attending schools and college; learning is part of the way they interact with the world.

As per various studies younger generations are more likely to be engaged and to stay on their jobs if they can learn. Yet not all training takes place in a traditional classroom or corporate learning center.

Check out Evan Hackel's To Lead Younger Workers, Invest In Training!, where he lists down various forms of training that appeal strongly to younger generation employees.

Moving on there is The Blockchain Skill Gap by Donika Kraeva, where the author will tell us how to meet the demand for blockchain engineers and solve the skill gap issue.

Also read Paula Allen's Staying Ahead Of The Curve Amid Emerging Workplace Threats and Ben Gold's 5 Ways To Increase Employee Productivity, among other articles in this edition of Training & Development Excellence.

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