The 30-month XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling competition has concluded, demonstrating that innovative training technology can reskill unemployed or underemployed workers without a college degree in half the time for jobs earning twice as much. XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling set out three years ago to find the industry innovators that could develop and demonstrate effective rapid reskilling solutions...
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) objective is to help disadvantaged workers obtain well-paying national security positions by completing self-directed training led by advanced technology. To accomplish this, DARPA is reaching out to American technologists, digital learning platform creators, researchers, students, and teachers to propose, and if selected, develop tools with funding backed by...
UMass Amherst received a grant from the U.S National Science Foundation (NSF) to hold a workshop October 19-25 that explores how artificial intelligence can be rapidly deployed in education within 3 years. The workshop brought together academic, commercial, and government experts to ideate and propose projects that would be funded by the U.S. National Science...
The “Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy in Brasov, Romania has purchased a subscription from Alelo for language and culture training that covers Ukraine and other regions around the world. Some Academy students will role-play with AI-driven avatars from these regions to learn proper communication and customs when interacting with natives. “Alelo prides itself on preparing...
The future of work tries to predict what will happen in tomorrow’s workforce for better planning and preparation today. Typically it looks at who does the work, when and where work is done, and the role of technology in how work is done.1 While Alelo’s conversational artificial intelligence fits nicely into the technology category for...
WholeStory, Career Path Services, and Alelo are participants in the $5M global XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling competition sponsored by New Profit. Until now, the three organizations represented two of the final five teams in the competition: Team Dignified Work (Career Path Services and WholeStory) and Team Alelo. Now Team Alelo is rolling into Team Dignified Work,...
