{"id":8180,"date":"2025-03-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:00:13","slug":"transforming-the-future-of-learning-and-work-with-ai-skilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2025\/03\/transforming-the-future-of-learning-and-work-with-ai-skilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming the future of learning and work with AI skilling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the past few years, companies around the world have seen a paradigm shift in how individuals consume content and attain new skills\u2014changes that will only continue to accelerate and evolve in the AI era. A global IDC survey<\/a>1<\/sup> found that a lack of skilled workers is the biggest challenge for enterprises implementing AI technology within their organizations. This shift highlights the need for continuous adaptation to emerging technologies and collaborative efforts to bridge the AI skills gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 Work Trend Index Annual Report<\/a> from Microsoft and LinkedIn also found that 66% of leaders<\/strong> say they wouldn\u2019t hire someone without AI skills. As we celebrate National AI Literacy Day in the US on March 28 this year, it\u2019s clear that no one company will likely be able to meet the opportunities of tomorrow. We believe it\u2019ll take innovative partnerships to meaningfully impact the lives of people around the world with AI literacy and skills development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transforming the future of learning with AI skilling: Watch the video<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Empowering learners with essential AI skills<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft and Pearson, the world\u2019s lifelong learning company, announced a strategic collaboration to help address one of the top challenges facing organizations globally: skilling for the era of AI. The partnership will focus on providing employers, workers, and learners with AI-powered products and services to help prepare the current and future workforce across industries for the evolving landscape of work in an AI-powered economy. By combining Pearson\u2019s expertise in learning and assessment with Microsoft\u2019s cloud and AI technologies<\/a>, this partnership will play a foundational role in helping organizations realize the full value of AI through reskilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft and Pearson are addressing the challenges and opportunities around reskilling at the ASU-GSV Summit<\/a> in San Diego, US, April 6-9, 2025. The summit is dedicated to the scaled innovations in the delivery of education and workforce skills that are critical to creating a world in which all people have equal access to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At ASU-GSV, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Learning, Jeana Jorgensen, will join Pearson President of Workforce Skills, Vishaal Gupta, for a discussion on transforming skills development and talent planning<\/a> for the AI era. They\u2019ll talk about how rapid intervention is needed or we risk the AI skills gap becoming a skills chasm, threatening the ability of individuals and organizations to thrive in an AI-powered future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll be also joining Vishaal and Jeana for a discussion at ASU-GSV on skilling for the AI era<\/a>. We\u2019ll dive deeper into how the Microsoft and Pearson collaboration will transform and scale AI skilling and help organizations equip learners and workers with the critical skills they need to succeed in a technology-driven world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rethinking reskilling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Given the urgent need to rethink learning and reskill workers, Microsoft and Pearson will collaborate in several ways, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n