1.
Learning
drives L’Oreal India’s makeover to beauty tech
As part of its endeavour to
become a beauty tech company, L’Oreal makes digitally-savvy candidates a top
priority at the time of hiring. In response to a rapidly-changing
business, L’Oreal India has been on a journey of digital transformation for the
past three years. “We changed our entire mindset, positioning ourselves not
just as a beauty company but a beauty tech company,” explains Roshni Wadhwa,
director – HR, L’Oreal India. This involved a “big shift in strategy, the way
our managers lead their teams, encouraging team collaboration, and nurturing a
culture of entrepreneurship and innovation within the organisation,” adds
Wadhwa. Learning and development play a critical role in taking the Company
closer to its goal of becoming the world’s leading beauty tech company. “We
strongly believe in promoting from within. Therefore, we focus and invest a lot
in people development and learning,” says Wadhwa. To make sure the nationwide
lockdown’s limbo doesn’t lead to a dip in learning momentum, L’Oreal India
launched an initiative called #LearningNeverStops. “Just because they weren’t
able to attend classroom sessions or meet trainers physically, we didn’t want
employees to feel like the learning has to stop,” notes Wadhwa. The Company
built a virtual platform enabling the workforce to upskill on a variety of
topics.
2.
IIT Kharagpur, AWS join
hands to create AI L&D portal
The AI portal
is set to offer resources on AI learning in an attempt to mobilise online
learning. IIT
Kharagpur’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) has collaborated with
Amazon Web Services (AWS), to develop a National Artificial Intelligence Resource
Portal (NAIRP) to offer various learning resources on AI.
With
initial funding from the Human Resources Ministry, NAIRP was launched as a part
of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) platform. Useful material for
learning AI — textbooks, online courses, lectures, datasets, codes and other
tools— will be made available through this portal.
The
first version will be made available in a few months. This portal will use the
AWS Cloud and also be connected to the in-house cloud developed at IIT Kharagpur.
Being launched just when digital learning is being enforced everywhere — due to
the pandemic restricting mobility— the portal could not have been better timed.
3.
KITE HRD
model worth emulating: NITI Aayog
Kerala
Infrastructure and Technology for Education’s infrastructural interventions in
the field of education have benefited over 16,000 government and aided schools
in Kerala. A
report released by the NITI Aayog highlights the key strategies adopted by the
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE) that makes it one of
the best models in human resource development for India and even other
countries across the globe to emulate. Interventions were made by KITE in the
infrastructure — creating schools using information and communication
technology (ICT) — in the field of education. It also made an effort to enable
internet connectivity and e-learning for children. The organisation has
dispatched 3.74 lakh ICT equipments across 16,027 government and aided
schools in Kerala. It also provided broadband internet to 12,678 schools in the
state. Founded in 2017, the sole objective of KITE was to integrate ICT-enabled
activities in over 15000 schools in Kerala. Today, this initiative has
specifically IT trained over 1.83 lakh teachers with the launching of
programmes, such as Samagra Online Resource Portal and Little KITEs IT Clubs.
The Samagra Online Resource Portal course, a part of the Hi Tech School
project, is so designed that classes 5 to 9 can be trained through fun-filled
activities.
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