January 31, 2023
Innovations from Alelo, Career Path Services, WholeStory and Other XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling Finalists Shown to Double Income of America’s Vulnerable Workers

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...

January 12, 2023
Alelo moves to phase two in the DARPA AI Tools Adult Learning challenge

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...

January 11, 2023
Alelo’s CEO Works With a Multidisciplinary Team at UMass Amherst To Influence National Science Foundation Funding for AI in Education

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...

December 20, 2022
Students at the Romanian air force academy in Brasov use Alelo language and culture training

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...

September 27, 2022
Alelo reshapes the future of work in unexpected ways

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...

July 21, 2022
Alelo, Career Path Services, and WholeStory collaborate in $5M XPRIZE to reinvent workforce development on the West Coast

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...

June 27, 2022
Conversational AI for Faster and More Effective Customer Service Training

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed consumers’ expectations for the customer experience. Customer interactions are frequently online, through websites and other digital tools. Customers expect support when they need it, which...

June 1, 2022
How Alelo Rapid Reskilling is Changing People’s Lives

Alelo is using conversational ai technology to help disadvantaged workers quickly learn new skills and qualify for new jobs. Here are the stories of two of those workers. Kayla and...

May 19, 2022
Assessing Employee Skills: Socratic Learning for the 21st Century

In the days of Socrates and Plato, tutors taught their students by systematically asking them probing questions. According to Plato, the instructor should feign ignorance of the subject, to elicit...

May 15, 2022
Alelo Volunteers To Help Boston College Shape the Next Generation of Learning Engineers

The 2021/2022 school year is coming to a close, and Alelo is wrapping up this year’s volunteer participation in Boston College’s Master of Arts in Learning Engineering program. The program...

May 9, 2022
Job Skills in a Fraction of the Time: How Alelo is Making it a Reality

Imagine if people could learn new skills in one fifth or even one-tenth the time of classroom instruction. Lack of training would essentially cease to become a barrier to employment....

April 27, 2022
Why Conversational AI Beats VR for Rapid Skilling

What is the most effective way to prepare for a new job? This is a critical question for employers who are inducting new employees and want them to be ready...

March 3, 2022
Alelo Reaches Final Five Among 118 Entrants in $5 Million Global Xprize Rapid Reskilling Competition

Thanks to the success of its industry-leading AI avatar-based upskilling and reskilling solutions, Alelo is one of only five remaining Finalists in the XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling competition that began with...

February 24, 2022
Alelo is Chosen from 800 to be a Finalist in the Learning Engineering Tools Competition

Alelo was selected as a finalist in the Learning Engineering Tools Competition 2021, a $4 million prize challenge to leverage technology, data, and learning science to create new edtech tools...

February 2, 2022
Alelo Adds Reseller and Expands Presence in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America

Vocacy is Alelo’s newest International reseller of Enskill®, an award-winning artificial intelligence training program that delivers rapid skills development through authentic simulations with online avatars. Vocacy, a subsidiary of Blue...