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Clue, the pedagogical investigation is back!!!

Last year, we launched a learning experience based on the key elements of the mythical board game developed by Hasbro®: Clue. The learner, in the shoes of Colonel Mustard, had to solve the murder of Mr. Boddy in the Skill Island mansion, relying on a specific set of skills: cognitive bias and the art of argumentation.

To solve this crime, learners had to discover as many clues as possible by exploring the mansion and questioning the five suspects… who could mislead Colonel Mustard, knowingly or not! The learner’s critical thinking skills are therefore essential to unravel the truth from the false in this immersive learning experience. This skill, identified as indispensable by 2025 by the World Economic Forum, allows the learner to learn how to build rigorous reasoning in order to reach an objective, or to analyze facts in order to formulate a judgment.

The result? This educational innovation has been a great success. Indeed, with more than 12,000 starts, Clue: Murder on Skill Island is in the top 5 of our most consulted courses*.

But did the mansion really reveal all its secrets?

On July 26, 2022, (re)discover the educational survey that makes learners heroes of their training. On the agenda: more mystery, more secrets and more learning!

(Re)immerse yourself in the skin of Colonel Mustard and return to Skill Island to lead the investigation to find the culprit of Mr. Boddy’s murder and solve the new riddles that the mansion has in store for you… filled with new secret passages and clues to be found!

If you haven’t yet discovered this pedagogical innovation that won an award in the “Corporate Training” category at the French Award Ceremony “Les Cas d’Or de l’Edtech” in 2021, it’s time to start investigating… or re-discover it with this new 2022 version.

*Based on the ranking of courses played over the period from October 2021 (Clue launch month) to June 2022.

5 essential courses to sustainably transform the company through training

The ecological transition is an important axis of transformation for us, but also for the rest of the world. On the occasion of the Sustainability Week, which took place from 20 to 24 September 2021, discover the 5 essential courses to initiate the ecological transition of your company.

To learn is to understand

The causes of the ecological crisis are the first basics to acquire in order to understand the extent of the problem. Climate, pollution, biodiversity: the world’s ecosystems are in danger, and this is largely due to our social and economic system. The sustainable transformation of a company can only be effective if we also transform our personal and professional habits. The course “Understanding the ecological crisis“, co-edited with the College of Sustainable Development Directors (C3D), aims to provide the keys to understanding the ecological crisis, to enable professionals to understand the mechanisms at the origin of the ecological crisis, their interactions and their consequences.

Understanding the environmental crisis

Biodiversity, an often neglected natural capital

After understanding the extent of the ecological crisis, it is important to identify what the ecological crisis is jeopardising. Businesses need biodiversity to operate smoothly and sustainably. Yet businesses affect it as much as they depend on it. Biodiversity is essential to the proper functioning of all ecosystems, yet it is threatened by the ecological crisis. It is therefore time to act to protect it. Thus, the Coorpacademy course “Protection of biodiversity: an asset for companies“ transmits the best practices to preserve and enhance this natural capital, and allows all employees to be initiated into the challenges of the ecological transition.

Protecting biodiversity: an asset for companies

Transform in order to last

Are you up to date on the origins of the ecological crisis and its impact on biodiversity? It is time to learn how to transform the company. Our contemporary economic system, which is based on a model of infinite growth, is no longer viable. It is therefore crucial to understand how the company can reinvent itself to become sustainable? Thanks to the course “Preparing the company for the environmental transition“ co-edited with the College of Sustainable Development Directors (C3D), you will be able to guide the transformation through essential tools for the transition and by adopting the right reflexes in the face of change.

Preparing the company for the environmental transition

From a straight line to a virtuous circle

To go further and really revolutionise the current economic model, we recommend the course “The circular economy: from a straight line to a virtuous circle” co-edited with MySezame. Indeed, if we evolve in a world of finite resources, it has its limits and we are beginning to see these limits. It is therefore time to rethink our linear economy in order to transform it into a virtuous and above all, sustainable circle.

The Circular Economy: From a Straight Line to a Virtuous Circle

What does this mean in practice?

Once you have developed and tested your theoretical knowledge of sustainable transformation, it is time to look at CSR approaches. Starting a CSR approach depends on each company. Each company can act on its own scale and have a greater or lesser impact on its sector, but how do you start or transform your own CSR approach? To guide you, discover through the Coorpacademy course “Sustainable transformation: success stories and business cases“ 3 very different companies that have integrated CSR into their strategy based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A course to give you the keys to action to positively impact society.

Sustainable Change: Success Stories and Business Cases

Large-scale training is essential to transform the company. By massively training employees on crucial sustainable development issues, and by raising awareness of the consequences that our human activities can have on ecosystems, we are gradually changing the rules of the game; and it is by sustainably transforming the company that we will be able to play longer. To go further, discover Coorpecology, the online training platform dedicated to sustainable transformation!

Trivial Pursuit : 2 new courses to make people love to learn

December 15, 1979, two friends who love board games decide to play a game. Scott Abbott, a sports journalist, and Chris Haney, a photographer for the Montreal Gazette, ask themselves: who is the better player?

One argument leads to another, and an idea germinates in the minds of the two friends on this cold Canadian night. They don’t know it yet, but they have just invented a board game that will become mythical…

Trivial Pursuit !

Vendu à 20 millions d’unités en 1984, le jeu Trivial Pursuit est depuis plus de 40 ans, le jeu de culture générale pour animer soirées ou après-midis en famille, entre amis, et entre collègues.

Selling 20 million units in 1984, Trivial Pursuit has been the general knowledge game to liven up evenings and afternoons with family, friends and colleagues for over 40 years.

And it is also a partner publisher of Coorpacademy’s emblematic courses for 1 year now. The Trivial Pursuit courses offered on the Coorpacademy platform cover different themes, each time with 30 general knowledge questions on the chosen subject.

A partnership for a love of learning

If we are proud to collaborate with Hasbro to enrich our training offer, it is because this partnership is the symbol of our deepest conviction: learning can be fun and entertaining, while remaining effective and engaging. Indeed, with this partnership, we combine our desire to deal with all existing soft skills (and general knowledge is one of them!) with our constant search for innovative and entertaining formats, which make people want to learn and, above all, love learning.

To date, 7 Trivial Pursuit courses are available on the Coorpacademy platforms, and we have just added 2 new courses accessible from today, 23 July 2021:

Trivial Pursuit courses

Science & Nature

Trivial Pursuit – Science & Nature

Geography

Trivial Pursuit – Geography

Entertainment

Trivial Pursuit – Entertainment

History

Trivial Pursuit – History

Arts & Literature

Trivial Pursuit – Arts & Literature

Sports & Leisure

Trivial Pursuit – Sports & Leisure

(New) Planet and Environment: 30 questions to test your knowledge of the circular economy, to develop your sustainable thinking and initiate change.

Trivial Pursuit – Planet and Environment

(New) Web & Technology: 30 questions specially created for those who think they know everything about the Internet, GAFAM and the big names of Silicon Valley.

Trivial Pursuit – Web and Technology

At the end of the programme, you can win a special certificate with all the pie charts to illustrate your general knowledge!

But what does an online Trivial Pursuit course look like?

Of course, you can find your Trivial Pursuit courses in your course catalogue:

Let’s choose the Planet and Environment course, published this week, which will allow you to develop the new essential skill for tomorrow’s world: sustainable thinking. It looks like a classic course, like all the courses you can find in the Coorpacademy catalogue. The same interface, a Basic, Advanced, and Coach level.

As part of this pie chart, you will, on completion of the Basic level, be able to :

Know a simple technique for air conditioning homes
Understand the concept of the circular economy

At the end of the Advanced level, you will be able to :

Know which resource is the most exploited by humans after water
Master the concept of grey energy

Finally, at the end of the Coach level, you will be able to :

Understand the etymology of the word “climate”
Know the plant-based alternatives to leather

Three levels, increasing levels of difficulty. So far, nothing new.

The difference with another course lies in the structure of the questions, as well as in the way the course is “validated”. Each level will “ask” you 10 general knowledge questions. There is no lesson, no video. Each correct answer earns you 4 stars (as in any other course) and you need 6 correct answers out of 10 minimum to access the next level. Here is an example of a question:

In 2016, Bertrand Piccard made the first round-the-world trip in a…

solar-powered

nuclear-powered

hydrogen-powered

In a solar plane! By answering a question, whether you answer correctly or not, you will have access to these two irremovable elements of the Coorpacademy pedagogy. The Key Point, and Did You Know? As in the following screenshot:

Now you know everything! All you have to do is play the course. And it is perhaps in this context that the expression we regularly use (playing a course, rather than following it, for the entertainment dimension we try to add to all our training content) takes on its fullest meaning.

It’s your turn to play!

TRIVIAL PURSUIT, the associated logo, the distinctive design of the game board, trivia cards, game tokens, and scoring wedges are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. © 1981, 2020 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by Hasbro.

New skills available on the Coorpacademy catalog!

Coorpacademy’s catalog is being renewed to better meet the training expectations of tomorrow. In a constantly evolving environment, it is necessary to know how to train continuously. To do so, it is crucial to identify the essential skills to be acquired. As mentioned in our article on the 10 key skills to be developed by 2025, identified by the World Economic Forum in its Future of Jobs 2020 report, training is essential to prepare companies and employees for the challenges that will disrupt them, and to anticipate the major transformations to come. While we already cover 100% of the skills identified by the World Economic Forum, we are investing in new skills for the future, such as sustainable thinking!

Therefore, we are glad to enrich our training catalog with 3 new skills. The ones that we, and the World Economic Forum, believe will shape the future of work in the years to come. In order to better accompany you in the training of your employees, in your upskilling or simply to feed your curiosity, discover the new skills to be developed on Coorpacademy:

Adaptability and Resilience

Showing adaptation and resilience is crucial in all circumstances. We can never say it enough, being prepared for the unexpected is essential to remain efficient and not to be destabilized by the obstacles we encounter. For companies, developing a culture of adaptability and resilience allows them to prepare for the unexpected, paradoxically. 2020 has shown that the unexpected is often confusing, which is why you should learn how to react to such situations, and do so before the next event.

Sustainable thinking

The next (r)evolution will be ecological and to prepare for it, we are adding the competence entitled “sustainable thinking” in the Coorpacademy catalog. The ecological transformation of companies involves numerous stakes and the changes it implies must be thought sustainably, in order to conceive an organization that would take into account its whole ecosystem (economic, social and environmental) to build a sustainable model. To begin the acculturation to these vital subjects, we’re adding the sustainable thinking competence to the Coorpacademy catalog!

Learning to learn

Because learning is not always easy, between notification and lack of concentration, we think it is important to go back to the basics: learning to learn. This is the theme of the new skill added to the Coorpacademy catalog. Rediscover the mechanism of your brain, to better understand the way it processes information and thus learn more efficiently. As we evolve in an uncertain world, learning to learn is essential to develop your adaptability and respond rapidly to the transformations of your profession. Become a learning ace with this new skill available on Coorpacademy!

By enriching the Coorpacademy catalog with new skills, we enable companies to promote their transformation(s). To ensure a successful digital transition, discover the 3 main skills to acquire:

Digital transformation: what if it is not over? Discover the top 3 skills for a successful transition

To discover in detail the new skills available in the Coorpacademy catalog, click here.

Everybody: stay at home, work remotely, we will help you!

How to be efficient remotely? Facing the global Covid-19 outbreak, most companies are making their employees work remotely. Unprecedented times, unprecedented measures. But organizations and employees are not at the same level when it comes to working remotely.

This is why we unveiled on all our learning platforms a special playlist, “Remote Working”, including all you will need to be efficient at work remotely and to be agile!

Tools to work remotely like a boss

Communicate at all times with instant messaging or videoconferences.

Slack is an instant messaging platform (text, call and video) which regroup people by channels and gather all the information you need to work. Slack can interface itself with numerous services and applications already implemented, such as Salesforce, Google Drive…
Microsoft Teams is a similar platform where you can chat with your coworkers, invite them to meetings, call them or collaborate with them in a dedicated online place, wherever you are.
For videoconferencing, let’s not forget Skype, Zoom and others (Google Hangouts Meet, appear.in, join.me)… Participating in meetings in video, remotely, has never been this easy!

Virtual collaboration for work in real life!

With tools such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, you can upload all your files online and allow instant consultation and/or modification, in real time, to several coworkers on documents such as word documents, spreadsheets or slides.

Manage your projets remotely and plan your meetings smartly.

One of the most famous tools, Trello, will allow you to organize your projects and to prioritize tasks in an agile, fun and enriching way thanks to its boards, lists and carts.
For agendas, you can use your virtual calendars such as Google Calendar. You can also associate this tool to Virtual Assistants such as Clockwise or Julie Desk which will help you plan in a seamless manner: by doing this, you will avoid confusing back and forth discussions to set up times for a meeting.

Good tools make a great worker, yes, but “men are social beings” (Aristotle).

Remote working implies using these tools efficiently for communication to be as seamless and efficient as possible. The main objective is to remain performant but also to limit the risks of bad comprehension, loneliness and induced stress. The way of managing your teams and handling your emotions are paramount, and these are skills for which anyone can learn, upskill and improve.

The online learning playlist “Remote Working” includes courses on new agile management methods and on stress and emotions management. Every details need to be taken into account, even simple 5 minute breathing exercises to relax.

Our team of instructional designers has aggregated for our learners the most adapted courses to face the unprecedented situation we are currently living. This aims at improving everyone’s efficiency in a very concrete way. Whether it is about personal organization, project management or the remote management of a team, discover in this new playlist:

methods to structure one’s workload and manage allocated time and priorities,
online tools to collaborate and communicate as a team,
new agile work techniques,
but also – and this is important – simple methods to stay zen and relax, to manage one’s emotions and others’.

Try this new playlist out!

6 hours of learning content, whether you do it as complete courses – between 30 and 45 minutes – or in short microlearning learning nuggets.

Stay safe, take care of yourself and others, and happy remote working!

If you want to go further, discover these management advises on HBR.

A new heart, infinite lives, to love learning a hundredfold!

This summer, our product team worked hard to give you two new features on the Coorpacademy platform. Here’s a short article to unveil them to you!

A new heart to love learning.

Cats have 7 (or 9), you had 3 to complete a course chapter on the Coorpacademy platform. Do you know what we are talking about? Lives, of course.

As a reminder, if you give a wrong answer, you lose a life. Once you’ve lost all 3 lives, you have 2 choices: you can watch the course video to win back one life, or you can start the chapter again. But that was before!

You have now 4 lives for each level, all the time, on Coorpacademy.

Why did we chose to do this?

We’ve observed that the success rate could increase by 50% on a course with one more life! Less stress, more time to focus on answering properly, on “Key Learning Factors” or on “Did you know?”. In the end, bigger chances to succeed in a course and bigger ones to love learning.

4 lives instead of 3 in order to improve, one more chance to answer rightly

Now that you love learning (even more that before), would you have 5 minutes?

5 minutes, it’s the time it takes to water your plants, to cook pasta or to take a shower. It’s now also the time you need to learn or to strengthen your knowledge on a topic. Because our agendas are fully booked, we’ve created 5′ Learning.

The way it works? It’s training, but in very short 5 minute sessions.

It allows you to learn always at the right time, before a meeting, when you really need to acquire some knowledge or – very simply – when you have a little time to satisfy your desire to learn.

Most importantly! There’s no life counting in 5′ Learning courses.

What does this mean?

You’ll never be stopped while doing a course, whatever the answers you give, right or wrong. You’ll then have time to focus on the correction of the questions you answered wrongly. Always keeping in mind that the goal is to revise, to learn and to memorize, at your pace.

Would you like a concrete example?

Franck is Digital Marketing Specialist in his company and he knows everything about digital campaigns. When he shows up at the office, he receives a meeting invitation from the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Specialist, scheduled in 30 minutes, on the Google Ads “Quality Score” topic.

He freaks out a bit, because he doesn’t remember what it is and is afraid to ask someone. He takes his mobile phone, logs in into his company’s Coorpacademy Digital Learning Platform and selects the chapter “Quality Score: Your Adwords Campaign Currency” from the course “Search”.

4 questions, a 2 minute course video: in 5 minutes, Franck revised the key points of the Quality Score, without pressure because there’s no life tally, and is fully ready for his meeting.

Infinity of lives in 5′ Learning, zero pressure for a maximum of learning benefits.

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