• Healthcare
• Finance
• Manufacturing
• Technology
• Professional Services

Each pathway blends AI precision with expert validation, helping organizations speed up workforce time-to-readiness in their industry’s most sought-after skills, all while saving costs and time on manual curation.

How Is a Learning Pathway Created?

Every Open Library pathway starts with guided AI that is trained to surface credible, skill-aligned resources, rather than random web content. Human experts then refine tone, relevance, and design for clarity and deeper cognitive learning, following proven learning frameworks like Bloom’s Taxonomy and Coherence and Signaling principles.

Taking a collaborative approach, with human polish and oversight applied to AI output, maintains learning science at the core, driving higher learner completion rates and building skills that transfer more effectively on the job.

The Industry Edge: Pathways Built for Workforce Readiness

Our latest industry bundles are designed to solve specific challenges in each sector:

• Healthcare: Building empowerment, communication, and decision-making confidence in clinical and non-clinical teams.
  
• Financial Services: Enhancing trust, leadership, and compliance-readiness.
  
• Manufacturing & Advanced Tech: Upgrading workforce adaptability through analytics, safety, and innovation pathways.
  
• Professional Services: Strengthening client management, consulting, and data-driven problem-solving.
  
• Retail & Consumer: Empowering managers and associates with digital, interpersonal, and operational skills.

Open Library’s research-based structure and AI-powered scalability allows organizations to quickly roll out relevant learning across roles and geographies as needs evolve, without starting from scratch each time.

What Are the Results? 

Put simply, the outcome is learning that’s simple to implement, scalable, and cost-effective. As a result, Degreed clients are now turning to Open Library not just to complement content vendors, but to replace them.

• A telecom company is moving away from LinkedIn Learning in favor of Open Library and the added relevance and quality it provides.
  
• A global mining company was able to eliminate hours of manual quality assurance (QA) and reduced content vendor spend by leveraging Open Library’s auto-refreshed, high-quality pathways.
  
• A non-profit healthcare organization saved time and budget while boosting learner confidence and peer-to-peer learning.

In total, Open Library drives measurable value:

• 60% of Degreed clients now use Open Library, with adoption up 13% month over month.
  
• Content completions increased 13% between August and September, which shows rising engagement among global users.

The Future of Open Library

Open Library is evolving beyond a curated catalog of content. Specifically, it’s becoming a multi-format learning ecosystem by combining AI-powered summaries, Maestro coaching, interactive simulations, and future premium marketplace options.

By 2026, Open Library will feature:

• 500+ pathways and 7,000+ content items
  
• 16+ ready-to-launch bundles
  
• Integrated AI coaching and leadership learning journeys
  

Basically, it’s learning that scales and evolves with your business, and without added cost.

Explore the new industry pathway bundles and see how Open Library helps your teams build the right skills—more quickly, and with lower spend and less effort.

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Completion rates prove it got done, and compliments prove employee satisfaction, but they don’t prove learning effectiveness. Execs want tangible evidence that the investment paid off. You need to show that people retained the information and are ready to use it on the job. And if it didn’t work, you need to identify where more learning is needed. 

So, what’s the answer? Test it.

Quizzes, a new experience within Degreed Maestro, enable you to quickly create and deploy AI-generated quizzes to ensure knowledge retention and measure learning effectiveness. So, next time your execs ask if it worked, you have relevant data to support your answer.

The Old Way: Manual Quiz Creation

Seeing the value of quizzes? Easy. Executing them manually, accurately, and at scale? Difficult.

Creating and deploying quizzes at scale is traditionally manual and incredibly time-consuming. It often requires extensive input from busy subject matter experts (SMEs) to draft questions, which is an inefficient use of their high-value expertise and often delays deployment. 

Reliance on manual creation and SME availability makes it difficult to scale and maintain up-to-date quizzes. This is more true now than ever, given that the skills and knowledge employees need are constantly changing. 

The New Way: AI-Generated Quizzes

With Maestro quizzes, admins can create quizzes in minutes, drastically reducing the time and effort spent. Through a text-based conversation with Maestro, you can guide Maestro to create a custom quiz on any topic and adjust parameters, like the number of questions and difficulty level. It can also create quiz questions based on existing documentation. This is a simpler way to harness the knowledge of SMEs without having to involve them in manual question generation. 

After employees finish the quiz, in-app reports enable admins to gauge their level of knowledge retention. These reports help identify consistently incorrect answers and, therefore, knowledge gaps where more learning is needed.

The quizzes are directly connected to the Degreed platform, allowing you to manage workflows like assigning quizzes or reporting on results. That makes it easy to identify where more learning is required so you can create more effective experiences that close knowledge gaps, learning more across the business.

Create Business Value

Real-world Applications for Quizzes

Example: Preparing for a Product Launch

During a new product launch, your revenue teams are inundated with information: value props, product functionality, go-to-market strategies. It’s a lot to take in, and it’s difficult to gauge whether your people are ready. 

With Maestro quizzes, you can evaluate whether your people have a grasp on key components of your new product. You can even create different quizzes for different audiences, since the information your sales team needs to remember is different from what your implementation team needs to know. By using existing documentation, you can generate quizzes focused on these different audiences within minutes. 

Example: Checking Long-Term knowledge Retention for AI Transformation 

Many organizations have ambitious targets for adopting AI in the business. This knowledge likely doesn’t exist at scale within the business, so organizations need extensive training and upskilling. By embedding a quiz at the beginning and at the end of a pathway, you can measure how much the workforce learned about implementing AI, so you can tie learning back to strategic business initiatives.  

Example: New Customer Onboarding Process

Quizzes can reinforce process and procedure updates. If you’ve launched a new customer onboarding procedure, employees need to remember the correct process, what to do, and what not to do. You’ll have visibility into their readiness and procedural sticking points that may require extra training.

Quizzes As Part of a Larger Learning Journey

Quizzes are powerful by themselves, but are enhanced when combined with other learning initiatives, such as pathways or academies. By including quizzes at the end of these experiences, you can evaluate the effectiveness of those programs and identify where they may need new or different content. 

Embedding quizzes inside Degreed also improves the learner experience, providing a UI that is consistent across experiences. And it helps you consolidate tech, reducing cost and administrative load with fewer platforms to maintain.

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A few weeks after launching Degreed Open Library, one of our clients, a leading global tech company, told us exactly what happens:  

“Usage is already higher than LinkedIn Learning.”

They didn’t promote it heavily. They didn’t roll out flashy campaigns. Instead of offering employees a sea of content to wade through, they launched a set of targeted, AI-curated learning pathways tied directly to the skills their people needed to succeed.

What is Degreed Open Library?

Degreed Open Library is an AI-curated, ready-to-deploy content library of structured learning pathways designed to help people build in-demand skills faster, with less friction, less noise, and more relevance.

With skill-based learning pathways, Degreed Open Library gives you a smarter way to activate your content. And because each pathway is bite-sized and easy to launch, learners stay engaged, without needing a roadmap or a long list of prerequisites.

The problem: Traditional content libraries are expensive and high maintenance

Large content libraries promise more–more variety, more access, more engagement. But what learners often experience is the opposite: more friction, more confusion, and less actual learning.

As L&D and IT teams juggle growing responsibilities, they need a smarter solution, one that gets people learning faster, with content that’s relevant and purposeful.

The solution: AI-curated learning pathways 

Degreed launched Open Library in April 2025 with 100 curated learning pathways focused on the most in-demand skills. In July, we expanded that offering with 100 more “Language Bundles” in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and German, removing barriers for learners in global teams.

And we’re just getting started.

Coming this October, Degreed will release 150 new pathways aligned to high-growth industries, including:

• Consumer Retail
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Customer Experience
• Finance
• Media & Telecom
• Professional Services

That’s 350+ AI-curated pathways, included with every Degreed Learning instance—no extra license required.

These ready-to-go pathways are designed to give employees a strong starting point, covering the foundational skills your workforce needs now. But every business is different. That’s why we also offer AI-curated pathway services as an add-on: to help you create highly targeted learning aligned to your unique goals, roles, and workflows.

Our AI-curated pathway services can help you create role-specific learning experiences aligned to your workflows and strategic goals. We’ll handle the heavy lifting. You get a smarter, faster way to deliver value.

From confusion to clarity: the power of curation in your content library

Degreed Open Library isn’t just another content library. It’s built to reduce friction and guide learners to exactly what they need, when they need it.

Instead of endless search results or generic playlists, AI curates the best content into structured pathways made up of articles, podcasts, videos, and courses. These pathways are always up-to-date, aligned to in-demand skills, and relevant to real roles and workflows.

Here’s what that unlocks:

1. Faster time to value

Instead of spending months designing programs, you can deploy ready-to-go pathways in minutes. Employees start learning immediately, without needing a map.

2. Less friction, less time, more focus

Employees don’t want to browse an endless catalog, they want to build skills. When learning is buried in lengthy search results or buried under generic playlists, they tune out.

AI-curated pathways remove that friction. Learners get clear, role-aligned recommendations that feel immediately relevant. They know exactly why it matters, how it connects to their job, and what comes next. That clarity leads to higher engagement, faster completion, and better on-the-job application. 

Degreed Open Library offers bite-sized learning within each pathway making learning more achievable during natural downtimes like lunch breaks or between meetings. This flexibility boosts engagement, accelerates completions, and enables quicker on-the-job application.

3. Smarter content spend

With targeted, curated content that people actually use, organizations can reduce their reliance on expensive library subscriptions and stretch their L&D budget further.

In fact, some of our customers are already exploring ways to eliminate or reduce their content subscriptions. The excitement is palpable as they explore how to redistribute their L&D budgets to higher value technologies or programs.

“My team will explore the library of resources to assess if we can match the learning content we get from [a leading content provider]. If Open Library is good enough for our learning needs, we might consider unplugging [a leading content provider] or at least reducing our number of licenses.” 

Takeaway: Stop paying for content people don’t use

L&D and IT leaders don’t need more content. They need more impact.

Degreed Open Library helps you deliver that with:

• High-quality, relevant content curated from trusted sources
• AI-powered pathways built for your business and your people
• Clearer learning journeys, higher engagement, and measurable results

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Traditional learning systems aren’t built for this complexity. But Degreed is. With Degreed Maestro, we’ve built AI that is purpose-built for learning and that amplifies workforce development. Degreed Maestro helps organizations pinpoint skill needs, personalize development, and measure change, so you’re always building the right capabilities at the right time no matter how fast or unexpected the change.

Using Degreed AI to pinpoint needs: clarity in the chaos

Knowing your destination is critical, but so is understanding where you’re starting from. Fragmented data, outdated taxonomies, and a lack of standards make it nearly impossible to identify workforce skills with confidence. And that’s a major risk when talent is your most valuable asset.

Degreed Maestro’s Skill Review Coach provides a conversational method to validate individual skills in a consistent, unbiased way. The result? A dynamic, data-rich map of your organization’s skill landscape that makes strategic planning finally feel well-informed.

Degreed also helps untangle chaotic skill data. With skill level and label normalization, Degreed standardizes skill data across systems, providers, and languages by removing duplicates, correcting inconsistencies, and enabling a single, usable view of workforce capability.

From there, role-to-skill inference uses AI to identify the skills each job requires and maps them to your people. This is complemented by inferred skills for content, which tags every piece of learning content with the relevant skills it builds, making it easier to find relevant content for your role and goals.

Using Degreed AI to personalize development: At scale at last

Personalizing learning has always been the gold standard, but it’s notoriously hard to do at scale. Most organizations are stuck delivering generic training that doesn’t match employee roles, goals, or readiness. The result? Wasted learning, disengaged employees, and minimal business impact.

Degreed Maestro changes the game. Its suite of AI-powered experiences, including a Leadership Coach, Career Coach, and intelligent pathway curation, guides every employee with just-right resources for their unique goals, skills, and challenges. Employees don’t have to hunt for the right content. It finds them.

Meanwhile, Degreed Maestro’s AI-assisted pathway curation builds structured, targeted development journeys in minutes, saving time and driving deeper engagement.

Need something even more tailored? With Maestro Studio, you can build custom AI-native learning experiences—from onboarding bots to role-plays—purpose-built for your workforce. Now every employee can have a coach in their corner, and your L&D team can finally scale personalization at a fraction of previous cost.

Using Degreed AI to measure change: Making progress visible

Many organizations invest heavily in development, yet struggle to answer a simple question: Is it working? Traditional learning metrics (completions, hours logged) can be helpful but don’t show whether people are actually building the skills the business needs. And without clear measurement, it’s impossible to prove ROI or adjust strategies.

Degreed bridges that gap. We suggest using the Degreed Maestro Skill Review Coach again after learning completion to identify improvements in skill level that came from learning.  This helps teams validate what people know, not just what they’ve clicked.

Paired with profile skill suggestions, which recommend relevant skills based on a person’s role, learning activity, and aspirations, organizations can continuously calibrate and update each individual’s skill profile. This ensures data stays current and actionable.

Together, these tools create a live snapshot of your workforce’s capabilities, so you can track improvement, close gaps faster, and align development with strategy.

Smarter workforce development with AI for learning

AI is changing everything about the way we work, and now it’s changing how we learn. Degreed puts that power in your hands, helping you identify critical skill needs, deliver development that matters, and measure progress with clarity. Whether it’s through Degreed Maestro’s guided coaching or dynamic skill inference, AI for learning gives you the tools to lead workforce transformation. By connecting skill data to learning and business needs, it helps you solve the problems that matter.

Because in the end, it’s not just about training. It’s about building capabilities that fuel transformation. If you’re ready to connect learning to outcomes with intelligent precision, get a demo and see what Degreed can do for your business.

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That’s the missed opportunity facing many organizations. But it doesn’t have to be.

“The future of higher education is one of pluralism. It’s one of many actors, many organizations contributing powerfully, dynamically, and compellingly to a world where you as a learner are able to achieve whatever it is that you want to achieve,” said Michele Spires, Assistant Vice President at the American Council on Education (ACE). “It’s about a network of organizations that collectively work together… and you get a new framework for lifelong higher education.”

Lifelong learning resonates at the core of the Degreed mission. And it’s why we’re introducing the Degreed College Accreditation Service, powered by our new partnership with ACE and Credly by Pearson. It means your people’s internal learning can go further—earning college credit, formal credentials, and long-term value.

Workplace Learning That Counts Beyond the Workplace

Let’s be clear: This is more than a new feature. It’s a strategic lever for workforce transformation, designed to help you build, validate, and mobilize skills that matter to your business.

And make no mistake: This isn’t just a benefit for employees. It’s a strategy for organizations that want to attract, grow, and retain top talent in a skills-first world.

With Degreed College Accreditation Service, your learning programs in Degreed Academies can be evaluated for college credit. The Degreed Professional Services team works with you to align content to ACE standards and issue formally recognized, transferable credits via Credly.

Your people get more than just a course completion. They get:

• Credentialed learning programs that support internal mobility and reduce attrition
• Verified, portable credentials that boost talent visibility across and beyond your organization
• Frictionless access to continuing education, with no extra time, testing, or tuition costs

“We need a future where everyone gets recognition for all lifelong learning and skills,” said David Blake, Degreed Co-CEO and Cofounder. “This partnership with ACE represents a significant stepping stone in that journey—enabling workers to gain verifiable, transferable credentials that follow them throughout their careers.”

The Business Case for Recognized Learning

Organizations already invest millions in learning and development—but without formal recognition, those investments often fall short.

Today’s savvy learning leaders seek to provide their people with verifiable credentials to boost employee engagement, strengthen the employee value proposition, and reduce attrition. They aim to transform L&D from a support function into a strategic growth engine, delivering measurable ROI across the talent lifecycle.

Skills That Stick. Credits That Count

When skills are the currency of work, credentials are a key way that currency is verified. Formal recognition gives your workforce the power to advance—whether it’s into a new role, a different industry, or a formal degree.

With ACE and Credly, you gain not only credibility but also measurable proof of performance.

And with Degreed, these credentials don’t exist in isolation. They’re fully integrated into your skill data ecosystem—making it easier to benchmark learning progress, analyze workforce capabilities, and report ROI across the enterprise.

Giving Learning the Recognition It Deserves

Your people put in the work. It’s time that work works harder for them. Let’s discuss how your company can turn internal learning into accredited pathways that drive business results and lifelong impact.

Learn more.

Let’s discuss skill building at your organization. Schedule a personalized, one-on-one call with a Degreed expert today.

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The race is on. As AI evolves faster than ever, learning teams are working hard to keep up. New tools, new expectations, and new risks are emerging almost daily, leaving many unsure how to turn AI potential into real business outcomes.

Since 2024, 15% of HR teams have shifted from evaluating AI to actively implementing it. How do they know which path will actually lead to better learning and talent outcomes? This comes as 35% of organizations say their biggest barrier to AI adoption is the risk of mistakes causing real-world consequences. How can they ensure people are using AI safely—and effectively?

With 59% of the global workforce expected to need skills transformation by 2030, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

You’re expected to harness AI—to do more with less. How?

Introducing Degreed Maestro Services

Our latest services are designed to help you reduce the time, resources, and cost needed to build customized, structured learning journeys, so you can efficiently upskill your people in the areas that matter most to your business.

This menu of services includes:

AI-Powered Pathway Development

Our learning experts use AI alongside their design expertise to build structured, relevant learning pathways tailored to your priorities. The result? Personalized, high-quality journeys—curated at speed and scale, without the heavy lift.

Customized AI Coach Deployment

From leadership coaching to sales enablement, we design and deploy customized AI-powered coaches tailored to help you execute your business strategy and achieve your goals.

By working side-by-side with your team, our experts help you implement and scale AI capabilities with confidence, bridging the gap between innovation and execution. We’re here to speed up results and deliver AI-powered learning experiences with faster time-to-value. 

Let’s take a deeper dive into what we’re offering:

AI-Powered Pathway Curation

Companies spend millions on broad libraries covering topics like “Getting Started with AI”, only to end up with outdated, generic material that doesn’t drive results.

Degreed Maestro Services changes that.

To stay competitive and effective, forward-thinking companies modernize curation. With our AI-powered pathway curation service, we bring in Degreed expertise and our AI stack to help you quickly—and cost effectively—create structured, high-impact learning journeys. 

In other words, Degreed AI helps you build the best pathways on topics most important to you and your people. You can amplify learning effectiveness, delivering high-quality learning pathways in days, not months.

Our experts will harness AI that automates content discovery, curation, and organization, freeing your team from time-consuming manual work.

Customized AI Agent Deployment

While out-of-the-box AI coaches and simulations can be powerful, businesses require customization to maximize their impact. Many talent and learning teams don’t have the time, bandwidth, or experience to customize these experiences.

With our Custom AI Agent Deployment Service, Degreed AI experts design, build, and implement AI-powered coaches and simulations tailored to your unique priorities. Whether you’re rolling out a new performance strategy or enabling a product launch, these interactive experiences help people build skills faster—and more effectively.

Here are some examples of what’s possible:

• Upskill managers at scale by democratizing access to leadership coaching tied to your internal strategy.
• Simulate real-world sales pitches to build confidence and readiness for your go-to-market teams.
• Target critical capabilities with guided practice aligned to your top business objectives.

We help you deliver AI-native experiences that feel personal, impactful, and scalable—without adding to your team’s workload.

How This Benefits Your Business

Adopting AI in learning isn’t just about tools. It’s about trust, speed, and ROI. But getting there often requires lengthy security reviews, complex procurement processes, and custom configuration work.

Maestro Services is designed to simplify all of that.

With Degreed Maestro Services, we’re making it as hassle free for you to get the most out of Degreed, as fast as possible.

Degreed Maestro Services is designed for:

• Less manual effort: Our teams will create custom pathways and coaches for you.
• Faster time to skill: Build and deploy impactful learning in days, not months.
• More business alignment: Target skills that directly support your strategic goals.

With Degreed Maestro Services, you accelerate workforce transformation—building the critical capabilities that keep your organization competitive, agile, and future-ready.

Find out more.

Check out our seven-part Degreed in Action webinar series, and get a clear picture of everything that’s coming from Degreed.

Choose your sessions to find out more about our innovations in AI, skills reporting, automations, Degreed Professional Services, Degreed Academies, and more.

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That’s the reality of workforce development today at many organizations. But the future looks quite different.

“AI is here to revolutionize this industry, transforming this $340 billion market with dynamic content and personalized learning experiences,” said analyst Josh Bersin, CEO of The Josh Bersin Company. “Innovative products like Degreed Maestro and Degreed Open Library are here to help lead companies into this exciting new world of learning.”

We couldn’t agree more. We estimate enterprise organizations spend up to 50 times more on content than on learning software. Much of it goes unused, gets duplicated, or quickly becomes obsolete.

That’s why we’re introducing Degreed Open Library: A smarter way to deliver timely, targeted learning—powered by artificial intelligence—without the noise, complexity, or cost of traditional content libraries.

This isn’t just a new content solution. It’s a faster, more effective way to drive skill-building at scale—built directly into the Degreed platform at no extra cost.

AI-Powered Learning That Cuts Through the Noise

Degreed Open Library offers curated learning pathways built by AI and refined by human experts. They’re continually updated to reflect emerging trends and market needs. For a more personalized experience, pathways can be enhanced with embedded AI coaching.

Your people get fresh, engaging content—podcasts, articles, books, and more—ready to support skill development in the flow of work.

Need to move faster? Built-in AI summaries help people absorb key takeaways without watching a 30-minute video or reading an entire book.

Saving Budget & Driving Business Results

Learning content shouldn’t be your biggest budget line, or your biggest headache. Yet many organizations find themselves managing overlapping subscriptions and rising costs with little return.

Degreed Open Library helps break that cycle. It enables you to reduce or even eliminate redundant content subscriptions—and we estimate it can cut learning content spend by up to 20%. That frees up budget to invest in tools and technology that drive measurable business results.

Easy to Use & Fast to Implement

With 500+ expert-curated learning pathways aligned to trending topics and in-demand skills—like AI, leadership, and communication—Degreed Open Library is ready to go.

No complicated setup. No additional integration. It’s ideal for learning teams that need to move fast and make an impact, without adding overhead.

Tailored to Your Business Needs

Need something more customized?

Our AI-assisted pathway development significantly reduces the time and resources needed to build custom, structured learning journeys that upskill your people in the areas that matter most to your business. You let us know what topics and skills are important, and we’ll build high impact, up-to-date pathways so you can meet budget targets without sacrificing quality or coverage.

A Smarter Approach to Learning Content

The days of sifting through stale courses and disconnected content are over. 

Degreed Open Library delivers a streamlined, AI-powered experience that surfaces the most relevant, high-quality learning faster.

No more endless searching. No more wasted spend.

Just intelligent, personalized content delivery that integrates with your broader learning ecosystem and adapts to your business needs.

This is the future of learning content—where technology, skill data, and human expertise come together to deliver better outcomes at scale.

Find out more.

Let’s talk about how Degreed Open Library can help advance workforce development at your organization.

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I’ve joined more than 100 roadmap sessions and talked with learning leaders in 28 cities.

No matter where I go, the same themes keep coming up: CEOs want to future-proof the business, COOs want automation, and CFOs are demanding bottom-line contributions.

People are moving faster than ever—and yet the pressure builds.

The Workforce Transformation Imperative

Five years ago, the World Economic Forum estimated 50% of the workforce would need to be upskilled by 2030. Fast forward five years, throw in a little bit of Gen AI magic, and now that number is closer to 60%.

I’m no data scientist, but even I can tell that’s more skills to build and half the time to do it.

Learning teams around the globe are working tirelessly. Why? A company today can’t just hire the skills it needs. The talent isn’t out there. That company has to build it. And business leaders are scared. They know that the people that they have—and the skills that they have—are not those that they require for success in the future.

It’s why many learning leaders have AI enablement as the highest CEO priority. And they should.

Companies today need people who understand new technologies and people who understand core of business fundamentals. They don’t just need people who know AI. They need people who know the business and how to apply AI within it.

This is the moment for which Degreed exists. We make learning anything accessible. We make corporate learning enjoyable. We make a system that builds engagement and helps an organization deliver a culture of curiosity.

What a profound shame it would be if, at this moment of dynamic change, we couldn’t figure out how to use that system to help our colleagues succeed in this dynamic world.

AI and Its Immense Potential

At Degreed, we wake up every day focused on helping organizations:

• Pinpoint needs
• Personalize development
• Measure change

We know we need to make it easier for companies to align what their employees love to do with the outcomes that will make them relevant in the future.

Imagine if learning teams could deliver incredible, business-relevant content free of cost. Imagine if they could take that content and personalize it. Not for a job or a role or a function, but for an individual employee.

Imagine if a learning organization could rebuild L&D from the ground up the way learning leaders think it should be.

A learning management system (LMS) is good for compliance. A talent marketplace only helps 5% to 10% of employees. 

Forward-thinking organizations need more. This is what Degreed is working on, and it’s where we continue to head.

Aligning People to Needs

In the past 12 years at Degreed, we’ve indexed nearly 40 million content objects. We’ve mapped over 250,000 skills.

We’ve supported more than 10 million Degreed users. And we’re seeing that impact in the real world. At State Street, over 70% of employees learn with Degreed every month. At Volkswagen, a skills-first strategy with Degreed has already saved €2 million.

And now, we’re embedding AI directly into the flow of learning. We recently made three big product announcements:

Degreed Maestro Studio

This powerful tool enables your business to create and deploy customized and AI-native learning experiences easily designed to fit your needs. Maestro is already being used to democratize leadership coaching, scale simulations for sales enablement, and personalize skill development and evaluation. With Degreed Maestro Studio, you can further tailor each AI interaction to your organization’s needs.

Degreed Open Library

This vast resource is now available to every Degreed customer at no additional cost, featuring 500 deeply curated pathways on the most in-demand learning topics. Using AI and in-house expertise, we’ll continuously refine to ensure your organization always has access to high-quality and relevant learning content.

Degreed Maestro Services

This suite of services helps your organization maximize AI’s impact on learning while reducing costs. These include AI-assisted pathway development that leverages Degreed expertise and AI to create structured, high-impact learning journeys. These also include a custom AI experience deployment service for designing, building, and implementing AI-powered coaches and simulations tailored to your organization’s unique priorities.

This is where we’re going:

• More speed. Develop people faster than ever using Maestro, Open Library, and more.
• Less cost. Save budget with hundreds of Open Library pathways and AI-powered deployments.
• Bigger impact. Link learning to business outcomes. Track skills. Prove ROI.

And While We’re Talking About Content

It bears repeating: AI is going to transform the content experience.

Great content pulls at the heartstrings. It understands people’s rhythms. It keeps employees coming back for more.

Organizations are probably going to have more of this high quality content in their libraries moving forward.

Why? Because they’re going to have the budget for it. What’s going away is the mediocre content in the middle.

Companies are no longer going to have to buy an enterprise-wide library that gets 5% adoption just as an insurance policy, in case someone asks for executive presence training in a language that isn’t supported. This change will drive savings. And learning teams will be able to use those resources to invest in new, AI-native experiences. Things that are more engaging and more impactful. 

Employees will progress through learning content, and then when they have a question, they can grapple with that concept. They can engage with an AI mentor. They can test their skills and have much more impactful development experiences.

A Final Thought

Fifteen years ago, I asked a simple question: What will Fifth Avenue in New York City look like in the future?

Retail didn’t disappear. It evolved.

Like retail, work isn’t disappearing. It’s transforming. And that means people must transform too.

Find out more.

Check out our seven-part Degreed in Action webinar series to go even deeper on our innovations in AI and more.

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For enterprise leaders navigating transformation—whether it’s rolling out agentic AI, automating legacy processes, or entering new markets—the pressure to reskill fast is real.

The upshot? Skill data isn’t just an HR metric. It’s a strategic asset.

That said, many organizations are flooded with skill data yet starved for action. That’s where Degreed Skills+ can make a big difference. It doesn’t just surface skills. It uses them to create positive outcomes.

Step No. 1: Pinpoint Skill Supply and Strategic Gaps

Let’s say your CEO is investing heavily in agentic artificial intelligence to accelerate your product roadmap. HR and L&D leaders must identify skill gaps, define a build-buy strategy, and upskill the right people—fast.

Degreed Skills+ is designed for interoperability, not isolation. Integrations with platforms like Workday, SAP, and 80+ content providers help you streamline—instead of complicate—your data landscape.

Skills+ brings clarity to chaos by ingesting taxonomies from across your ecosystem—for example your HRIS, LXP, LMS, or talent marketplace—and using AI to normalize everything. That means cleaning up duplicates, aligning synonyms, and even generating skill descriptions and skill level definitions to reflect how your organization talks about and measures growth.

You stay in control of your taxonomy. The AI suggests, but you approve.

This reduces manual maintenance, increases reporting accuracy, and empowers IT and HR teams to move from data cleanup to strategic planning.

The result is high-fidelity skill data that reveals your true skill supply, pinpoints critical gaps, and gives you the visibility to align learning and talent development to workforce planning.

Step No. 2: Personalize Development at Scale

Once the gaps are clear, the next step is putting learning into action.

Skills+ powers highly personalized development across Degreed Learning. How? Because skills are embedded into the fabric of the platform. Search results, mentors, recommended experiences and more are tailored to each employee’s skill profile.

You can also create targeted Plans—on topics like “AI Fundamentals” or “Responsible Data Practices”—so employees know exactly what the organization wants them to learn.

Skills-powered automations—rules-based workflows designed to help the business deliver training, updates, and nudges at key employee moments—ensure essential content is assigned and followed up with nudges.

And Degreed Maestro, our AI purpose-built for learning, instantly generates custom Pathways based on employees’ unique goals, roles, or gaps—making learning feel personal and purposeful.

This isn’t just about consumption. It’s also about alignment—between business needs and individual growth.

Step No. 3: Measure Skill Growth and Prove Impact

Once the learning is in motion, how do you prove it’s working?

Degreed offers multiple ways to validate skill growth including AI-driven skill reviews, manager feedback, and robust analytics dashboards that help you compare current skill levels to skill levels before learning, so leaders get a live view of progress.

This closes the loop between strategy and execution—and gives you the confidence to report back to the business with real metrics, not just anecdotes.

From Complexity to Confidence

What once felt like a massive, messy problem is now a structured, data-driven process.

Degreed gives your people:

• A clear view of what skills they have and need.

• Personalized development aligned to business goals.

• Real, measurable progress in areas that matter.

Skills+ helps advance workforce development into something that’s not just efficient, but also strategic, approachable, and effective.

Find out more.

Let’s chat about how Degreed Skills+ can help you develop the skills your workforce needs next.

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The best learning platforms adapt to each user, teeing up workforce development that’s tailored to every employee’s specific needs.

With continual skill building increasingly critical to success in today’s AI-driven workplace, we’re always on the lookout for ways to deliver more and better customization. We understand employees need autonomy and direction. That’s why we’ve reimagined the Degreed homepage, providing a more guided and AI-powered learning experience.

To inform our redesign, we turned to some of the key insights found in our most recent biannual How The Workforce Learns report:

• 53% of employees prefer to learn on their own, but also want clearer pathways to career growth.
• 43% of employees say career performance is their top motivation, yet many lack visibility into what to learn next.
• AI is shaping the future of work, making it more important than ever to build adaptable skill sets.

Let’s take a closer look at how our new homepage functionality provides your people with greater control over their learning journeys—and helps your company strategically guide workforce development.

What’s new? More personalization.

The new Degreed homepage makes learning more relevant, intuitive, and effective.

Combining AI-powered recommendations, skill tracking, and personalized Pathways, it’s purpose built to help your people own their career growth and build skills faster. It makes personalized learning content more accessible than ever while giving your organization the tools it needs to develop a future-ready workforce.

A Homepage That Knows Your People

The new homepage greets learners by name and provides a dynamic, customizable view of their learning progress. With AI-driven recommendations, users see content aligned to their focus skills, goals, and career aspirations.

Smarter Learning Pathways

New tabs create a clear, structured learning experience while giving users the freedom to learn at their own pace.

New tabs include: 

• Assigned Learning. Focuses on required training and priority content.
• Continue Learning. Keeps in-progress courses easily accessible.
• Personalized Learning. Recommends content based on profile skills and AI insights.

AI-Powered Skill Development

With AI transforming jobs faster than ever, staying ahead means targeting the right skills.

Now, your people can:

• Filter content by specific skills to focus on what’s most relevant.
• View insight cards for real time information about their roles and organizational initiatives.

Insights That Drive Action

The Trending Content section spotlights popular resources across your organization, while Quick Links helps your company surface critical learning materials.

Guided Learning & Greater Autonomy

By blending AI-powered recommendations, skill tracking, and guided Pathways, we’re making it easier for your employees to take charge of their careers—while ensuring your organizations can align learning with business goals.

When skills define success, your workforce needs more than content; it needs a tailored, dynamic learning experience that evolves with each worker. The new Degreed homepage delivers on that—to help your people grow and your business thrive in an AI-driven world.

Find out more.

Let’s chat about additional ways you can help your people develop.

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