Dive Brief:
- Capital One Financial Corp. and online learning platform Grovo announced the Future Edge Digital Literacy Challenge at the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting this week.
- The challenge will make available a free digital literacy curriculum to prepare low- to moderate-income adults for better-paying jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree but need basic competency with computer fundamentals, the Microsoft Office Suite, and digital communications.
- The curriculum includes a series of 60-second videos followed by short quizzes aimed at improving retention, which Capital One hopes to make available to 15,000 people over the next three years along with Grovo’s wider training platform.
Dive Insight:
Grovo's 60-second training videos are a method of microlearning meant to work well with modern attention spans. Some of the companies it works with use its platform to do employee training. The partnership with Capital One Corp. will bring its digital learning curriculum to a wider audience, helping lower-income Americans become more marketable in their job searches and achieve greater earning potential.
The Clinton Global Initiative provides a mechanism for partnerships like this one every year, bringing together the people addressing some of the most pressing social challenges of the time. With the fall of the U.S. manufacturing economy, workers need digital skills to find family-supporting wages. The Grovo-Capital One partnership should help address this need.