Area9 Lyceum Blog

Ulrik Juul Christensen, CEO of Area9 Lyceum, shares his reflection about the importance of creating a learning culture and the value of investing in learning. I am often asked “What if you educate your employees and they leave?“, and I respond “What if you don’t and they stay?” Don’t encourage dependance! Here is why: What changes […]

Stefaan van Hooydonk, the founder of the Global Curiosity Institute, shares his reflection about “What I learned from training 15,000 people on curiosity”. It started on one of those blue Mondays in 2018. I had been thinking the entire weekend why the new company wide culture program my team and I had been launching only […]

There is a lot of discussion these days about upskilling and reskilling to close competency gaps and help people be more prepared for the workforce of the future. In this way, upskilling and reskilling are at the heart of intentional career development, as organizations align the development of their people to specific knowledge and skills needed […]

Case Study Shows Surprising Results for Greener Footprint Across the global economy, industry-wide solutions are needed, from “greener” electrical power grids to reducing emissions from agriculture. Education, too, has a crucial role to play, not only in providing knowledge, building skills, and encouraging innovation, but also as being part of the solution. While there is a great need […]

Area9 Lyceum to Offer Complimentary Education for Healthcare Professionals Area9 Lyceum is now offering complimentary access to the AACC Learning Lab: an adaptive learning program housed on the NEJM Knowledge+ platform. The goal is to expand and enhance the knowledge of laboratory medicine experts and promote their problem-solving abilities. Now, the cost of the Learning Lab is being eliminated for […]

As the Covid-19 pandemic caused widespread disruption in every industry, none felt the pressures of sweeping change and the critical need for frontline response more than healthcare. As healthcare professionals worldwide cared for escalating numbers of patients, the life sciences industry rose to the challenge with vaccine research that compressed into months what normally would take years […]

In a world in need of sustainable development, education remains key. In fact, Quality Education is the fourth of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—recognized as a catalyst toward “socioeconomic mobility and … escaping poverty.” The pandemic, however, has threatened that progress, with 91 percent of students worldwide impacted at some point by temporary school closures and […]

Newly published research has shown that personalized, online preparation for doctors taking board certification examinations can build competence and make a measurable difference. Specifically, physicians who used NEJM Knowledge+ performed better on their exams by a statistically significant margin than a well-matched control group. Some of the most rigorous aspects of medical education are the extensive board […]

How long does it take to learn a programming language? Obviously it depends, but estimates range from three to six months. How, then, do Area9 programmers become productive in as little as two to four weeks? The secret, as we’ve often said, is personalization. Computer programming is inherently an iterative process: writing lines of code, testing the […]

COVID-19 CYTOKINE STORM – What it means and why we need to learn about it. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with a wide spectrum of disease severity, with up to 20% of patients developing severe disease and progressing to life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome. The immune response in coronavirus infections, […]