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COMPANY NEWS: The pandemic caused a massive uptick in online learning, with RMIT Online supporting over 23,000 enrolments in 2022 to rapidly introduce a range of different online courses including Blockchain, eCommerce, 5G, Mixed Reality and Project Management. This demand from students increased the pace of operations with expectations to build more courses while maintaining and refreshing existing content.

RMIT has announced the appointment of experienced digital operative Nic Cola as chief executive of its online arm.

The digital skills gap is costing Australian businesses $3.1 billion annually, but closing the current digital skills gap would take an investment of $1.5 billion, a new study by RMIT Online and Deloitte Access Economics reveals.

As most employees return to work after lockdown, the conflict about the office’s role between business leaders and employees is generating tension in what an RMIT Online report calls ‘The Office Clash.’

RMIT Online partners with Canva to a create three human-centred design courses to equip students and mid-career designers with hands-on capabilities in design thinking, user experience, and prototyping.

Demand for RMIT Online’s master programs has jumped during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the biggest increases for logistics and data science degrees reflecting the explosion of ‘big data’ and the movement to online purchasing away from in-store sales, while lockdowns have boosted overall demand for online learning.

RMIT has announced a new bachelor of business degree which it says is aligned with industry needs and the future of work, specifically designed to give students and working professionals transferable skills and a sound business technology understanding.

Red Education already operated training hubs across ANZ, Asia and the Americas, and has now expanded into Europe.

Promising its new program "upskills" accounting practitioners with technology, analytics and strategic capabilities to navigate industry evolution, RMIT Online wants you to count by accounting better.

With the iOS App Store well known to outsell the Google Play store, and with iOS regularly getting apps first, with a big recent example being Clubhouse that is still iOS only, Apple has noted that "despite the economic impact of COVID-19, the Australian app economy is driving consistent growth with 156,000 jobs as of January 2021, an increase of 15% since 2019 and up from 113,000 in 2017."

RMIT Online has introduced two new postgraduate programs that equip students with high-demand technology skills in emerging specialisations, including cyber security and blockchain-enabled business.

A new online short course from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) aims to provide people in technology and management roles understand the benefits and processes of integrating DevOps within their business.

RMIT University is establishing a Cyber Ready Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC).

After the successful launch of Australia’s first blockchain university short course, Developing Blockchain Strategy, RMIT Online has announced the launch of two additional blockchain courses that will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the technology, including the understanding of how to design blockchain infrastructure, to further their skills and learn how to think strategically about implementing a blockchain solution into the core of their businesses.