The last few years have seen considerable changes in how Technical Training from Arm is delivered. Due to COVID-19, live, in-person training was changed to live virtual training, which in turn evolved into on-demand video training. These have been two seismic shifts.
As AI becomes the norm, we will once again see a huge change in the way training is created and consumed.
One thing that is clear is the more videos we create, the better the chance of AI channels being able to serve this up in direct response to training needs. AI-enhanced search, based on accurate AI-produced transcripts, suddenly makes video as easy to search and access as text-based content but the added engagement that video brings.
It has been pleasing to see an increase in active users on the on-demand platform following the changes we have made to it in 2024.
Arm On-Demand active users 2023 vs 2024
With the decommissioning of the Arm developer store, one of the changes we have made is to offer partners access to the Arm On Demand community without fees. For more details on what is included and how you can register please visit our Arm Developer Page.
Arm Developer Page
We have also lifted the limit on the number of users that Arm Total Access and Arm Flexible Access partners can add to the platform. Making it easier for everyone to benefit from the technical training resources.
The Instructional Design team and Application Engineers (AEs) have been working hard to fill training gaps for IP available within Arm Flexible Access and Arm Total Access subscriptions. By the end of FY2024, all existing gaps will be filled, enabling us to meet all training requirements with on demand training.
Most popular on-demand training topics 2024
2024 has been an incredibly busy year for our video production team, especially between October and January, when we produced over 80 videos. This included new IP content like Neoverse Compute Sub System and Firmware training modules, and the completion of Cortex-A3x and Cortex-M0 Hardware courses.
To maintain our production pace, we are continuously improving our development processes. One significant change is the adoption of Asana as our project management tool. Asana allows the team to instantly see what is being worked on, helping us manage our workload more efficiently.
We are also implementing AI to create captions, ensuring our content is accurate and accessible to our global audience. Accurate captions benefit our viewers, make translation more manageable, and provide source content for other AI tools. Using CaptionHub, a project that would have taken three days to semi-manually caption, was completed in just a few hours.
One reassuring feature of CaptionHub is its human-curated Arm dictionary, which helps avoid common errors like "cause" instead of "cores" or "amber" instead of "AMBA." Our goal this year is to perfect the English captions, with future plans to incorporate machine translation and even re-voicing.
AI-Generated transcript and translation with Arm-specific dictionary
Additionally AEs have been using Microsoft CoPilot to help create module learning objectives and provide a first draft of quiz questions, dramatically speeding up the process.
A prompt to create assessment, for example, could be uploading your PPT to Co-pilot and saying:
"Can you create a multiple choice quiz based on this PowerPoint - I need a set of 15 questions with the answers highlighted so I can put it into an online learning quiz. I would also like feedback comments for each answer which I can add to the quiz to give users more information."
A prompt to separate a long SVE technology module into sections could be:
“I need to create a multiple-choice quiz based on the content of this presentation relating to the 6 main sections. So 5 questions per section covering the overview, streaming SVE mode, ZA vector array, ZA Tiles, ZA Mapping, and the SME Lookup Table. I need them to be multiple choice with the correct answer highlighted so I can use it for elearning.”
While the output is not perfect, it provides a kick-start to creating questions and content that can be adapted for use with online learning.
The online MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) site Coursera continues to be a popular platform for Engineers to learn, bringing Arm Training to where many learners are. In 2022, we uploaded a course introducing Cortex-M software development. Despite no recent content being added in 2024, it is pleasing to see interaction levels slightly ahead of the previous year with the existing Cortex-M Profile Training.
Coursera active users 2023 vs 2024
Building on the successes and initial steps taken in 2024, 2025 looks to be an exciting year ahead. Our on-demand video training content will be accompanied by accurate transcripts translated into many local languages. These transcripts can then be recreated in audio using ever-improving voice cloning technologies, further improving our partners' learning experience. These will be prioritized in line with the needs of the local AE team and partner
Work will also progress on our open-source training via Coursera. Adding new AMBA content to the platform and aligning it with Arm Education content, providing a single end-to-end learning journey for SoC developers. The Fuse On Demand Training platform will also see improvements, with search results integrated into the Arm Developer