"That's starting to change as Coursera beefs up its career services and adds the ability to earn certificates from taking its classes," argues our education technology expert Rip Empson.
As to its campaign, while it's easy to see this as a brilliantly calculated marketing move — as playing PR off of bad news to try to pick up some potential leads — the startup deserves props for providing an opportunity for the recently-laid off to improve their position in the world and for offering them the ability to take its class for free.
Most staff members reported for work anyway, and the center recovered enough to continue serving the hundreds of Westchester residents who take its classes in art, dance, music, theater and other subjects.
Rich stumbled on Senior Planet during a walk in 2012 and then took its classes to learn online skills.
During the pilot in India, the team found that a majority of its students took its classes to re-skill themselves, but a good number of students also entered its programs without any previous coding experience.
San Mateo, CA-based BrightEdge is taking its enterprise-class, on-demand SEO platform global today.
In addition, Mr. Farris is the founder and president of Patrick Henry College, the nation's first post-secondary institution designed for home-schooled students and a training ground for Christian political advocates, which will take its first class of 100 students this fall.
With the approach of spring, weekend soccer practice is again taking its place as a middle-class American ritual.
Ballet Theater stars and the likes of Fonteyn, Nureyev and Allegra Kent took its professional classes.
Bernie Sanders tapped into this and it's not impossible to imagine that an NDP that gets its shit together and takes its working-class roots seriously might do the same in this country.
