Educational Technology

March 26, 2018

TECH COMPANIES TRY TO RETRAIN THE WORKERS THEY’RE DISPLACING

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:35 am

by Sandra Upson, Wired

Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda says the platform had not previously hosted anything similar; more typical fare includes programming, business and English language classes (along with the popular-among-Canadians Mountains 101). But Maggioncalda and his staff had seen the hunger for onramps to tech careers in the reviews visitors had given earlier courses. “People are saying, I know the jobs are going to be in computers and technology, and it’s great to tell me I should get those jobs. But I don’t know how to do that,” he says. “You tell me how I’m supposed to do that with a family and a mortgage.”

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-companies-try-to-retrain-the-workers-theyre-displacing/

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