By George Avalos, Contra Costa Times
Education is getting a boost from a world of mobility and anytime, anyplace broadband communications. Several up-and-coming companies — including Udemy, Udacity, Khan Academy, 2U and Coursera — are offering ways for people to educate themselves online, with many courses geared toward practical knowledge and skills for a fast-changing and often forbidding economic landscape. “Online learning is not new, but what is new is what is possible now with the technology that is available to us,” said Clarissa Shen, a vice president with Mountain View-based Udacity. “There is a huge amount of scale and the experience is very rich.”
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