Saturday, January 22, 2022

2022: Year Of The Great Convergence - Ryan Craig, Forbes

In just five years, employers have gone from providing employees with libraries of mediocre asynchronous online courses that few complete to courses from top universities and free online degrees. Coursera is selling over 4,000 courses, 100 skillsets, and 1,000 guided projects to enterprises. Guild has revolutionized the sleepy tuition-benefit sector, transforming employer-sponsored degrees into a welcome ray of light in the gloomiest enrollment landscape in modern history. The level of activity has become frenetic over the past year as Covid’s twin labor market legacies – accelerated digital transformation and the Great Resignation – have crystalized.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancraig/2022/01/07/2022-year-of-the-great-convergence/