Non-University/For-Profit Lynda.com and the Rise of Online Education - WADE ROUSH, Xconomy

Did you think that graduating from high school or college meant your education was finished? Think again. Even assuming that you were paying attention in every class—and who among us really was?—you probably weren’t being taught the skills you need to succeed in a modern workplace, understand complex business issues, or excel at a high-tech hobby. I’m talking about things like accounting and finance, digital photography, game design, social media marketing, video editing, or Web graphics. For help mastering these kinds of subjects, your options were always pretty limited. You could get a friend to teach you, or you could take an extension or community-college class, or you could buy one of the “For Dummies” books. That was about it. But that’s all changing fast. Thanks to the spread of broadband Internet access and a huge drop in the costs of video production, more and more schools, scholars, startups, and individual authors are putting instructional video online. http://www.xconomy.com/national/2013/03/28/knowledge-when-you-need-it-lynda-com-and-the-rise-of-online-education/