Moocs could do for skills what iTunes did for music - Peter Casey, Business Irish

The key is Ireland's potential role with Tata in the development of Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs). These are courses which are published and promoted on the internet and promise to do for education accessibility what iTunes did for music. MOOCs are rapidly gaining popularity worldwide and cover a massive range of topics, immediately addressing current urgent business needs, such as the latest in predictive analytics, data structures and algorithms. TCS has pioneered the most developed learning exchange platform there is, which combines the power of MOOCs with community-structured learning spaces. It is using it to astounding success in India, where they have 650,000 learners and 32,000 teachers engaged. http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/moocs-could-do-for-skills-what-itunes-did-for-music-30784458.html