Udacity teams up with Google, AT&T and other tech giants for Open Education Alliance— from gigaom.com by Ki Mae Heussner
Summary:
Online education startup Udacity says it’s partnering with a group of leading technology companies to better prepare students for work in the 21st century.
From DSC:
If the corporate world starts going further down this path — opting for alternatives to the historical means of filtering job candidates and for preparing their future hires — the only thing that I will be able to say with certainty is that the record will show that those of us working within higher ed didn’t learn a thing from/about:
- The Internet’s affect on other industries
- The disruptive power of technologies
- The need to reinvent oneself — and to innovate and adapt