{"id":42495,"date":"2013-09-17T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=42495"},"modified":"2013-09-17T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:03:54","slug":"wharton-puts-first-year-mba-courses-online-for-free-lavelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/09\/17\/wharton-puts-first-year-mba-courses-online-for-free-lavelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Wharton puts first-year MBA courses online for free [Lavelle]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-09-13\/wharton-puts-first-year-mba-courses-online-for-free\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wharton puts first-year MBA courses online for free<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from\u00a0businessweek.com by\u00a0Louis Lavelle<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bschools\/rankings\/full_time_mba_profiles\/wharton.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wharton<\/a> MBA involves taking off from work for two years, moving to Philadelphia, and spending about $200,000 on tuition and expenses. Now, with the addition of three new courses on the online learning platform Coursera, you can get much of the course content for free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While you won\u2019t get the full Wharton on-campus experience\u2014or an internship, career services, or alumni network, for that matter\u2014the new courses in financial accounting, marketing, and corporate finance duplicate much of what you would learn during your first year at the elite business school, says Don Huesman, managing director of the innovation group at Wharton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wharton puts first-year MBA courses online for free &#8212; from\u00a0businessweek.com by\u00a0Louis Lavelle Excerpt: Getting a Wharton MBA involves taking off from work for two years, moving to Philadelphia, and spending about $200,000 on tuition and expenses. Now, with the addition of three new courses on the online learning platform Coursera, you can get much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,379,505,239,62,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-mba","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42497,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42495\/revisions\/42497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}