{"id":50634,"date":"2015-06-03T10:35:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=50634"},"modified":"2015-06-03T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:35:06","slug":"an-increasingly-popular-job-perk-online-education-mcintire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/06\/03\/an-increasingly-popular-job-perk-online-education-mcintire\/","title":{"rendered":"An increasingly popular job perk: Online education [McIntire]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/an-increasingly-popular-job-perk-online-education\/56771\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>An increasingly popular job perk: Online education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Mary Ellen McIntire<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Southern New Hampshire University has become the latest institution to team up with a major employer to make online courses a benefit of employment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A partnership between Southern New Hampshire and Anthem Inc., a health-insurance company, will allow some 55,000 Anthem employees to <a href=\"http:\/\/collegeforamerica.org\/anthem-announces-a-national-partnership-with-cfa-to-provide-a-free-college-degree-for-any-eligible-employee\/\" target=\"_blank\">earn<\/a> associate or bachelor\u2019s degrees through the university\u2019s College for America, a competency-based assessment program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The announcement is one of several recent deals between a college and a corporation that will expand higher-education opportunities for employees at no or reduced cost, following a high-profile deal, <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/StarbucksArizona-State-U\/229127\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced last year,<\/a> between Starbucks and Arizona State University. On Monday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/05\/04\/chrysler-free-college-tuition\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced a similar arrangement<\/a> with Strayer University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An increasingly popular job perk: Online education &#8212; from chronicle.com by Mary Ellen McIntire Excerpt: Southern New Hampshire University has become the latest institution to team up with a major employer to make online courses a benefit of employment. A partnership between Southern New Hampshire and Anthem Inc., a health-insurance company, will allow some 55,000 [&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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,86,209,389,112,200,533,3,180,15,239,62,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-competency-based-learning-education","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-lifelong-learning","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50634","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=50634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50635,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50634\/revisions\/50635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}