{"id":53175,"date":"2016-01-14T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=53175"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:35:32","slug":"interesting-a-new-job-guarantee-from-udacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/01\/14\/interesting-a-new-job-guarantee-from-udacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting&#8230;&#8221;A New Job Guarantee&#8221; from Udacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.udacity.com\/2016\/01\/a-new-job-guarantee.html\" target=\"_blank\">A New Job Guarantee<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from udacity.com by Sebastian Thrun<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 2010, we started Google x to pursue moon shots, moving impossible ideas into reality to change people\u2019s lives forever. In education, the biggest moon shot is connecting learning to jobs. Get an education to get a job to change your life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[On 1\/13\/16], we launch[ed] a new program at Udacity, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udacity.com\/nanodegree\/plus\" target=\"_blank\">Nanodegree Plus<\/a>. Earn a Nanodegree credential and we will guarantee you a job within six months of graduation, or give you 100% of your tuition back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Over the last 18 months, our Nanodegree programs have begun to emerge as the place to go to learn technical skills to get a new job or advance a career. They are backed by companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, GitHub and AT&amp;T among others\u2014teaching students the latest technical skills for today\u2019s workforce. Already, Udacity graduates are working at companies like Google, Nest, Accenture, AT&amp;T, Amazon, Salesforce, Rakuten, Verizon, Goldman Sachs, Intuit and many others in Silicon Valley and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Job Guarantee &#8212; from udacity.com by Sebastian Thrun Excerpt: In 2010, we started Google x to pursue moon shots, moving impossible ideas into reality to change people\u2019s lives forever. In education, the biggest moon shot is connecting learning to jobs. Get an education to get a job to change your life. [On 1\/13\/16], [&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":[174,505,239,62,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175","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=53175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53213,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53175\/revisions\/53213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}