{"id":74334,"date":"2021-02-27T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74334"},"modified":"2021-02-27T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:00:09","slug":"2u-guild-education-partner-to-expand-online-education-for-adult-workers-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/02\/27\/2u-guild-education-partner-to-expand-online-education-for-adult-workers-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"2U, Guild Education Partner to Expand Online Education for Adult Workers [Wan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2021-02-24-2u-guild-education-partner-to-expand-online-education-for-adult-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2U, Guild Education Partner to Expand Online Education for Adult Workers<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Tony Wan<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">But the current crisis is anything but, and an increasingly remote workforce will only accelerate the need for new skills and habits to keep companies running.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n2U, a publicly traded company, will make its degree programs, short courses and online coding \u201cbootcamps\u201d available to Guild Education\u2019s network of employers. That\u2019s over 500 programs, spanning more than 30 disciplines, that they will have access to. It\u2019s largely up to the employer to choose which ones they want to subsidize for their workers, Freedman says.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cBusinesses are eliminating some roles, yet are desperate to hire for others. But you cannot hire away to solve what is fundamentally a training problem.\u201d In other words, it makes more sense to invest in training internal talent, rather than firing people and hiring replacements.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2U, Guild Education Partner to Expand Online Education for Adult Workers &#8212; from edsurge.com by Tony Wan Excerpt: But the current crisis is anything but, and an increasingly remote workforce will only accelerate the need for new skills and habits to keep companies running. &#8230; 2U, a publicly traded company, will make its degree programs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[374,842,174,86,112,200,237,533,180,7,838,510,62,436,310,212,118,321,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-alternatives","category-career-development","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-innovation","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-online-learning","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving","category-training-corporate-universities","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74334","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=74334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74336,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74334\/revisions\/74336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}