{"id":74719,"date":"2021-03-27T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=74719"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:38:56","slug":"a-new-online-tutoring-market-has-emerged-in-construction-it-requires-a-surprising-number-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/03\/27\/a-new-online-tutoring-market-has-emerged-in-construction-it-requires-a-surprising-number-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Online Tutoring Market Has Emerged \u2014 In Construction. It Requires a Surprising Number of Books."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2021-03-25-a-new-online-tutoring-market-has-emerged-in-construction-it-requires-a-surprising-number-of-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A New Online Tutoring Market Has Emerged \u2014 In Construction. It Requires a Surprising Number of Books.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Rebecca Koenig<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There\u2019s a high-stakes exam that\u2019s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s not the SAT, or the MCAT. In fact, it\u2019s not related to academic admissions at all. Yet it has generated lots of online guides and courses, and studying for it requires many, many books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s the exam to become a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascla.org\/page\/AccreditedExams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">licensed construction contractor<\/a>. And companies that offer remote instruction to help tradespeople get ready to take the test say business has been booming during the pandemic\u2014perhaps driven by the fact that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/blue-collar-jobs-boom-as-covid-19-boosts-housing-e-commerce-demand-11613903402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">demand for construction workers is high<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Online Tutoring Market Has Emerged \u2014 In Construction. It Requires a Surprising Number of Books. &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Rebecca Koenig Excerpt: There\u2019s a high-stakes exam that\u2019s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. It\u2019s not the [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[842,219,279,69,309,196,269,248,321,367,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-online-tutoring","category-participation","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-professional-development","category-relationships","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-vocational-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74719","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=74719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74720,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74719\/revisions\/74720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}