{"id":52159,"date":"2015-10-27T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=52159"},"modified":"2015-10-27T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T15:48:40","slug":"will-setting-up-nanodegrees-become-a-competitive-necessity-for-os-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/10\/27\/will-setting-up-nanodegrees-become-a-competitive-necessity-for-os-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Will setting up nanodegrees become a competitive necessity for OS providers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thetechportal.in\/2015\/10\/19\/google-teams-up-with-udacity-introduces-tech-entrepreneur-nanodegree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google teams up with Udacity to introduce a new tech entrepreneurship nanodegree<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from thetechportal.in by Mir Juned Hussain<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Google, during\u00a0its I\/O 2015 developer conference in May had announced a partnership\u00a0with Udacity to launch <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>a six-course Android Development Nanodegree.<\/strong> The company wanted to allow\u00a0developers to learn how to write apps for Google\u2019s mobile operating system.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"more-26254\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Surprisingly,<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> these new Nanodegrees turned out to the most popular ones by Udacity, attracting more than\u00a0300,000 people to enrol in the courses. The web giant wanted anyone, technical or not, to learn not just the basics of how to build Android, iOS, and web apps, but also to explain what it takes to design, validate, prototype, monetize, and market app ideas.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a part of that initiative, Google has now introduced a new\u00a0Nanodegree, which will consist of a\u00a0Tech Entrepreneurship certificate, access to coaches, guidance on your project, help staying on track and career counseling. If all you want is\u00a0the content, quizzes, and projects, all of that is available online for free at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/udacity.com\/google\" target=\"_blank\">udacity.com\/google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">This item made me wonder:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Will setting up nanodegrees become a trend for OS providers?\u00a0 That is, will Google be more successful in the marketplace than either Apple or Microsoft if they develop a series of nanodegrees?\u00a0 In fact, taking that one step further&#8230;will doing so become a competitive necessity for OS providers?\u00a0 For other software-related vendors? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hmmm&#8230;.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google teams up with Udacity to introduce a new tech entrepreneurship nanodegree &#8212; from thetechportal.in by Mir Juned Hussain Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Google, during\u00a0its I\/O 2015 developer conference in May had announced a partnership\u00a0with Udacity to launch a six-course Android Development Nanodegree. 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