{"id":56597,"date":"2016-09-01T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56597"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:31:32","slug":"coursera-for-business-launches-to-tap-the-billion-dollar-corporate-e-learning-market-sawers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/09\/01\/coursera-for-business-launches-to-tap-the-billion-dollar-corporate-e-learning-market-sawers\/","title":{"rendered":"Coursera for Business launches to tap the billion-dollar corporate e-learning market [Sawers]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2016\/08\/31\/coursera-for-business-launches-to-tap-the-multi-billion-dollar-corporate-e-learning-market\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Coursera for Business launches to tap the billion-dollar corporate e-learning\u00a0market<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Paul Sawers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/photo_20160831_160517-930x692.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Online education company Coursera has launched a new business-focused offering aimed at giving enterprises a direct pipeline for training and development resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Founded out of Mountain View, California in 2012, Coursera partners with universities and other educational institutions to serve more than 20 million online students a range of courses across business, technology, science, and more. Now, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/enterprise\" target=\"_blank\">Coursera for Business<\/a>, the California-based company has opened itself to additional revenues from the lucrative corporate e-learning market, which some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20160129005032\/en\/Global-Corporate-E-learning-Market-Reach-USD-31\" target=\"_blank\">reports suggest<\/a> was worth $12 billion in the U.S. alone in 2015 and could hit $31 billion globally by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/08\/31\/coursera-expands-into-corporate-learning-and-development\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Coursera expands into corporate learning and development<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; techcrunch.com by Lora Kolodny<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Coursera, the education tech platform that offers online courses from prestigious colleges and universities, is branching into corporate learning and development\u00a0 and has officially launched Coursera for Business today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Coursera CEO Rick Levin, formerly the president of Yale University, told TechCrunch that the move was a natural one for the startup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWe have 21 million registered users and are adding about half-a-million registered users per month. When we looked at the email addresses of our learners\u2026 we would see thousands signing up from one corporate email domain, ten thousand in one case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That was an indication large employers already were, or would be interested in using Coursera to help employees with professional development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coursera for Business launches to tap the billion-dollar corporate e-learning\u00a0market &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Paul Sawers &nbsp; &nbsp; Excerpt: Online education company Coursera has launched a new business-focused offering aimed at giving enterprises a direct pipeline for training and development resources. Founded out of Mountain View, California in 2012, Coursera partners with universities and other [&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":[387,174,112,200,62,118,367,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-career-development","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-online-learning","category-training-corporate-universities","category-vendors","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56602,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56597\/revisions\/56602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}