{"id":83255,"date":"2022-10-09T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=83255"},"modified":"2022-10-09T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:16:40","slug":"this-company-aims-to-become-the-amazon-of-lifelong-learning-mollenkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/10\/09\/this-company-aims-to-become-the-amazon-of-lifelong-learning-mollenkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"This Company Aims to Become the Amazon of Lifelong Learning [Mollenkamp]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2022-09-28-this-company-aims-to-become-the-amazon-of-lifelong-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>This Company Aims to Become the Amazon of Lifelong Learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Daniel Mollenkamp<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Singapore-based company Genius Group<\/strong><\/span> has turned some of its attention to the U.S. edtech market recently.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhile some companies have seen layoffs, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">the Genius Group lifelong <em>learning<\/em> <em>platform<\/em> is growing among users at a rate of greater than 50 percent, they claim. Currently, it has 2.7 million students across 200 countries, according to its website.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBut we decided that rather than looking to solve the problem for just some, if we could be one of the companies that was looking to solve it for all, that would be a great market opportunity for us. And at the same time, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>it would be something which would enable us to attract the best educators, and the best content creators from around the world as well.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>[The intent was] to really tackle the full, lifelong learning journey that we&#8217;re on, and to put in place a pathway, and more importantly, a platform that would enable anyone to be able to come and take their curriculum, bring it on board, and in the same way that YouTube allows anyone to be a creator.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also from Edsurge.com, see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2022-10-06-inventing-a-job-skills-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Inventing a Job-Skills Machine<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; by Rebecca Koenig<br \/>\n<em>A free tool makes it easy to design credentials around job skills. Are colleges ready?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Company Aims to Become the Amazon of Lifelong Learning &#8212; from edsurge.com by Daniel Mollenkamp Excerpt (emphasis DSC): The Singapore-based company Genius Group has turned some of its attention to the U.S. edtech market recently. &#8230; While some companies have seen layoffs, the Genius Group lifelong learning platform is growing among users at a [&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":[842,314,237,95,55,7,838,510,15,62,309,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-asia","category-entrepreneurship","category-global-globalization","category-internet","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-lifelong-learning","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83255","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=83255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83269,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83255\/revisions\/83269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}