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Don’t get fired: Simplilearn helps you keep your professional skills up-to-date (exclusive)

You missed it. Your skill set may now be obsolete. Simplilearn wants to help employees keep up with the fast-moving, competitive professional world. The online training and certification provider released a mobile application today and announced a partnership with Udemy. Simplilearn claims to be the world’s largest certification training provider for working professionals. Now its 80 certification courses are available on both smartphones and feature phones. The days when people can learn one skill and nourish it over the course of their career are quickly fading. This is where Simplilearn steps in. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are playing a major role in making education more accessible. Simplilearns’ niche is corporate certification. Through the partnership with Udemy, Simplilearn’s project management professional training will be available to all Udemy users.

Udemy is one of the most well-known MOOCs on the market. Online and Classroom Training for Professional Certification Courses. The Teaching and Learning Application. Meet Lesson.ly, A Training-As-A-Service Startup That Is Clocking Quick Revenue Growth. If you work for a large company, you likely dealt with an onboarding process.

Meet Lesson.ly, A Training-As-A-Service Startup That Is Clocking Quick Revenue Growth

Perhaps little quizzes or pamphlets. I recently enjoyed this precise exercise while joining TechCrunch a few months ago, given that our corporate boss AOL is a fan of all things ancient. The gist is that corporate training is a pain in the ass for the poor schmuck on the receiving end, as well as for those who have to get new recruits up to speed. Lesson.ly wants to change that by providing a flexible, online software solution to help businesses train new employees. Corporate training-as-a-service is the play. The sexiest thing online? As a service, Lesson.ly is currently functional, and attractive, though not as deep in its feature set as it needs to be. Companies using the product can create courses for their employees, assign each to various individuals, track their progress, and quickly view scoring. Of course, companies can quickly white-label their tests, keeping their brands on top. Iversity Open Courses — Education for everyone.

Make an online course in one hour. Coursmos Is A Bite-Sized E-learning Platform For The Twitter Generation. “When you’re pitching Dave McClure — or any other seed investor — you have to start with any kind of traction.”

Coursmos Is A Bite-Sized E-learning Platform For The Twitter Generation

So begins one of the lessons on Coursmos, an iOS app designed for our attention-strapped times. The Russian startup behind the app reckons it’s spotted a soundbite-sized gap in the e-learning delivery space. Unlike the long-form commitment (of at least weeks) required to take a typical MOOC, its online courses are broken down into “smaller, more manageable chunks” — basically minutes-long video lessons that can be gobbled down on your phone on the bus to work. It’s e-learning for the Twitter generation. A sprinkling of micro-courses to go with your micro-blogs. “People have a desire to learn, but most MOOCs are set up similar to offline, classroom-held courses. “Coursmos’ micro-course formats provide quick-to-digest, low-commitment lessons that course takers can complete when they have three free minutes, not thirty.” Where is Coursmos getting its course content from? Iversity Open Courses — Education for everyone. Home - UnCollege. University. SkilledUp - Find the best online courses, tutorials and educational resources for free.

Canvas Network. Learn. Collaborate. Innovate. Take online courses from top Universities and educational institutions. FREE Online Study For Everyone - NEVER STOP LEARNING. Online and Classroom Training for Professional Certification Courses. COPIA. Education Search Done Right. FutureLearn — Learning for Life. Mooc.org.