Some of you reading this blogpost are looking for a job. Many who will read this want to improve their income and would love a higher-paying job. There will even be readers who are tired of working for someone else and have to get education and that might be standing in their way if their finances are not great and they can't afford thousands of dollars for an Ivy-League education.
Whatever you reason for reading this post, I hope the content will be a life-improver for you. What I am sharing with you I am going to do for myself and my family and learn mover.
I found an organization that sincerely wants to be part of changing the world. They started in April 2012 and have created partnerships with Universities so they can offer a wide variety of University courses for Free.
I've never seen anything like this in the world and there hasn't been until now. I was so happy to find this source and if I just found it, I couldn't waste any time getting the information out to you because I know there must be a skill or a class you'd like to get under your belt and get good at. Some of you will go on to mastery and do amazing things.
This post is meant as a source of encouragement, because let's face it, if you're not being as successful as you want to be right now, regardless of how talented and get you have been in your life, it's time to take action. You can't control anyone else, but you can take a course, complete it, learn something, and then let the world know you have this education and use it to the best of your ability to do something positive.
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This is all very new and once enough people know about this site it will probably become on of the hottest and biggest in the world..That's my prediction. For now, it's our secret so enjoy and get educated.
I was in a seminar and the leader said, "If you're not learning, someone else is.. and when you meet, guess who has the advantage?" I know that here in Las Vegas where the competition for jobs is pretty fierce, one of the best things you can do beside network and meet people who can connect with you jobs, is to build skills, and be able to document "Current Education " on your resume.
There are so many people we've met over the last few years who have 15-25 years of working experience and they still want to or have to be out there to earn a living to support themselves and their families and to have money for retirement. Sadly too many people have lived off of their money which was planned for retirement and they have to make money and get caught up with their savings so they can retire.
Millions of Americans took a financial hit and wiped out everything they had accumulated and then had their equity turned into nothing with the real estate housing bust. It's sad, it's tough, and none of that will pay the bills. Get some education under your belt, connect with new sources of networking, and possibilities and take action.
According to Coursera.Org, "Our hope is to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available to only a select fee. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, improve the lives of their families, and improve the communities they live in.
To date, there are 33 Universities participating with Coursera.Org by offering courses and the list keeps growing. The Universities partnering with Coursera include: Princeton, Rice University, John Hopkins University, Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The University of British Columbia, The University of California at Irvine, The University of California at San Francisco, The University of Edinburgh, The University of Florida, Berklee College of Music, Brown University, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University, Ecole Polytechnic Federal de Lausanne, Georgia Institute of Technology, Herbrew University of Jerusalem, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, John Hopkins University, University of Melbourne,University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and University of Toronto.
To get a better understanding of how big a deal this in for a company to create this educational opportunity which they hope will help millions of people to improve their lives, the media coverage about Coursera.Org has been extensive. Articles have appeared in Forbes, The New York Times, on the BBC, Slate, Fast Company, Digital Trends, The Wall Street Journal, CNET, Business Week, USA Today, The Globe and Mail,Tech Crunch, and now this blog.
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Here's a little about the Founders of Coursera.Org , some of the Funders of the site, and some of the media attention they've been receiving since their launch.
Coursera.Org was started with 2 Founders: Daphne Koller and Andrew NG. Daphne is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford. In 2011 she was inducted into the National Academent of Engineering. Andrew is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and the Director of the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Lab.
The Funders helping to make Coursera.Org a reality include : John Doerr, Partner in Kleiner Perkins Caufield&Byers; and Scott Sandell, now General Partner of NEA. Scott says his focus in investments are in " informational technology and alternative energy."
The team at Coursera.Org has more than 20 members and they share some of their background on the site which includes that 16 of them attended Stanford University and 18 of the 20 on the team studied computer science in college.
University Courses are presented for Free at http://www.coursera.org
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