Coursera is unveiling a new machine learning tool to show companies what skills their employees are acquiring from its classes.
The conundrum of corporate online learning: There are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies often don’t know what content to offer their employees. And once companies do choose a learning program, it’s tough for them to figure out what skills their employees pick up and to what degree they’ve mastered them.
Measuring up: A new feature from Bay Area startup Coursera lets companies that subscribe to its training programs see:
—which of their employees are earning top scores in Coursera classes
—how their employees’ skills measure up to their competitors’
—what courses would help fill any knowledge gaps
The impact: Coursera expects the skills-benchmarking information, which will be updated daily, to be useful to learning and development specialists, HR professionals, and hiring managers. But, as our own Elizabeth Woyke writes, it’s also bound to rankle some Coursera learners who don’t want their bosses making employment decisions based on their online-learning performance.
SOURCE: THE DOWNLOAD MIT
The conundrum of corporate online learning: There are so many classes available from sites like Coursera, edX, and Udacity that companies often don’t know what content to offer their employees. And once companies do choose a learning program, it’s tough for them to figure out what skills their employees pick up and to what degree they’ve mastered them.
Measuring up: A new feature from Bay Area startup Coursera lets companies that subscribe to its training programs see:
—which of their employees are earning top scores in Coursera classes
—how their employees’ skills measure up to their competitors’
—what courses would help fill any knowledge gaps
The impact: Coursera expects the skills-benchmarking information, which will be updated daily, to be useful to learning and development specialists, HR professionals, and hiring managers. But, as our own Elizabeth Woyke writes, it’s also bound to rankle some Coursera learners who don’t want their bosses making employment decisions based on their online-learning performance.
SOURCE: THE DOWNLOAD MIT
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