Teach a Man to Fish

With a staff of 30, most with Masters or PhD qualifications, Galway-based ALISON is making huge waves in a niche sector of education, which itself is causing more than a ripple worldwide. Founded by Mike Feerick in 2007, ALISON (Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online) is part of the Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC, movement. But unlike others in the space, such as Coursera and edX, ALISON’s free courses are vocational rather than academic...read more.