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Free Online Course Connects Ex-Inmates With The Job Skills They Need

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Free Online Course Connects Ex-Inmates With The Job Skills T...

Imagine this scenario: Instead of a judge sentencing an offender to hundreds of hours of community service while behind ... Read more

How a Galway company leads the world in free online learning

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How a Galway company leads the world in free online learning

The growing availability of free online education is revolutionising how students all over the world learn. On... Read more

Just about anyone can study in this V@rsity

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Just about anyone can study in this V@rsity

“Mike Feerick has revolutionised the way learning is disseminated to people with little money and very little... Read more

Lessons from the CEO of the first ever MOOC

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Lessons from the CEO of the first ever MOOC

Peter High talks with CEO Mike Feerick about the genesis of the idea, his rationale for focusing on vocational trai... Read more

Teach a Man to Fish

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Teach a Man to Fish

Alison is a free vocational training to the world, CEO Mike Feerick believes it can reach a billion students before... Read more

Women beat men to acquiring online education

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Women beat men to acquiring online education

Mike Feerick highlights that more women are learning through online academic programmes compared to men. Read more

Alison, the MOOC for all

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Alison, the MOOC for all

France Info’s journalist Emmanuel Davidenkoff broadcasts a report about the success of the education model that is... Read more

The rural school as a laboratory for educational innovation

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The rural school as a laboratory for educational innovation

“A new era dominated by informal and immediate learning” – Alison CEO Mike Feerick Read more

View to a Skill: The Next Big Education Player?

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View to a Skill: The Next Big Education Player?

This is the biggest education provider you’ve never heard of. Read more

Building on education’s location indifference

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Building on education’s location indifference

Ireland had the opportunity to become the world’s new Open University, if our third-level system is the ... Read more

He’d like to teach the world – for free

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He’d like to teach the world – for free

Mike Feerick, founder of Alison, the free online educational site, has just won an innovation award at the Wis... Read more

Training the Global Workforce

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Training the Global Workforce

“I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I’d like it to be us.” Read more