The newest entity to try to close the skills gap for “working learners” will focus on curating community colleges’ online offerings.
SANTA FE, N.M. — After many years as a backwater, the landscape of entities seeking to improve the education and training of adults is getting crowded.
Companies like Google and Amazon Web Services have fast-growing offerings of their own for would-be workers. Numerous public college and university systems, including the California Community Colleges and the University of Massachusetts system, are creating online institutions aimed to serve working learners and the millions of adults with some college and no degree.
And a growing group of intermediaries, such as Guild Education and InStride, from Arizona State University, are stepping in to try to connect employers with the offerings of educational providers.
A new player hopes to step into that fray next year, differentiating itself from those already in the space with the goal of collecting and distributing the best noncredit offerings from a cohort of leading community colleges to those institutions and their local employers.