by prasidp | Feb 24, 2022 | Business Courses, Careers
Apprenticeships—once a commonplace feature of the American economy, but for the last 30 years has been in decline—are the critical link to closing the skills gap for employers and reducing unemployment for millennials. You see, if you ask any VP of Engineering or CTO,...
by prasidp | Feb 24, 2022 | Online Learning
I’ve spent eight years in the ed-tech space, working on Microsoft OneNote, digital textbooks, and crowdfunded student loans, so you could say I’m a student of students. I’ve also dreamed of starting a company and learning to code, so I signed up for Codecademy in...
by prasidp | Feb 24, 2022 | Online Learning
The Low End of the University Market is Crumbling Last week for-profit education company Apollo Education Group announced it is being sold and taken private. Its most well-known educational institution, the University of Phoenix, has been plagued by...
by prasidp | Dec 29, 2020 | Featured, Online Learning, Web Development
I got fired from my job as Director of Marketing at SoFi (now worth over $4Bn). On that day, I decided I was fed up with being so replaceable and vowed to learn to code. My upskilling journey led me to join an online coding bootcamp (Bloc.io), then Codecademy.com, and...
by prasidp | Dec 22, 2020 | Online Learning
One of the most common questions we used to get at Bloc (a company for coding bootcamps that has since been acquired by Chegg) is: “Don’t I need a Computer Science Degree to become a developer?” The answer, in our opinion, is no. Last year President Obama pointed to...
