Google-backed online learning service Udacity is partnering with local organizations to teach people tech skills so they get promoted at work
Insider talked to Kovach and other graduates from Udacity's"nanodegree" program, a three-month long training program, about how they made theKovach found Udacity through a Facebook ad, where Udacity advertised tech classes in partnership with OhioMeansJobs, a public program for Ohio job seekers.
After completing the program, Kovach brought more search engine strategies to her current job, and said she got a pay raise for her efforts. According to a 2020 survey of Udacity's 128,000 Nanodegree program graduates, half of the participants got a 33% median increase in pay. "My college courses — obviously I learned a lot, but a lot of it isn't as relevant anymore," Kovach said."You learn a lot of fundamentals, but not so much application because in college it was never a thing. That's the advantage of online learning platforms, they can change in real time."
Kovach's journey follows a similar path to other graduates from Udacity, which is partly backed by GV, the VC arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc. While Udacity customers Theresa Newman and Nikitha Rao were not a part of Udacity's public scholarship program, they also found that a traditional four year college degree didn't adequately prepare them for the necessary career transitions they wanted to make into tech.
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