This morning Alan Eustace, SVP of Engineering and Research at Google, blogged that 2011 will be the biggest hiring year ever at Google. This is great news for computer scientists and programmers with the right skills and experience in web and mobile applications. And it’s not just this year, in 2010 Google added over 4,500 [...]

Marketplace education exists when individual contributors, or teams of contributors, build and deploy lessons and courses to a framework where students can vote material up or down. Voting can take the form of traditional rating systems or direct spend in terms of time and money. In any sort of marketplace the best products, services and [...]

Since January 3rd of 1971, Open University has been broadcasting academic television and radio programs in arts, sciences and mathematics through the BBC network. These programs have educated hundreds of millions of students around the world reaching an estimated 300 million from 2009 to 2010 alone. What’s most impressive to us here at Turing College [...]

Internships have long been a form of job preparation and resume building for college level students. What better way to demonstrate skills and adapt to the functioning workplace environment than through apprenticeship study? In fields such as computer science, internship completion is nearly mandatory to get a job out of school unless the student has [...]

Despite what you may have been taught or observed in the college level marketplace, good education is not a function of time. There is something very wrong, and limiting, with the assumption that achievement results purely from time spent. Especially when that time is arbitrarily fixed for a broad and unrelated set of curriculum. However [...]

There is a fundamental disconnect between the way we learn and the way we are taught. Outside of institutions of higher learning, education tends to follow a very simple, and very effective, pattern as follows: Step 1: Identify new knowledge or skills required to complete a task Step 2: Learn said knowledge or skills Step [...]