Dive Brief:
- A MOOC in a technical topic can help IT professionals who want to advance their careers or people who want to change careers, employers say.
- There's a catch, though: Applicants need to have projects to show how they’ve used the skills they learned online.
- Some employers are open to MOOCs in part because they're not putting a strong emphasis on education of any sort — they're far more interested in what candidates have proven they can do.
Dive Insight:
It makes sense that the information technology sector would be relatively open to MOOCs — besides the fact that MOOCs are based on a backbone of information technology, the information changes so quickly that conventional education may have a hard time keeping up in some areas.
