Library Offers Free Online Courses To Help The Unemployed
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Union Tribune: 7.21.2020 by Linda McIntosh
The Oceanside Public
Library provides free online skill-development courses to help unemployed,
furloughed or part-time workers get back in the job market. The courses are
offered through the Coursera for Workforce Recovery program, administered
through the library and made available by Coursera in response to people losing
their jobs because of the pandemic.
Folks can self-enroll in 40 curated
collections of courses or view and enroll in any of the more than 4,000 course
offerings from universities across the world.
The courses range from computer
programming, digital literacy, data analytics/business analysis and software or
app development to entrepreneurship, web design project management, marketing
and business English among others.
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“The courses offered are taught by
instructors at leading universities around the world,” said Chelsea Genack
Eggli, literacy coordinator at the Library’s
READS Learning Center, which offers access to the Coursera program along
with other virtual learning programs. READ
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