Today at Udemy we are excited to announce a new partnership with Jack Welch as we launch a brand-new course in management training called Leadership in Action. The course, personally designed by Mr. Welch himself, is part of the Welch Way program in collaboration with the Jack Welch Management Institute and Strayer University.
Welch Way is a new, flexible, and modular program designed for both corporations and individuals looking to learn new leadership skills especially for the workplace. The interactive course contains over ten hours of content including Jack Welch keynote videos, self-assessment surveys, and playbooks. Students immediately gain applicable skills and knowledge based on Mr. Welch’s own experiences and proven techniques which have gone on to create 35 Fortune 500 CEOs.
Check it out here.
Some screen shots of the course-taking experience below:
As with all Udemy courses, Leadership in Action is on-demand; the course’s mobile-friendly design and support team of experts from the Jack Welch Management Institute enable students to access and apply Welch Way’s training material when they want it, where they want it. The course is even downloadable for offline viewing on mobile devices.
Leadership in Action is designed to last 4-6 weeks and is specifically targeted to today’s generation of employees where rich media interactivity and module-based content is key. Udemy’s unique technology platform facilitates this type of learning and allows the students of today to learn the skills they need to know to become the leaders of tomorrow. Not only students, but larger institutions and corporations are also seeing great value from Udemy’s powerful platform and are leveraging Udemy’s learning technology to bring the very latest in education directly to the fingertips of their global audience in the most efficient and effective way possible.
My co-author Rich Halverson was a graduate student in Learning Sciences at Northwestern and I mentioned that I was planning to teach a course on the History of Education Reform. Since he had been a history teacher in a Chicago high school, he offered to co-teach the course with me. As we talked about the course and taught it, we decided to write a book describing how education is being transformed by the digital revolution. Our tentative title was The Second Educational Revolution and we wanted to describe how we were in the midst of a revolution like the one we went through from an apprenticeship-based education system to a schooling-based system starting in the 1830s. The first revolution took 100 years to develop the school system we know today and we think it will probably take 100 years for the current revolution to come to fruition. We are about 30 years into it, so we have a long way to go.
