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Coursera: Coursera for Your Career: Professional Training Done Right
A typical corporate training program for Brian Buckley, Vice President for Enterprise Architecture at Dublin-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, consists of taking time off work, flying to London and spending thousands of pounds on expenses–all for an excessively expensive program that squeezes in too much material in too short a time. Brian Buckley, VP for Enterprise Architecture at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, independently took Stanford’s Machine Learning to perform better in his job. He’s not a fan. “We just can’t do that,” he said, explaining that executives like him cannot afford this sort of a disruption to their schedule on a regular basis. He thinks corporate training, in its current form, is inflexible and antiquated. After frustrating experiences with traditional professional development programs, Brian choose to independently take a course on Coursera. He chose Stanford University and Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning to learn abo…