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Coursera: Yahoo! sponsors employees to earn Verified Certificates on Coursera
We’re excited to announce that Yahoo! is enabling its employees to earn Verified Certificates by sponsoring participation in Signature Track on Coursera. Here is a brief Q&A with Patricia Brogan, the Manager of Developer Academy at Yahoo!, to tell us more about this initiative: Hi Pat, can you tell us more about how Yahoo! decided to partner with Coursera on this initiative? In a recent internal survey of technical training needs, Coursera was identified as one of the best learning environments. Yahoo! has always been excited to encourage employees to participate in ways to continue to grow their technical skills, so this was a great opportunity for us to promote continued learning and development. Yahoo! allows employees to participate in the Signature Track program which verifies their identity and provides a certificate of completion. What is training like at Yahoo!? Yahoo! employs, trains and grows thousands of software engineers who are continually learning new sk…