Cengage Announces Plans to Expand its Online Skills Business
September 23, 2020 at 02:27 pm
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Cengage announced plans to expand its Online Skills business. Through its current ed2go business, Cengage is already a recognized provider of online instructor-facilitated courses and career training programs for the adult continuing education and training markets. Leveraging its portfolio of globally recognized content and deep understanding of the digital learning experience, Cengage aims to build on current success and greatly broaden its offering in this rapidly growing segment. To respond to this immediate need during the COVID-19 pandemic, ed2go offered several of its most relevant self-paced tutorials for free this past Spring. These courses focused on topics that help people acquire new skills such as website development, management, communications, and personal finance. In the course of 10 weeks, ed2go had more than 300,000 enrollments – a fifty-fold increase over historical enrollments. Cengage Online Skills will continue to focus on the growth and development of ed2go and other existing skills offerings. Additionally, the expanded Online Skills business will include dedicated R&D, working directly with students, employers and educators to remain at the forefront of innovation that best supports learners.
Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc. is a global education technology company. The Company is organized into three core business units: Cengage Academic business, Cengage Work business, and Cengage Select. In the Cengage Academic business unit, the Company integrates U.S. Higher Education, International Higher Education and Secondary Education in order to leverage synergies across these businesses that share content, technology platforms and support services. The Cengage Work business unit services the workforce skills market and includes the Companyâs ed2go and Infosec businesses that leverage all the Companyâs relationships, content, and data to drive growth. The Companyâs third core business unit, Cengage Select, consists of four businesses, English language teaching (ELT), Research and Other (Australia K-12 and Milady), each serving select markets and customers. The Company serves the higher education, secondary education, workforce skills, ELT, and research markets around the world.