{"id":109989,"date":"2020-07-15T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/google-announces-100000-scholarships-for-online-certificates-in-data-analytics-project-management-and-ux"},"modified":"2020-07-15T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:42:57","slug":"google-announces-100000-scholarships-for-online-certificates-in-data-analytics-project-management-and-ux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/google-announces-100000-scholarships-for-online-certificates-in-data-analytics-project-management-and-ux","title":{"rendered":"Google announces 100,000 scholarships for online certificates in data analytics, project management and UX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-announces-100000-scholarships-for-online-certificates-in-data-analytics-project-management-and-ux.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The certificates do not require a college degree, can be completed in 3 to 6 months and are offered through an online learning platform.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today, Google announced three new online certificate programs in data analytics, project management and user experience design.<\/p>\n<p>The certificates are created and taught by Google employees, do not require a college degree, can be completed in three to six months and are offered through the online learning platform Coursera. Google says it will consider all of its certificates as the equivalent of a four-year college degree for related roles at the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not revenue-generating for Google,\u201d says Google vice president,<strong> <\/strong>Lisa Gevelber, who leads Grow with Google and Google for Startups and serves as the company\u2019s Americas chief marketing officer. \u201cThere\u2019s a small cost from the Coursera platform itself \u2014 the current pricing is $49 a month \u2014 but we want to ensure that anyone who wants to have this opportunity, can have it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The certificates do not require a college degree, can be completed in 3 to 6 months and are offered through an online learning platform. Today, Google announced three new online certificate programs in data analytics, project management and user experience design. The certificates are created and taught by Google employees, do not require a college [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}