TechCrunch reports on Facebook’s collaboration with General Assembly to create an online training opportunity for the social network’s app developers:
The new co-designed curriculum will teach aspiring developers how to develop social applications on the Facebook platform. “Facebook is happy to be working with General Assembly to help developers and would-be developers learn how to leverage the power of social,” they write in a statement to TechCrunch.
As they report, this is a big step forward for both the data-mining social network and for General Assembly:
While social applications have become big business, it is uncommon for a university to offer such industry-specific training. Indeed, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan once called Career and Technical Education “the neglected stepchild of education reform.”
General Assembly has experienced rapid expansion from its New York Origins by wrapping startup-specific training from programming to management courses around a co-working space for technology startups. The new partnership with Facebook helps give this new educational alternative a big advantage over universities that have trouble keeping pace with rapid industry innovation.
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