Skills Development

Learn.com Announces Free Online Education

Sunrise FL (USA), March 2009 - Learn.com has announced the launch of their Personal Edition in April 2009. The Learn.com Personal Edition (LPE) will prepare the displaced workforce affected by the downturn in the world economy to improve their hirability and competitive advantage.




Users of the Learn.com Personal Edition will be able to select any desired job profile and take essential training in order to acquire the skills needed to achieve a Learn.com SkillScore® for that job. Users may also create their own content for publication and revenue sharing. The Learn.com SkillScore tracking will allow individuals to be business-ready for new jobs and will provide employers with comfort in knowing these candidates do not need the typical three-to-six months of job on-boarding to acquire the required skills to be an exemplary performer.


Throughout the month of March, the first 500,000 registrants on Learn.com's new Personal Edition Website, found at www.learn.com/personal will receive a premium ninety-day pass providing them with access to more than 1,000 courses, multiple job profiles, and the ability for them to create their own courses for re-sale. Topics for these courses include medical and financial training, accounting, college courses, sales skills, Microsoft Office and Windows courses, and other general business skills and certifications.


"Learn.com grew up on the web providing individuals one central location to learn, teach, and meet. This new Personal Edition is a culmination of a decade's work and will be the world's largest source of formal and informal education and training in a self-paced and structured format," said Jim Riley, Chief Executive Officer at Learn.com.


"This site will allow individuals to search the top job profiles in the United States, visually see the required skill sets, and immediately begin to take the training mapped to those skill sets. Furthermore, this site will enable any subject matter expert in the world to create and publish a course, lesson, or knowledge object of any kind to the user-generated content library within the site and allow that author to share in revenue generated by their content. The Learn.com Personal Edition™ is truly - the smartest place on the web."