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Employability solutions company Aspiring Mind and edX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative composed of the leading global institutions of the xConsortium including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, and IIT Bombay, today joined hands for mutual collaboration.
The collaboration is aimed to enable more than one million people enrolled with Aspiring Minds to receive employability advice through their flagship product AMCAT. The recommendation engine will enable students to find and access edX courses that address their specific skill gaps, in specialties ranging from math, to science, to technology, and beyond.
Aspiring Minds’ users who complete edX courses will be awarded edX course certificates, and these credentials will be integrated within their AMCAT user profile. Aspiring Minds conducts AMCAT, which is employability test for students to evaluate their employability skills. Further, Aspiring Minds will invite all students from India who complete edX courses to the AMCAT platform and expose them to its 450 plus corporate clients.
"We are delighted to work with edX and expose a million AMCAT-takers to edX courses which will be disruptive in helping them improve their employability. Secondly, students who complete edX courses show great initiative and skills. They deserve to be visible to our 450+ corporate clients for job openings, it being a win-win situation for both students and companies," said Varun Aggarwal, co-Founder and CTO, Aspiring Minds.
India has emerged as edX’s second biggest market after the US universities. These institutes use EdX’s open source learning platform and course offerings worldwide to develop innovative online, on-campus, and blended teaching and learning models.
Anant Agarwal, edX president, said that this collaboration will help complete the employability circle-from need-gap assessment, to addressing and fixing skill deficiencies, to finally finding the perfect employer-employee match.
