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    As a hugely popular free resource worldwide, millions of people around the world are interested to read and hear about Alison, its free learning mission, its learner stories, its new courses, its founding principles and stories of how it is empowering people and organisations around the world.

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    Making magic with free online learning

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    Making magic with free online learning

    When Mike Feerick, the Founder and CEO of Alison, a pioneering e-learning organisation, decided in 2007 to make online e... Read more

    calendarMay 01, 2015

    Free Online Course Connects Ex-Inmates With The Job Skills They Need

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    Free Online Course Connects Ex-Inmates With The Job Skills T...

    Imagine this scenario: Instead of a judge sentencing an offender to hundreds of hours of community service while behind ... Read more

    calendarJanuary 19, 2015

    How a Galway company leads the world in free online learning

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    How a Galway company leads the world in free online learning

    The growing availability of free online education is revolutionising how students all over the world learn. On... Read more

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    Just about anyone can study in this V@rsity

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    Just about anyone can study in this V@rsity

    “Mike Feerick has revolutionised the way learning is disseminated to people with little money and very little... Read more

    calendarJuly 10, 2014

    Lessons from the CEO of the first ever MOOC

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    Lessons from the CEO of the first ever MOOC

    Peter High talks with CEO Mike Feerick about the genesis of the idea, his rationale for focusing on vocational trai... Read more

    calendarDecember 31, 2013

    Teach a Man to Fish

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    Teach a Man to Fish

    Alison is a free vocational training to the world, CEO Mike Feerick believes it can reach a billion students before... Read more

    calendarNovember 23, 2013

    Women beat men to acquiring online education

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    Women beat men to acquiring online education

    Mike Feerick highlights that more women are learning through online academic programmes compared to men. Read more

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    Alison, the MOOC for all

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    Alison, the MOOC for all

    France Info’s journalist Emmanuel Davidenkoff broadcasts a report about the success of the education model that is... Read more

    calendarNovember 06, 2013

    The rural school as a laboratory for educational innovation

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    The rural school as a laboratory for educational innovation

    “A new era dominated by informal and immediate learning” – Alison CEO Mike Feerick Read more

    calendarNovember 03, 2013

    View to a Skill: The Next Big Education Player?

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    View to a Skill: The Next Big Education Player?

    This is the biggest education provider you’ve never heard of. Read more

    calendarOctober 30, 2013

    Building on education’s location indifference

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    Building on education’s location indifference

    Ireland had the opportunity to become the world’s new Open University, if our third-level system is the ... Read more

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    He’d like to teach the world – for free

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    He’d like to teach the world – for free

    Mike Feerick, founder of Alison, the free online educational site, has just won an innovation award at the Wis... Read more

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