Jess Feldman
Updated June 16, 2025
When Kiffany Scammell was furloughed in 2020, she used the unexpected pause to reflect on her career path and take action. After discovering a newfound interest in analytics, Kiffany embarked on many Udacity courses that helped transform her career. Now a Senior Product Manager at Nordstrom, where she leads AI and machine learning initiatives, Kiffany shares why she continues to return to Uda...
Jennifer Inglis
Updated May 01, 2025
There’s no doubt that generative AI is changing the way companies do business, from content creation and product design to research and customer service chatbots and virtual assistants. With this increased use comes an ever-growing demand for tech professionals who can design, implement, and maintain this new technology, but also understand the ethical applications of AI. Whether you’re a dat...
Jess Feldman
Updated January 02, 2025
With the introduction of AI, 2024 saw companies and bootcamps working quickly to help workers acquire the needed skill set. Over the course of 2024, Online Program Managers (OPMs) saw major shake-ups with a key OPM’s sudden exit and suggested federal regulation folding. We’re closing 2024 with renewed funding for VET TEC on the horizon, and trends like skills-based hiring becoming more ingrai...
Jess Feldman
Updated April 22, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize the tech industry, mastering these powerful tools is essential for today's tech professionals. To help you stay ahead, we've curated a list of cutting-edge AI courses specifically designed for those already working in tech. Most of these courses require coding skills and a solid understanding of technical concepts, so they're also ide...
Jess Feldman
Updated April 01, 2024
This March, AI literacy, skills-based hiring, and apprenticeships continued to be top of mind in the coding bootcamp space. Three reports released this month detailed the rising importance of upskilling the current workforce on the use of AI. The federal government issued an executive order on creating more apprenticeship opportunities, and skills-based hiring saw a boost in overall job listi...
Jess Feldman
Updated January 31, 2024
Happy 2024! The demand for “New Collar” workers and skills-based hiring was a key takeaway from the news in January. Alongside the call for increased skills-based hiring, there were five programs conscientiously launching tech skills training this month that are either reduced tuition or totally free to students. At Course Report, we released our list of the 39 Best Coding Bootcamps of 2024 w...
Jess Feldman
Updated December 19, 2023
“AI” is the word of the summer, so we’re rounding up all the news we saw about how generative AI tools will support and expand the tech workforce… not deplete it. After a quiet first half of 2023, we finally saw news about recent coding bootcamp fundraises and acquisitions. We learned of two new ways you would fund your coding bootcamp experience: through Americorps or with your 529 account.&...
Nat Davis
Updated April 22, 2025
In 2024, AI is unavoidable in the modern workforce as tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing are incorporated into workflows across major industries from healthcare to transportation, manufacturing, retail, finance, insurance, and food tech. Even if you don't work in tech (yet!) you can likely still benefit from an AI intro course. As AI evolves to ease your workload and make you...
Jennifer Inglis
Updated March 04, 2025
If you’re a creative thinker and are looking for your niche in tech, you might consider becoming a designer. But you still have a few choices to make! Namely, should you choose web design or user experience (UX) design? While both are rooted in certain design principles, it’s important to understand what UX designers and web designers actually do in the real world. We’ll take a close look at ...
Rachel Meltzer
Updated February 19, 2025
An immersive data science bootcamp is the best way to make a full career change, but Python tutorials can be a great place to start your journey. Have you ever wondered, “What is Python used for?” Well, we’ve rounded up the best online Python courses, from tutorials to learn Python 3 to Python projects for beginners. Some of the best Python courses aren’t free, though, so we’ve included a few...
Rachel Meltzer
Updated February 19, 2025
An immersive data science bootcamp is the best way to make a full career change, but Python tutorials can be a great place to start your journey. Have you ever wondered, “What is Python used for?” Well, we’ve rounded up the best online Python courses, from tutorials to learn Python 3 to Python projects for beginners. Some of the best Python courses aren’t free, though, so we’ve included a few...
Jess Feldman
Updated March 11, 2021
Course Report · Coding Bootcamp News in Review: 2020
As we wrap up a very tumultuous year, we're taking a moment to round up all of the most impactful coding bootcamp news we saw in 2020. Follow along as we call out the top trends of 2020 and break down this year’s biggest acquisitions and fundraises in the bootcamp space. Plus, we’re sharing our predictions for 2021, how a new Biden/Harri...
Jess Feldman
Updated June 08, 2021
Course Report · November 2020 Coding Bootcamp News
This November, we’re talking about one major bootcamp acquisition and three fundraises (including one over $75MM)! But of course, the biggest news this November was the U.S. election, so we’re covering news about the Trump administration’s legacy on private education, and what the bootcamp industry can expect under the new Biden administra...
Jess Feldman
Updated October 29, 2020
Course Report · October 2020 Coding Bootcamp News
This October, workforce development was on everyone’s minds. In this new roundup, we’re covering the latest initiatives to lift up unemployed Americans and avoid a K-shaped economic recovery (we also included all of these initiatives in our new Guide to Workforce Development Grants). We’re also happy to cover several new scholarships...
Jess Feldman
Updated April 30, 2025
How does a website get its style? CSS, of course! But what exactly is CSS and how will you use it as a developer? Tech experts Joseph Mecham (Web Development Program Director at Devmountain) and Rob Merrill (Software Engineering Instructor at LearningFuze) explain in fun, beginner-friendly terms what CSS is, how it’s used by software developers, and how it works with other programming languag...