About Skillbase
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What's the problem?
There are so many options for learning, but it's hard to know where to start or which resources to use! It is easy to get lost, and it is hard to choose the right courses that will be helpful for the workplace.
How can Skillbase help?
Skillbase will show you how to learn practical skills for future or current jobs. We identified the skills which employers across industries and job roles have rated as being the most important to learn. Then we picked content that is easy to use and contains relevant and valuable information.
Who are we?
Skillbase is an initiative of the Project on Workforce at Harvard, a collaborative project between the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Managing the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Skillbase is created and run by a group of Harvard students, graduates and faculty with experience in education, technology, business, and job training. Our mission is to connect family, friends, and coworkers to online learning that can help them return to work and access better jobs.
While the Skillbase site is maintained by Harvard affiliates, the learning resources on the site are not made or owned by and do not represent the university. We think that you will find the resources we link to be useful, but, by using Skillbase, you will not complete Harvard courses and will not earn a Harvard degree.
How was Skillbase made?
We tried and tested all of these resources ourselves, and we only included resources we think are well designed, easy to use, and informative.
What are our goals with this project?
Our goal is to help learners going through a career transition or looking for job-related skills by:
1. Providing access to high quality resources made by learning organizations
2. Easy navigation of available online learning resources
3. Providing completely free resources
A bit more about our approach:
We followed a simple three-phase approach to building this platform:
1. We researched the skills employers ask for.
2. We looked for free resources on the internet.
3. We picked the most useful resources to share with you.
The learning resources are created by independent 3rd parties, not by Skillbase. We review the resources and provide links to learn in an easy to use way, but we cannot control the 3rd party sites or what they do when you learn on their site. Whenever you click on a link and leave the Skillbase site, please review the privacy policies and terms of use for each new learning site you are taken to.