A Unesco award-winning social enterprise, ALISON is based on the principle that the opportunity now exists to make almost all basic education and skills training available to anyone, anywhere, for free. Through online advertising and nominal fees for premium content, ALISON has developed a sustainable and highly scalable business model to remove the cost of access to high quality education. Since launching in April 2007, ALISON has developed relationships with prestigious institutions and companies involved in promoting education including Stanford, MIT, Google and Microsoft, allowing online learners to earn recognized qualifications in areas as diverse as accounting, entrepreneurship and web development. In Ireland, 31,000 people have taken free online training courses with over 750 now certified.
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