Top Companies Work with University Partners to Help Create Capstone Projects with Real World Applications

Experts at top companies like Google and Instagram have joined Learning Platform to help develop the final projects – called “Capstones” – for Learning Platform Specializations.

Combining a curated series of courses with a final Capstone Project, Specializations help you master new skills with the best of university teaching and the real-time market perspective of top industry partners. Hundreds of thousands of learners have enrolled in Specializations since their launch in January 2014.

The following companies and business leaders are supporting upcoming Specialization Capstones:

• Instagram – Interaction Design, University of California San Diego (starts June 16th)
• Snapdeal & Shazam – Business Foundations, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (starts April 6th)
• 500 Startups – Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland (enroll anytime)

The first Capstones for Learning Platform’s Specializations were piloted with support from these companies:

• Google – Mobile Cloud Computing, University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University (enroll now in next session)
• SwiftKey – Data Science, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (enroll anytime)
• iHeartMedia – Modern Musician, Berklee College of Music (enroll now in next session)

The SwiftKey Capstone Project for Johns Hopkins’ Data Science Specialization has been particularly popular with learners, and the end results are inspiring. One learner, Alejandro Morales Gallardo, is most proud of the Predictive Text App he developed as a result of taking the Specialization: