Viridis Learning Expands Online Workforce Education Coursework Collection and Enriches Educational Programming

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Viridis Learning announced today a strategic partnership with Pearson, the world's leading learning company that provides learning services, technologies, and assessments to institutions, educators, professionals and students across the world.

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The alliance further expands Viridis Learning's substantial collection of online course offerings by providing users access to Pearson Workforce Education online courses. This added curriculum includes, but is not limited to: Advanced Manufacturing, Business and Professional modules, Green/Sustainability, Health Careers, IT, Project Management/Quality and Software Development, and foundational Workplace Readiness courses.

After extensive market research, multiple technology innovations, and pilot studies that yielded a 93% completion rate, 70% placement rate and 65% job retention rate amongst users, Viridis Learning is a powerful enterprise employability solution that enables students and job seekers to identify and pursue long-lasting, fulfilling and highly individualized career pathways systemized by proprietary algorithm technology.

For education professionals and career counselors, Viridis Learning offers a customizable, one-stop case management tool that enables administrative workers to measure and interact with students seamlessly along that pathway in real time. The unique job-matching program is reinforced with an arsenal of all-inclusive educational resources and certification programs coupled with sophisticated earnings and qualification assessment tools that empower individuals to realize their full employment potential. Also complementing Viridis Learning's technology platform is a growing network of more than sixty partners, including Coca-Cola, Comcast and Hyatt, who can evaluate job candidates efficiently and effectively based on Viridis Learning's exclusive employability score.

"We are dedicated to providing our rapidly growing and diversifying consumer base with unrivaled access to leading technology and pioneering curriculum. Viridis Learning's individualized career pathways will boast even stronger employability value through the addition of Pearson Workforce Education courses," says Viridis Learning founder and CEO Felix W. Ortiz III. "Partnering with Pearson accelerates our platform's current trajectory to becoming a globally recognized solution that addresses the current industry skilled worker shortage."

About Viridis Learning
Viridis Learning is a technology start up company based in New York City, founded in 2009 by entrepreneur Felix W. Ortiz III. Having served in the U.S. Army 18^th Airborne Corp and as a member of New York City Mayor DeBlasio's Technology Subcommittee Transition Team, as well as on President Obama's Advisory Group Transition Team for International Trade & Economics, Ortiz alongside Viridis Learning's COO and eight-year U.S. Navy SEAL veteran Jake Bullock, recruited an impressive and very involved board of directors and advisors for Viridis, including: Retired U.S. Army Chief Of Staff George W. Casey Jr., Former President of Costa Rica and Managing Director of The World Economic Forum Jose Maria Figueres, former Education Secretary William Bennett, former Governor Bill Richardson, Current CEO of Hope Street Group & Former President of ACT Workforce Education Martin Scaglione, Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox Quesada, Director of Starbucks, Former Executive Vice President of Partner Resources of Starbucks Corp, & Former Chief Personnel Officer of Taco Bell/ KFC, Olden Lee, as well as several other high-profile political, corporate and non-profit leaders. For more information visit https://viridislearning.com.

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