The policy proposal described here by the German IT site golem.de is at the same time surprising and at the same time really not: The heads of the CDU, the biggest party in Germany, calls for a state-Coursera.
The platform is to be government run and each course has to be government certified. Apparently, they want to use 10% of the nations education budget for it. 3 billion per year. The proposal states that the existing on-the-job education offerings, e.g. for learning a new software framework, were too convoluted and not all certified by a government agency. "Convoluted" is German for "organized by competition". The term is always used when there are more than three competitors in a market. Oh, it is so convoluted, they start to shout. So, this has to change because "Germany".
As always, 5-10 years too late? This clearly already exists and wasn't too successful after an initial hype. At least, I would call it bold to promise 10% of the education budget towards this.
