These days almost anything can be learned via online courses or instructional videos, and Google is acknowledging that with the release of a new schema markup specifically for courses! Shoutout to Aaron Bradley who spotted this first and shared it on Twitter.
Google introduces rich snippets for courses (before #schema.org/Course live) – https://t.co/IqslsDCHiD h/t @suzukik pic.twitter.com/5MU9VomfSB
— Aaron Bradley (@aaranged) September 13, 2016
This markup can specify the course title, provider, and offer up a short course description – resulting in the following possible search result:
Here is what the markup looks like for the the new courses schema:
Read more about the new markup here.