Career Academy, Needham

Established in 1999 by tech expert Samson Chu and business leader Joel Kestenberg, Career Academy trains business professionals with a self-guided video curriculum. Programs include Office Productivity and Project Management certification as well as IT certification training and information-security strategies that go beyond changing all of your passwords to the name of your _other_ dog. Most of the expert instructors boast decades in the tech industry, and many are successful business owners in their own right.