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edX: Using the Power of Social Media to Find Your Next Job
Why edX Certificates Can Help Your Job Search and How to Add Them to Your LinkedIn Profile. On the hunt for a new job? Looking to switch careers? If you’re actively searching and applying to jobs, adding an edX certificate to your LinkedIn profile can help highlight to future employers your latest skills and achievements. With an increasingly competitive job market, it’s important to set... Read More about Using the Power of Social Media to Find Your Next Job The post Using the Power of Social Media to Find Your Next Job appeared first on edX Blog.
edX: Personalised Learning: Teaching in the Age of Technology
Teaching today is a very different practice to what it was just a decade ago. Kindergardern to year 12 teachers have needed to keep up with a rapidly changing world to ensure their students are prepared for it. Like many other institutions, education has turned to technology to bring teaching into the 21st century. With technology, the classroom has become an immersive learning space, and... Read More about Personalised Learning: Teaching in the Age of Technology The post Personalised Learning: Teaching in the Age of Technology appeared first on edX Blog.
edX: EdX Partners Top U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings
EdX founders, Harvard and MIT, top the list of best global universities. Recently, U.S. News & World Report released its 2017 rankings of the Best Global Universities, and among the top ten universities are edX partners UC Berkeley, Caltech, Princeton University and Columbia University, as well as edX founders Harvard and MIT, who claim the top two spots on the list. EdX’s global consortium of partners is... Read More about EdX Partners Top U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings The post EdX Partners Top U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Rankings appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Yet Analytics Demonstrates New xAPI Data Visualization Capabilities at DevLearn by News Editor
Yet Analytics leverages the Experience API specification to collect activity and human performance data from a wide range of sources. At this year’s DevLearn, the data analytics startup will present new data structuring and real-time visualization capabilities for xAPI.
Learning Solutions Magazine: How Well Do Employees Know Basic Tools? by Pamela S. Hogle
Employers might assume that employees who’ve been using MS Office tools for years know how to use them correctly. But how many employees use blank lines instead of paragraph spacing—or copy and paste repeating elements in PowerPoint because they don’t know how to use slide masters? The good news is, there is a simple, low-cost fix for this problem: eLearning.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Yet Analytics Demonstrates New xAPI Data Visualization Capabilities at DevLearn by News Editor
Yet Analytics leverages the Experience API specification to collect activity and human performance data from a wide range of sources. At this year’s DevLearn, the data analytics startup will present new data structuring and real-time visualization capabilities for xAPI.
Learning Solutions Magazine: How Well Do Employees Know Basic Tools? by Pamela S. Hogle
Employers might assume that employees who’ve been using MS Office tools for years know how to use them correctly. But how many employees use blank lines instead of paragraph spacing—or copy and paste repeating elements in PowerPoint because they don’t know how to use slide masters? The good news is, there is a simple, low-cost fix for this problem: eLearning.
Coursera: Coursera Insights: A survey of young professionals in the UK helps us identify the challenges they face in reaching their life goals
By Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera At Coursera, we envision a world in which anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to high-quality education. We’re making great progress toward realizing that vision - we’ve built an innovative technology platform to provide a rich online learning experience, and we’ve worked with top universities to make more than 1,600 top-quality courses and Specializations available to anyone with an Internet connection. But we also know that simply making content available isn’t enough. To provide our learners with the best possible support, we need to understand the factors that may be holding them back. That’s why we recently commissioned research into the challenges that today’s young professionals face, with a particular focus on adults aged 22-35 in the United Kingdom. The results of this research are both troubling and promising. It is clear that this generation feels uncertain about the future, and a…
Coursera: A survey of young professionals in the UK helps us identify the challenges they face in reaching their life goals
By Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera At Coursera, we envision a world in which anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to high-quality education. We’re making great progress toward realizing that vision – we’ve built an innovative technology platform to provide a rich online learning experience, and we’ve worked with top universities to make […] The post A survey of young professionals in the UK helps us identify the challenges they face in reaching their life goals appeared first on Coursera Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Watershed Essentials to Launch During DevLearn 2016 by News Editor
Watershed is introducing its new product offerings, ranging from basic to advanced learning analytics as well as enterprise solutions. This includes the launch of Watershed Essentials, which provides out-of-the-box functionality and is designed for L&D practitioners who want to start tracking and exploring learning outside an LMS.
Learning Solutions Magazine: 'Tis the Season: Use “Guerrilla-Style” eLearning to Train Holiday Hires by Pamela S. Hogle
“It’s a video world now,” says CGS senior vice president Doug Stephen. That’s why his “guerrilla-style” learning—easy, inexpensive, mobile-friendly eLearning for seasonal employees—is so appealing.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Watershed Essentials to Launch During DevLearn 2016 by News Editor
Watershed is introducing its new product offerings, ranging from basic to advanced learning analytics as well as enterprise solutions. This includes the launch of Watershed Essentials, which provides out-of-the-box functionality and is designed for L&D practitioners who want to start tracking and exploring learning outside an LMS.
Learning Solutions Magazine: 'Tis the Season: Use “Guerrilla-Style” eLearning to Train Holiday Hires by Pamela S. Hogle
“It’s a video world now,” says CGS senior vice president Doug Stephen. That’s why his “guerrilla-style” learning—easy, inexpensive, mobile-friendly eLearning for seasonal employees—is so appealing.
edX: edX Welcomes Babson College
We are honored to announce that Babson College, a dynamic living and learning laboratory where students, faculty, and staff work together to address the real-world problems of business and society, has joined edX. As the top-ranked college for entrepreneurship education, Babson brings extensive experience in the field of business strategy and entrepreneurial thinking to the edX global community of more than 9 million learners. Babson... Read More about edX Welcomes Babson College The post edX Welcomes Babson College appeared first on edX Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Are Your Employees Really Learning? by Erika Trautman
US companies invest a significant amount of money, time, and resources into training their employees. At the same time, disengaged employees cost US businesses up to $550 billion annually in lost productivity. A new approach to learning could address this, yet many companies are still using stale materials. Here are some thoughts on giving those materials a much- needed update.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Koantic to Announce New Features at DevLearn 2016 by News Editor
Koantic, the eLearning authoring tool that solves the challenges eLearning content creators face when adding custom videos to their courses, will attend DevLearn to present upcoming updates. Koantic is a new cloud-based eLearning tool for creating interactive eLearning video courses with gamification.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Are Your Employees Really Learning? by Erika Trautman
US companies invest a significant amount of money, time, and resources into training their employees. At the same time, disengaged employees cost US businesses up to $550 billion annually in lost productivity. A new approach to learning could address this, yet many companies are still using stale materials. Here are some thoughts on giving those materials a much- needed update.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Koantic to Announce New Features at DevLearn 2016 by News Editor
Koantic, the eLearning authoring tool that solves the challenges eLearning content creators face when adding custom videos to their courses, will attend DevLearn to present upcoming updates. Koantic is a new cloud-based eLearning tool for creating interactive eLearning video courses with gamification.
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: OLI Community Webinar: November 11, 1:00 PM EST
It has been an eventful year for the Open Learning Initiative, with record enrollments, expanded technical affordances, and extensive course development to create new courses and improve existing materials. Next year is shaping up to be even more exciting. At ……
Coursera: Introducing Subscriptions for Specializations
By Tom Willerer, Chief Product Officer of Coursera At Coursera, we believe education is a lifelong pursuit, and we want to empower you to achieve your goals throughout your life and career. We’re continually working to improve our courses and platform to give you access to relevant content, and to help you learn more efficiently and effectively. Today, we’re excited to announce Specialization subscriptions - a new payment model that allows you to purchase access to all content in a Specialization on a month-by-month or annual basis, so that you’re paying only for the amount of time you need to learn the material and earn your Certificate. You can now subscribe to some Specializations on Coursera for a monthly fee rather than paying up front for an entire course or Specialization, and this payment model will be rolled out to many of our most popular Specializations over the coming months. Subscriptions are typically priced from $39 to $89 per month for access to…