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Coursera: The First Online Portuguese Courses Launch on Coursera
The first Portuguese courses from Brazil’s top educational institutions launch today on Coursera. Our Portuguese-speaking learners now have access to free, career-relevant courses from USP, UNICAMP, and the Lemann Foundation. Five courses taught natively in Portuguese focus on subject areas like engineering, accounting, and teaching. “Portuguese-language content will address the needs of those with limited access to high quality education and offer anyone with an internet connection the opportunity to acquire the skills needed to advance their careers,” said Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera. Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough SubjectsUCSD: Techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. Learn about the how the brain absorbs information to improve your own learning habits. On-Demand, Learn Now >>…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Trivantis and eLearning Brothers Team Up to Rock the eLearning Industry by News Editor
eLearning Brothers and Trivantis, the maker of Lectora, announced on April 22, 2015 that for the first time in eLearning history, an eLearning template provider and an authoring tool have combined forces to create an unprecedented eLearning solution.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Nuts and Bolts: Causing Serendipity by Jane Bozarth
The story of the three princes of Serendip is more than an entertaining fable. It illustrates the limits of formal training, and the value of being able to learn something valuable from information that just came your way. You may not be looking for a lame, one-eyed camel that is missing a tooth and carrying an unusual cargo, but you might also learn something valuable from this column.
Coursera: Daphne Koller: Announcing the first MBA on Coursera from the University of Illinois
Today, we are proud to announce an entirely new way to earn a graduate degree in business. The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign College of Business is developing the first open online MBA offered in part through Coursera. This “iMBA” program opens a number of pathways towards gaining a high quality education from a top business school. Launching for admissions later this year, the iMBA consists of a set of Specializations (series of courses) in different areas of business expertise. Learners can take one course, one Specialization, or go on to take a set of Specializations in order to earn an MBA degree from the University of Illinois. This new model for a graduate degree is extraordinary for the following reasons: • The iMBA curriculum will be freely available for everyone. In support of Illinois and Coursera’s common mission to provide universal access to the world’s best education, access to all of the courses will be available on Course…
Iversity: Join the Flash Referral Challenge: 4 May – 11 May
We wanted to make sure that you know that the Flash Referral Challenge started today. You have 1 week to refer at least 3 friends and if they enrol in a course, you’ll get a 10€ iversity voucher. You can use this voucher towards any Certificate Track in any course! Remember that this is a Flash Challenge: You […] The post Join the Flash Referral Challenge: 4 May – 11 May appeared first on iversity Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Performance Support and Our New Content Habits by Ian Huckabee
Performance support clearly benefits from technological change. Our new mobility creates demand for shorter content and personalized learning experiences and for support to fill gaps in that content. Can learning departments keep performance support integrated with training initiatives and support the huge range of learners’ devices? Here are some thoughts on meeting this challenge.
Learning Solutions Magazine: EMEA Reporter: eSafety, a Responsibility for the eLearning Community by Nic Laycock
Although IT departments have for years served as watchdogs over organizational cybersecurity, eLearning has often been relatively unconcerned with online safety and security, apart from passwords. However, in Europe this is changing, and it is also time for the rest of the world to take action. Here are some thoughts on this important area.
Coursera: Aous “Alex” Abdo: New Career as a Lead Data Scientist
With a PhD in physics, Aous “Alex” Abdo was actively looking to strengthen his analytical skills in data science. For the past 12 years, he was working as a scientist and researcher for various stressful roles in the Department of Energy, NASA, Department of Defense and several universities across the US. He was searching for a solution online and came across a tweet from Coursera for the Data Science Specialization. He immediately enrolled. Throughout the courses, he was able to sharpen knowledge he previously had but also got exposed to a variety of new techniques and skills such as: best practices of obtaining and cleaning data in preparation for exploratory data analysis, understanding trends in the data through statistical inferences, and other tricks to better utilize the open source statistical language R. After completing the Specialization, he listed his credentials on his online profiles and was contacted by a number of recruiters for interviews in data scienc…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Brain Science: Testing, Testing... The Whys and Whens of Assessment by Art Kohn
Is it possible that your training is having no effect on learners, or worse, that it is actually detrimental to the good of the company? The answer is, “Yes, it is possible,” and until you conduct systematic assessment you will have no idea whether you are really helping your organization reach its goals. Here is some help from research.
Coursera: Build Knowledge and Situational Awareness on Global Health
This guest post is written by Dr. Jay Lemery, M.D., professor of University of Colorado and Cathy Beuten, introducing the new course “Foundations for Global Health Responders starting May 4th. In 2010, a devastating earthquake hit the Haitian capital of Port au Prince—one of the most vulnerable cities on Earth. More than 200,000 Haitians were killed and many more severely injured and left homeless. Thousands of well-meaning humanitarian responders flooded the country trying to pitch in, yet many of them were unprepared and were more of a hindrance than a help. Haiti’s proximity to the North American mainland made it easy for samaritans to arrive quickly and in large numbers. Unfortunately, these good intentions often impeded relief efforts. For example a valuable US helicopter spent 18 percent of its flight operations searching for lost humanitarian responders who were ill-prepared to take care of themselves rather than medavac’ing earthquake victims or…
Learning Solutions Magazine: cmi5 Specification Working Group Plans May 2015 Initial Draft Release by Art Werkenthin
The cmi5 specification working group met April 15 & 16 to finalize a draft release of the cmi5 specification (an xAPI protocol providing the “use case” for xAPI in learning management systems) and set target dates for initial release. This news item summarizes the meeting and includes a link to the minutes of the meeting.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: BranchTrack—Simple and Very Effective by Joe Ganci
Scenario-based learning allows learners to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, keeping learning from being linear, passive, and boring. But building it can be complicated. BranchTrack, a cloud-based tool, makes not just the flowcharting part easy but actually outputs a full-fledged simulation for you. Read all about it here!
Coursera: Coursera's Campus Ambassadors Spread Knowledge
Just over a year ago, Coursera teamed up with Guokr.com—China’s top community of online learners—to launch the MOOC Ambassador program. The program brings together some of China’s most committed learners, who work to spread knowledge about online learning through college campus events, meet-ups, online forums, and other channels. Here are a few stories from our incredible ambassadors: Sunny Fung, Fudan University As a high school student, Sunny Fung spent more time reading about history and sociology than studying for China’s notoriously consuming college entrance exam, the gaokao. Despite his contrarian stance—and a low gaokao score—Sunny nabbed a slot in one of China’s top schools, Fudan University, which offered him special admission. But even in college, Sunny found that his intellectual interests shifting outside the boundaries of his formal course of study. Hungry for more, Sunny scoured the web and found Coursera. Inspired by w…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Using Gamification to Teach Complex Topics by Nicholas Bird and Jay Davenport
How would you make learning about property sales and loan securitization interesting and enjoyable? At Wyndham Vacation Ownership, the answer was to build a game. Because business development and financial skills are critical to the company, the game is an important part of the leadership development program, available to all associates. Here’s what a team at Wyndham built.
Learning Solutions Magazine: User Review: Raptivity Linker—Now Create Powerful Experiences by Linking Interactivities! by Todd Kasenberg
Raptivity Linker, software that enables stitching together multiple Raptivity interactivities and parts, was recently released from beta. Here is a user review that identifies the functionality and ease of use of this new tool, and also lays out some areas where it could use some further development.
Coursera: Course Spotlight: Programming for Everybody (Python)
Course Spotlight Series: Programming for Everybody (Python) starts on June 1, led by Professor Charles Severance (“Dr. Chuck”) of the University of Michigan. This article, based on an interview with the instructor, was written by Charlie Chung of Class Central. Dr. Chuck is a big advocate for digital literacy and thinks everyone should learn basic programming and understand the history of the internet. This will give people to have the tools to understand a wide range of technologies and value our digital freedoms. And, more concretely, being technologically literate is important for jobs: “I believe that the number of middle class jobs that don’t have any aspect of technology is going to go to zero.” So it is Dr. Chuck’s mission to do his part to help teach as many people as possible (ideally everybody) about programming. “We are reaching people who have always felt that they are shut out of the technology economy,” he says. Aft…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Performance Support Improves Business Outcomes by Dr. Conrad Gottfredson
In enterprises that are implementing talent management and talent development strategies, especially talent marketplace strategies, performance support offers several key advantages. Learn about them, and your vital interest in the benefits, here.
Coursera: Starting in April: Health and Medicine Courses
Psychological First Aid Global Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Ethical and Social Challenges of Genomic and Precision Medicine 食品安全與毒理 (Food Safety & Toxicology) Foundations for Global Health Responders Myths and Realities of Personalised Medicine: The Genetic Revolution Collaboration and Communication in Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice Disaster Preparedness for the Health Care Professional Bacteria and Chronic Infections The Clinical Psychology of Children and Young People…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Book Review: Ten Strategies for Building Community with Technology by Bill Brandon
Times change, and instructional methods change with them. One concept that instructional designers should become familiar with is that of the role of community in learning, and the necessity of learners feeling themselves involved in a community. A new book takes a strategic look at this approach and provides the necessary background you need to get started.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Streamline Real-time Knowledge, Learning, and Innovation with Cisco Collaborative Knowledge by News Editor
Cisco Collaborative Knowledge improves employee engagement and workforce productivity by building smarter, more agile workforces.