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ALISON: ALISON CEO to Address Australian Education Forum
ALISON CEO Mike Feerick joins eminent gathering at Australian education forum.
ALISON: ALISON - Middle East and North Africa
ALISON - Middle East and North Africa…
Udacity: 8 Skills You Need to Be a Data Scientist
Demystifying Data Science: 4 Kinds of Data Science Jobs and 8 Skills that Will Get You Hired Interested in landing a job as a data scientist? You’re in good company - a recent article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. Patil in the Harvard Business Review calls ‘data scientist’ the sexiest job of the 21st century. But how can you get your foot in the door? Many resources out there may lead you…
Udacity: One Simple Way to Prepare for a Career Change
Image via Shutterstock So you've decided to make a career change, and web development is calling your name. You know some of the basics—some HTML, maybe even a little CSS—but where do you go from there? What should you learn? What skills are in demand? When it comes to a career in web development, there's so much variety, so much to know. But don't worry: there's an easy way to figure out…
: WizIQ Introduces Co-instructor Feature for Online Courses
In its continued efforts to enhance your online teaching experience, WizIQ now offers you an “extra pair of hands” to assist with your online courses. Get ready to enjoy the benefits of having a co-instructor (or co-instructors)... The post WizIQ Introduces Co-instructor Feature for Online Courses appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Brain Science: Pre-training Is Essential to a Complete Training Package by Art Kohn
When the long-term training goal is retention and transfer of skills and knowledge, effective instructional design recognizes that certain key activities before and after a learning event (including eLearning and mLearning as well as instructor-led learning) are more important to success than what happens during the learning event. This article explains what pre-training is and its benefits.
Coursera: What do people and organizations really do?
This guest post is written by Wil van der Aalst, professor of Eindhoven University of Technology, one of the most cited computer scientists in the world, introducing the new course “Process Mining: Data science in Action” starting today, November 12th. Professor Wil van der Aalst Many of our daily events are being recorded—ordering a book, making a phone call or even taking a medical test. This provides an amazing source of information that can be turned into valuable insights using a method called process mining which can be used to automatically learn behavioral models which show what people and organizations really do. The hype today around Big Data is too focused on the “data” (storage and processing) and not on the “processes” that we would like to learn and improve. The course “Process Mining: Data science in Action” offers a novel perspective on data (Big or Small) and provides the tools necessary to start analyzin…
Udacity: Front-End Web Developers: What You'll Make and Where You'll Make It
Photo by Flickr user 401(K) 2012 You're tech savvy. You know some basic HTML. Maybe you've even dabbled with JavaScript once or twice. You love working on challenging, creative projects—and you're ready for a serious career change. If this sounds familiar, front-end web development might just be the career you've been looking for. Great salaries, high demand, airtight job security, and…
Udemy: After Veterans Day, Need Ongoing Support for Veteran Career Development
On November 11th we celebrated the 21.8 million veterans living in the United States with department store sales, free coffees, parades and moments of silence. But it’s important that we ask ourselves, how are we supporting and celebrating veterans the other 364 days a year? With a US Veteran unemployment rate higher than the national [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Hatsize Launches Turnkey Citrix Labs by News Editor
Turnkey Citrix Labs enable training organizations to offer virtual, hands-on XenDesktop training to students worldwide.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Learning When You Need It by Peter de Jager
Training and education (including eLearning) don’t really accomplish what we’d like them to accomplish. What we want is for someone to perform a task on their own, some time after they were taught how to do it. Performance support is the way to make this happen.
Udemy: The Next Wave of the Sharing Economy
Say goodbye to your grandmother’s sharing economy: there’s a new kid on the block, and he’s got brains. In the first wave of the sharing economy, we relied on a network to share goods and to perform historically lower-wage jobs: driving, delivery, cleaning, and furniture assembly. Individuals also looked to capitalize on existing assets—a home [...]…
ALISON: ALISON CEO Joins Global Leaders in Forum on Education in India
ALISON CEO Mike Feerick will join global leaders in a major forum on the future of education and training in India. …
ALISON: ALISON CEO to Address Australian Education Forum
ALISON CEO Mike Feerick to address a major Australian education summit.
Saylor.org: Journal article on OER and college credit co-authored by Saylor Academy staff
With lead author John Hilton III of Brigham Young University, our staff members Lindsay Murphy and Devon Ritter have written and had published the article “From Open Educational Resources to College Credit: The Approaches of Saylor Academy” in open-access journal Open Praxis [Vol 6, No 4 (2014)]. The article considers the Saylor Academy’s history, philosophy, ... Read More ...
Udacity: Top 5 Data Science Career Questions Answered
You’ve heard the terms “data scientist”, “data wrangler”, “data analyst” and “data engineer”. You’ve heard that a data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. But what exactly do all these terms mean? And what does it mean for you? We sat down with our Udacity CEO, Sebastian Thrun, and VP of Engineering, Nitin Sharma, to discuss the ins and outs of data science, and how you can…
Coursera: Learner Story: Jim Whitman, retired Navy & Air Force Veteran, and University Professor
“The dog gets mad when I sit there for hours watching Coursera lectures,” says retired Navy and Air Force Veteran, Jim Whitman. Whitman’s discipline started early with joining the Navy at a young age. Four initial years of service gave Jim the opportunity to go to UMass where he fell in love with learning. Prompted with a hunger for knowledge, he joined the Air Force and found his way back through an MBA. Now, retired but still teaching as a professor and President of Broward College in Guayaquil Ecuador, Jim credits his military experience in giving him drive and a goal oriented personality to keep acquiring new skills. This is how he came across Coursera. “Coursera is heaven for an old man,” says Jim. “I’m addicted to curiosity”. Instead of watching TV, he now spends his free time taking courses on the french revolution or the paradoxes of war. And as a professor at Broward College in Ecuador, he uses Coursera to empower his students…
Coursera: Jim Whitman: retired Navy & Air Force Veteran, and University Professor
“The dog gets mad when I sit there for hours watching Coursera lectures,” says retired Navy and Air Force Veteran, Jim Whitman. Whitman’s discipline started early with joining the Navy at a young age. Four initial years of service gave Jim the opportunity to go to UMass where he fell in love with learning. Prompted with a hunger for knowledge, he joined the Air Force and found his way back through an MBA. Now, retired but still teaching as a professor and President of Broward College in Guayaquil Ecuador, Jim credits his military experience in giving him drive and a goal oriented personality to keep acquiring new skills. This is how he came across Coursera. “Coursera is heaven for an old man,” says Jim. “I’m addicted to curiosity”. Instead of watching TV, he now spends his free time taking courses on the french revolution or the paradoxes of war. And as a professor at Broward College in Ecuador, he uses Coursera to empower his students…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Marc My Words: In Learning and Performance Ecosystems… Part 2 by Marc Rosenberg
You will be hearing a lot from The eLearning Guild and in Learning Solutions Magazine over the coming months about learning and performance ecosystems. This column expands on Marc’s introduction of the concept last month. Between these two columns and the white paper linked at the end of this one, you will gain a more complete understanding of this vital and emerging concept.
Udacity: Announcing the Platypus... Data Analyst Nanodegree
-courtesy of Data Science London I think platypuses are awesome. They look like a bizarre crossover of ducks, beavers, and otters. Highly venomous, they can kill a small animal or incapacitate a grown human with their poison. To add to its distinction, they don’t use sight or smell to hunt like most animals. They’re too hip for that. Instead they radiate electric fields generated through…