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Udacity: New! Software Debugging Course with Coaching and Certificates
We’ve all been there. We’ve all written code that didn’t work right. And we’ve all spent hours pouring through lines and lines of code to find the error, not entirely sure what we’re looking for. It’s terrible. But Software Debugging can help! In this course, you’ll learn how to use the scientific process in software engineering and how to automate the debugging process. 7 steps of debugging This is an essential skill to keep in your software developer toolbox. Plus, the more efficient you are in debugging, the more you will be able to focus on the fun part of programming - designing and writing something new, rather than spending hours and hours on trying to find that one critical, but evasive, bug. Today we’re happy to announce Verified Certificates and Certified Coaching for Software Debugging. In the full course, you’ll have access to a personal Coach to help you tailor your learning goals and answer any questions that…
Udacity: UX Research: Doing Right By Your User
Designers & developers have the same goal: doing right by the user Designers and developers have a lot in common. They are passionate about the ideas they're bringing to life, they want to do right by the user, and a lot of the decisions that they make are driven by product requirements that are set by their management or client (in the case of freelancers). One of the common themes that they're both driven by is "doing right by the user." How can they actually do this though? Designers need tools to help them support the design decisions that they make, by showing how these decisions benefit the user. Developers need to do the same thing as well, although developers have implementation constraints which can't be changed. UX research is a very powerful tool that both designers and developers can use to figure out what actual users need or want, and what they don't need or want! User research is a great way to collect data from the right pool of users (potenti…
Udemy: Udemy Hosts Course-A-Thon for Association for Talent Development
The Association for Talent Development (ATD) Golden Gate Chapter was at Udemy headquarters yesterday creating a ton of Udemy courses for their chapter members. The ATD is the largest corporate training and skills development organization in the United States. The Golden Gate ATD chapter uses Udemy’s corporate learning platform, Udemy for Organizations, as their portal [...]…
Udacity: New! Earn a Certificate in Interactive 3D Graphics
Learn to create virtual worlds in Interactive 3D Graphics Today we’re excited to announce that Verified Certificates and Certified Coaching is now available for Interactive 3D Graphics! 3D graphics are used in everything from video games to 3D printing. Knowing how to generate 3D graphics opens a world of possibilities in exciting and growing fields. Interactive 3D Graphics will teach you the basics of 3D computer graphics: meshes, transforms, cameras, materials, lighting, and animation. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills to run a web browser with Three.js and WebGL. With the paid course experience, you’ll have access to a personal Coach to help you tailor your learning goals and answer any questions that you might have about the course material. After passing a final assessment by your coach, you’ll also earn a certificate verifying your new 3D graphics skills. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Iversity: 3 Great Online Learning Resources
I often find myself getting lost in a long trail of clicks browsing the internet. What was I searching for again? Why am I reading about Chimpanzee group behaviour? Most of us have a thirst for learning and discovering new things – let’s admit it, even procrastinate – and sometimes we aren’t even sure what […] The post 3 Great Online Learning Resources appeared first on iversity Blog.
Iversity: 3 Great Online Learning Resources
I often find myself getting lost in a long trail of clicks browsing the internet. What was I searching for again? Why am I reading about Chimpanzee group behaviour? Most of us have a thirst for learning and discovering new things – let’s admit it, even procrastinate – and sometimes we aren’t even sure what […] The post 3 Great Online Learning Resources appeared first on iversity Blog.
Coursera: Learning How (Not) To Learn
Join University of California San Diego’s “Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects”, starting August 1st. Over 100,000 learners have already joined Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski new course, “Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects”–which is not surprising, considering we are Courseraians, after all! The aim for the course is to teach people how to learn more effectively, in any type of study or topic. In the course, Professor Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute as well as a Professor at UCSD, provides up-to-the-minute perspectives from neuroscience related to learning. Professor Oakley provides far-reaching and practical insight not only from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, but from decades of practical experience teaching tough university-level courses. She notes that in this course, learners will “peep under the mental hood&r…
Udacity: New: Parallel Programming with Certificates and Coaching
Learn parallel programming with NVIDIA Today we’re happy to offer Verified Certificates and Certified Coaching for Introduction to Parallel Programming! Parallel programming is an especially useful skill for software developers, as it allows you to write programs that run and execute faster. In this class, you'll learn the GPU programming model and architecture, key algorithms and parallel programming patterns, and optimization techniques. In order to solidify your GPU programming skills, throughout the course you’ll build a number of image filters with NVIDIA’s CUDA Toolkit. With the full course, you’ll have access to a personal Coach to help you tailor your learning goals and answer any questions that you might have about the course material. After passing an exam, you’ll also earn a certificate verifying your new parallel programming skills.See you in class! http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Coursera: Coursera for Your Career: Find the Best Course for Your Professional Development and Advancement
“71% of the US labor force is actively seeking or open to new a job. Over 65% of American workers switch jobs every 1-5 years.” - Jobvite Studies show that 71% of the US labor force is actively seeking or open to new a job, over 65% of American workers switch jobs every 1-5 years, and of those that stay, almost all employees want a promotion or raise. Taking a Coursera course is not only a way to learn a new skill; it’s also a great way to show that you’re self-motivated, knowledgeable, and intellectually curious. To properly showcase these characteristics, it’s essential to find exactly the right course to signal your aptitude and abilities to employers–for now and for the future. With more than 700 courses offered across 25+ categories, the options seem endless, and making a choice can be tough. Choosing the right course specifically for professional development can be even more challenging not only because of the sheer number of options, but a…
Udemy: Elliott Masie’s Eight Lessons Learned from Creating a Corporate MOOC
Elliott Masie, head of the New York think tank The MASIE Center, shares his lessons learned from creating a MOOC on the Udemy for Organizations blog. Below is a sneak peak at lessons one and two. Click here for the full blog post. 1. Create content that can be immediately put to use We purposefully [...]…
Udacity: How to Conduct Low Cost User Research
The best way to make an app (or any product) that your users love is by understanding your users, and that means conducting user research. While big companies like Google can afford to conduct sophisticated and expensive user research studies, basic user research can be done very cheaply.Listen to Rich Fulcher, an Android designer and developer, as he first explains some of the ways Google conducts User Research and then discusses some of the low-cost techniques you can use to improve your products immediately. If you want to learn more, check out UX Design for Android Developers. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Udacity: Intro to the Design of Everyday Things, now available with the full Udacity goodness!
Did you know that you’re a designer? It’s true! We all incorporate a little design in our everyday lives, whether it’s crafting an email or rearranging the knick-knacks on our desk. Design happens whenever we change our environment to make things a little bit better. In Into to the Design of Everyday things, you'll learn to appreciate good design in products you use every day. Today, we’re happy to be offering the full goodness of the Udacity experience for Intro to the Design of Everyday Things (including Verified Certificates, extra material, and Coaching). It's available with a 2-week free trial. If you’ve ever been curious about the principles of design, we encourage you to join us in class. You’ll learn about design concepts like affordances and signifiers, learn how to recognize good and bad design in your everyday life and how to talk about design. This course really does offer something for everyone, regardless of whether you hav…
Learning Solutions Magazine: The Knowledge Management Genius of Amazon.com by Marc Rosenberg
How does Amazon.com so effortlessly connect “zillions” of people with “zigabytes” of product information? The answer, in part, is through using advanced knowledge-management (KM) techniques. In the eLearning field, we can learn a lot from how Amazon approaches the relationship between customers and information.
Udacity: Data Visualization Case Study: How Bad Is Your Commute?
Hi, I'm Chris and I teach Data Analysis with R! Data Analysis with R is a mouthful. Whether you know a lot about analyzing data or are looking to share numbers in a presentation, I want to show you how easy it can be to make sense of data and communicate it to an audience. Let’s start with a question.How long does it take you to get to work?My Udacious colleagues travel all across the Bay Area with commutes times as long as 2 hours and as short as 2 minutes. With your commute in mind, can you think about which cities have some of the worst commutes in the world? Go ahead, jot down some cities.IBM conducted a Commuter Pain Survey (2010) and determined which cities had the most commuting woes, such as terrible traffic and crowded busses. Researchers ranked 20 cities on a “pain index” based upon many issues. One way of making sense of this data is by looking at a table like the one below. How does your list of cities compare? City Pain Index Amsterdam 25 Bei…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Reconciling ADDIE and Agile by Megan Torrance
Many instructional designers know and use the linear ADDIE approach to development projects. At the same time, many are also aware of agile methods that offer significant flexibility and facilitate changes. Does a designer have to choose one or the other? Not really—and this article explains why.
: Group Dynamics In the Classroom & Beyond
Our human relationships are as natural and wonderful as the earth, wind and flowers. Image credit: Joe Ormonde Yet, nature is often... The post Group Dynamics In the Classroom & Beyond appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Khan Academy: KA Lite update: Khan Academy reaches beyond the Internet
Our mission at Khan Academy is to enable everyone, everywhere to achieve a world-class education, and the Internet has played a pivotal role in fulfilling that mission. Recognizing that the majority of the world still does not have access to the Internet, we told you back in December of 2012 about the KA Lite project, started by a former KA intern, aiming to make Khan Academy available to communities that don’t have the prerequisite Internet access. At the time KA Lite was launched, 65% of the world did not have Internet access. In the intervening 18 months, Internet penetration has increased a mere few percent, while KA Lite usage around the world has blossomed, supported by the KA Lite team that banded together to form the non-profit organization Learning Equality. KA Lite has now been installed in over 120 countries, in contexts as varied as low-income schools in India, orphanages in Cameroon, prisons across the United States, and First Nations community centers in northern Ca…
Udacity: New: Machine Learning Courses, Upgraded
We are expanding our Machine Learning course offerings, developed in partnership with Georgia Tech, to include projects, coaching support and Verified Certificates!The courses are taught as an engaging dialogue between two eminent Machine Learning professors and friends Professor Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech) and Professor Michael Littman (Brown University). Ever wonder how Facebook knows which friend of yours should be tagged in a picture? Or how Siri understands the questions you ask her? Machine Learning: Supervised Learning addresses these issues and many others (such as how to stop credit card fraud!). In the final project, you take on the roll of a real estate agent in Boston and use Machine Learning to estimate the best selling price of a client's home. Perhaps you're curious about how Spotify suggests songs for you or how Amazon knows exactly what you would like to purchase. Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning explores different machine learnin…
Coursera: Go Forth, Be Awesome: Create Comics and Graphic Art
Comic Con 2014 is this week in San Diego! If you are there basking in the celebrity appearances, or even if you skipped the conference this year, we hope the festivities inspire your own graphic art creativity. Here we list some fantastic courses to bring out the storyteller and artist in all of us: Comic Books and Graphic NovelsUniversity of Colorado BoulderComic books have arrived! The course’s governing question is simple: by what terms can we discuss comic books as literary art? In pursuit of that question it develops a theory of literary reading and time itself. Join Now ►…
Udacity: New Course: Computer Networking
Do you remember how often Twitter crashed in its early days? Or how all productivity in the workplace immediately tanks in the rare occasions that Google Drive is down?Network Engineers manage issues such as those.Today we are introducing Computer Networking, an intermediate course to help you better understand the technologies that power some of our favorite platforms, throughout time. Designed for students with some background in Computer Networking, this course covers Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Data Networking and Content Distribution. You will take a hands-on approach to learn these concepts, using Mininet (a network emulator) to see how a computer network functions and what factors contribute to its efficiency. Ready to learn? http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…