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Learning Solutions Magazine: EMEA Reporter: Liberia—Great Need and Great Difficulty by Nic Laycock
Liberia, a nation ravaged by a 14-year-long series of civil wars, is attempting to bootstrap its university and the infrastructure needed to support education. Read about the challenges, and possible opportunities to help!
Udacity: New Course: Software Development Life Cycles
Software engineering is much more than programming. It encompasses a wide range of systematic tasks from gathering requirements up to testing and shipping the final product. We are very excited to introduce Software Development Life Cycles, a course created in partnership with Georgia Tech as a part of the Online Masters Degree in Computer Science. Taught by Professor Alex Orso, the class covers software phases, requirements engineering and software testing methods. You will go through all the stages of software development as you design and build your own Android app for the final project. You will also learn about: Integrated Development Environments (IDE) Git (and Github!) Unified Modeling Language (UML) Ready to get started? http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Saylor.org: Maximizing your learning through online tools: Strategic Planning
Editor’s note: this guest post is the first in a short series by Ankit Khandelwal, a prolific student of online courses. This article covers ways to use freely available materials to develop confidence and competence in business management skills outside of a traditional degree program. Introduction You may have heard of the term strategic planning ... Read More ...
Learning Solutions Magazine: Business News: Epic US Forms New Learning Technologies Firm: LEO by News Editor
Following the merger of Epic Learning Group and LINE Communications, Learning Technologies Group is proud to introduce LEO, its new learning technologies firm.
: Start August Off with the Moodle MOOT
The first Moodle MOOT (MMVC11) started in 2011. Get your calendars ready for the upcoming MMVC14. The MOOT will take place from August 1-3,... The post Start August Off with the Moodle MOOT appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: Adobe Presenter 10 by Joe Ganci
Adobe Presenter 10 is a video tool that offers many new and improved features, including the ability to publish to HTML5, and to deliver HD quality video to any device. Is it worth licensing? Find out here!
Khan Academy: The British Museum and Khan Academy—a partnership for learning
Post by: Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, KA Deans for Art and History Walking through the British Museum is to walk through the history of the great civilizations of the world. The Rosetta Stone. Aztec mosaic masks. Buddhist manuscripts that had been hidden for years in a cave. Some of the most extraordinary historical objects in the world live there, and we’re so excited today to announce that we’ve partnered with the world’s oldest national public museum. Both institutions, Khan Academy and the British Museum, share a wish to provide access to the world’s treasures to everyone, wherever they live. It’s hard not to be awed by this venerable institution—the breadth of its collection (geographically and chronologically) is virtually unparalleled, and it’s not surprising that it is one of the most visited museums in the world. Khan Academy has created tutorials selected from the museum’s more than 3 million objects that serve to educa…
Coursera: Coursera for Your Career: 4 Courses to Build Computer Science Foundations and Advance Programming Skills
Computer scientists are some of the most in-demand professionals in today’s job market. Hundreds of thousands around the world are pursuing careers in computer science, but the field is constantly changing, where important programming languages today may lose their relevance tomorrow. Teaching computer science, and teaching it well, is a core value at Coursera (especially because our first courses were Machine Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models). Since then, Coursera has worked with professors at the top of their fields to offer learners the chance to acquire knowledge and skills in this fast-moving and diverse career field. Whether you’re looking to write your first line of code, build Android Apps or advance the next breakthrough in robotics, there is a class on Coursera that can help you get there. What’s more, learners enrolling in these courses can pursue a Verified Certificate, validating their achievements on their resume or LinkedIn profile. F…
Udacity: NEW! Earn a Certificate for Intro to Java Programming!
Learn Java from Cay and Sara Today, we are excited to announce that you now have access to coaching support and can earn a certificate for Intro to Java Programming!Java was initially released in 1995 by Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle). It was designed to be platform-independent, with the slogan “write once, run anywhere.” Java is also an object-oriented programming language, meaning you can use code written by others to create your own programs.Intro to Java Programming teaches you everything you need to know to get started as a Java programmer. 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 an oral exam, you’ll also earn a certificate verifying your new programming skills.Java is a great language to learn if you’re looking to become an Android Developer. Upon completing the course, you’ll be pe…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Adobe After Effects: Not as Scary as You Think by Stephen Haskin
The first time they open Adobe After Effects, some people become so frightened that they close it and never come back. If you are one of those people, take heart! Here is a tutorial that will get you started on the road to mastering some of the most powerful video software out there. It can make a huge difference in the quality of video in your eLearning productions!
: Welcome to the iTDi Summer School MOOC in WizIQ
English teachers worldwide: Come on inside. It’s time to fly high with iTDi! Welcome to the Summer School MOOC in WizIQ. 30 Days! 35... The post Welcome to the iTDi Summer School MOOC in WizIQ appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Udemy: How to Optimize Your Website for Udemy Course Sales
You can find success in promoting your Udemy course on your website, but only if it’s done right. In this article, we will walk you through optimizing your website for Udemy course sales. If you do not have a website or if you have a business website that you don’t want to promote your Udemy [...]…
Udacity: New Statistics Courses: Understand & Make Predictions Using Data
Quick, how long is your daily commute to work? (or to school, coffee shop, or favorite breakfast hangout)? If you came up with an answer, then you already are a statistician! If you came up with an answer like “It usually takes me 30 minutes,” then you are already using the subject of our new course, Descriptive Statistics, to describe and summarize data. If you came up with an answer like “It usually takes me 30 minutes, give or take about 5 minutes,” you are already constructing confidence intervals, a topic covered in our second new course, Inferential Statistics! Why should you learn statistics? Statistics is formalized intuition. Most people already use it on a daily basis (most people...that sounds like a statistics word, right?). In these two introductory courses, you will learn the difference between probability and statistics, and see how statistics is pervasive in our personal and professional life. Even…
: What can we learn from Nelson Mandela to make a difference?
We teach language to help people communicate. Why do people want to communicate? To express the human story through myth, inspiration and powerful... The post What can we learn from Nelson Mandela to make a difference? appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
: What can Teachers learn from Nelson Mandela to make a difference?
We teach language to help people communicate. Why do people want to communicate? To express the human story through myth, inspiration and powerful... The post What can Teachers learn from Nelson Mandela to make a difference? appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Udemy: 20 Tips for Promoting your Course on YouTube
Promoting your Udemy course on YouTube and you don’t know where to start? Well in this article, I will share 20 tips for optimizing your marketing efforts on YouTube: 1. Upload your podcasts onto YouTube to expand your reach. 2. Engage with the YouTube community. You can do this by leaving comments to popular videos that are related to your course. [...]…
Udemy: How to Leverage LinkedIn for Online Course Conversions
If you’ve read our Quick Wins article, then you know how effective a 7-day email campaign can be in converting your subscribers into your Udemy courses. Perhaps you’ve already run a successful Quick Win email, YouTube, or Facebook campaign and you’re looking for another approach. Or perhaps, you don’t have an email list or YouTube [...]…
Udemy: Closed Captions Added to Udemy Courses
There are now 50 Udemy courses that include closed captions. Udemy is always seeking ways to make course content accessible and valuable to students with varying learning styles, and closed captioning is part of the ongoing effort to improve the learning experience for our students. Closed captions will be added to another 20 courses in [...]…
Iversity: Interaction between Professors and Students in MOOCs
by Sagar Aryal Learning online has always been the best part of my studies. Whenever I try to learn new things, the first source I look into is internet sites with some popular university notes and blogs. As per my view, learning online from these sources may help broaden the topic of interest, whereas in […] The post Interaction between Professors and Students in MOOCs appeared first on iversity Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Brain Science: Writing So the Brain Understands by Art Kohn
Much of what we communicate in eLearning and other kinds of teaching relies on the written word. Many instructional designers worry that learners may be poor readers and so try to “write down to their level.” Is this the right approach? Is reading ability even a problem? Or is the problem our approach to writing? Here are some guidelines that may surprise you.