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Iversity: How Online Learning Can Positively Impact the Earth
by Michelle Smith Michelle Smith is a freelance writer who enjoys writing about a variety of topics ranging from marketing to productivity. Michelle encourages your feedback via email. There are countless benefits to participating in online education. It’s convenient as courses can typically be taken at any time, from anywhere. It’s often cheaper than taking […] The post How Online Learning Can Positively Impact the Earth appeared first on iversity Blog.
Udacity: Best of Developing Scalable Apps
Successful developers think big from the start. Is your app safe from its own popularity?In Developing Scalable Apps, by Google, learn to build scalable apps, and to harness the power of Google App Engine to manage your app infrastructure. Sample the course by checking out highlights in this Best of Developing Scalable Apps playlist. Ready to get started? Start your free trial today, and we’ll see you in class! http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Udacity: Best of UX Design for Mobile Developers
5-star apps are the product of both great development AND user centered design. In UX Design for Mobile Developers, by Google, you’ll learn to leverage key design techniques to take your mobile app to the next level by creating a great user experience. For a sample of what you’ll learn in the course, check out our Best of UXD playlist. Ready to dive in and start designing your own 5-star app? Start your free trial today. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Coursera: Grow Your Small Business: Christina's Coursera Story
An entrepreneur is an accountant, a marketer, an HR scout, an operations expert, a skillful manager, a finance whiz, and so much more, all at the same time. Entrepreneurship requires a variety of aptitudes and abilities, and cultivating each individual skill, often a process of a trial-and-error, is difficult. When Christina Bernstein, a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, founded BB Medical Surgical Supplies, she was able to bypass some of the hurdles many of her peers face by taking a course on Coursera. An engineer by trade, Christina received her B.S. from Oregon State University and worked on data communications at IBM. After receiving her Masters degree in Medical Devices and Diagnostic Engineering from the University of Southern California, she explored her growing interest in biomedical engineering by working at a major medical device corporation. But in 2007, Christina was ready for a change. She had struggled with the pricing schemes and corporate nature of the medical…
Khan Academy: Meet the MCAT competition winners
Post from Rishi Desai, MD, MPH, Khan Academy Medical Partnerships Lead About two months ago we launched two competitions to find talented individuals that could help us by making videos, creating questions, or writing articles for the 2015 Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). The 2015 MCAT is different from the previous MCAT exam because it will include new content in areas like psychology and sociology. To help students get ready for this new exam, Khan Academy has partnered up with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Association of American Medical Colleges, and so far we have put together a collection of 500 videos and 600 practice MCAT questions. The competitions were a tremendous success and we found 12 video competition winners and 20 question and article writing competition winners. We asked all of them why they decided to participate in the competition. Meet our winners and see what they had to say: MCAT Video competition winners: Efrat Bruck Columbia University M…
: The Power Of Group Dynamics Online
This article celebrates the power of professional learning communities and looks at how relationships are built from the inside out. We’ll see how it... The post The Power Of Group Dynamics Online appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: edTotal Learning Record Store Untethers Learning Content from LMS Jail by News Editor
The edTotal Learning Record Store (LRS) enables organizations to post courses, videos, and any training content anywhere on the web from any mobile device and to securely track and store learner activity. With the edTotal LRS, content is untethered, housed anywhere outside the LRS or LMS, and tracked in the edTotal LRS.
Coursera: Coursera Cup Week 3: Leaderboard Update
Imagine: if everyone that watched the World Cup took a course on Coursera…. While athletes and fans enthusiastically represent their countries in the World Cup, the Coursera Cup encourages our global community to represent their country or region via their power of learning. To influence your country/region Coursera Cup ranking, invite friends from your country and watch lecture videos during the 2014 World Cup. Week 2 Leaderboard Standings COURSERA CUP LEADERBOARD STANDINGS The Coursera Cup Leaderboard is a measurement of the most active Courserians per capita per country/region with over 10k learners. We are measuring “Activity” by video lectures watched and number of learners per capita: Top 30 Countries/Regions Singapore Ireland (+2) Australia United States (+1) Taiwan (-3) Hong Kong Canada Israel New Zealand Spain (+4) Greece (-1) United Kingdom Netherlands (+3) Switzerland (-3) Lithuania (-2) Denmark (-2) Portugal…
Udacity: Tips for Lifelong Learning
Hi, I'm Jarrod! Hi! I’m Jarrod, and I’m a Udacity Course Developer working on courses for the Georgia Tech Online Masters in Computer Science. I’m also a lifelong learner, and I’ve picked up some best practices as I’ve learned using online resources over the years. Here’s a repost from my blog on why and how to be a lifelong learner: In today’s fast-paced industry, learning will most likely involve seeking new skills in ways that challenge the norm. But thankfully, there is promise for such lifelong learning online–a promise that will save you time and money while helping you earn more of both. Provided you have access to a decent computer and the Internet, the barrier to getting started is probably lower than it ever has been. And with those things in place, it is a matter of finding the content you wish to learn. So, to help others who may be looking to maximize their own learning efforts, I have listed some quick tips: S…
: Fly high with iTDI: Summer School MOOC for English Teachers
Becoming Better Teachers with iTDi and WizIQ Founded and run by a team of dedicated teachers, the International Teacher Development Institute (iTDi) is a... The post Fly high with iTDI: Summer School MOOC for English Teachers appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Marc My Words: Selling Performance Support by Marc Rosenberg
Selling performance support comes with unique challenges. Whether you are just getting started or have some performance-support experience under your belt, here are ten approaches to employ when planning to sell a performance-support project.
Coursera: First Million Russian Words of Course Content Translated!
Thanks to almost 5,000 volunteer learners worldwide, and our partnership with ABBYY Language Services, Coursera’s Global Translator Community has translated over one million words of course content into Russian. In less than two months, we’ve hit a symbolic milestone in our mission to provide education to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Russian subtitles are now available for Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence (Case Western Reserve University). Another four courses added recently – including Bioinformatics Algorithms (University of California, San Diego), Introduction to Public Speaking (University of Washington), and others – are in the approval process. The list of courses in English available for Russian translation includes recent additions are such as Model Thinking (University of Michigan) and Functional Programming Principles in Scala (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). We are actively growing our global trans…
Saylor.org: We have a new address!
You may have heard rumblings of this here and there. You may have seen some of the pictures. We have indeed moved across the Potomac from Washington, DC to Arlington, VA (we can just see the Capitol dome in the distance…from one window…at a rather oblique angle). More specifically, we have moved from the Georgetown ... Read More ...
Udacity: What's the Difference Between UI and UX?
UI and UX are misunderstood acronyms. They have completely different meanings but are often used interchangeably by well-meaning people who just don’t know the difference. But the difference is not just significant. It’s eye-opening when you know it.UI is short for “User Interface.” In the software world, this means everything that shows up on the screen: the images, text, diagrams, and widgets as well as their color, size, and positioning. UX stands for “User Experience.” It’s much more comprehensive than UI. It’s the entire experience a user has when they use your product! When you order something from Amazon and it comes a day early, that’s good UX. When your phone doesn’t wake you up with notifications, that’s good UX too. In UX Design for Mobile Developers the instructors leave the software world for a more... visceral... understanding of the distinction between UI and UX. Check it out! For more UX Desi…
: WizIQ Virtual Classroom plugin for Joomla!: More Interaction, More Learning
In order to effectively teach online, there are two components that all online teachers must possess. These are: 1. A comprehensive teaching platform or website that... The post WizIQ Virtual Classroom plugin for Joomla!: More Interaction, More Learning appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Iversity: Great Scholartrips in History: Marco Polo (II)
When I was a child, there was a game I always played with my friends in the swimming pool. The object of the game was to find and tag your friends with your eyes closed. There is only one thing to help you out: you yell, “Marco!” and the others call back, “Polo!”. If you […] The post Great Scholartrips in History: Marco Polo (II) appeared first on iversity Blog.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Challenging the Infinite Monkey Theorem: Mobile Performance Support by Steven Loomis
We’ve been facing a problem with mobile. We’ve been concentrating on delivery of training rather than support of performance. Here’s a suggestion to stop this cycle by introducing strategies that focus on using performance tools with mobile devices rather than delivering training through mobile devices.
: How to address gender differences in the online classroom? Ideas for Teachers
Gender differences are ubiquitous From pre-school to grad school, there are always a few boys who are so eager to be heard that they... The post How to address gender differences in the online classroom? Ideas for Teachers appeared first on Official WizIQ Teach Blog.
Udacity: I’m Taking a Stance Against “The Pursuit of Lifelong Learning”
Let me explain.First, I want to distinguish between “lifelong learning” and lifelong learning. The first is a phrase, the second a behavior. The behavior I have no problem with. It’s a prerequisite for staying relevant in a rapidly changing world. But I’m taking a stance against the phrase. To tell me I should “pursue lifelong learning” is a fact. It’s obvious and offers me no insight. Of course I should pursue lifelong learning. I should also eat right and exercise. But how?!I really struggled with this question in my first year of college. At that time I was not a pursuer of lifelong learning. Don’t get me wrong: I still learned. But I did it reluctantly. I learned in 12-hour sessions which ended 20 minutes before the start of an exam.But not everyone was like me. I remember watching with envy as some of my impossibly-enlightened friends spent the night after (yes, after) the exam trying to figure out how to solve that one exam que…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Xyleme Hosts Webinar: Scalable Learning Content Delivery by News Editor
In a webinar co-hosted by Xyleme, The Princeton Review will demonstrate the key role of a Learning Content Management System in learning strategy.