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Coursera: Add Your Achievements to Your LinkedIn Profile From Your Course Records Page
Hi Courserians, last month, we announced our partnership with LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network. Over the past month, our engineers have been working to improve the LinkedIn sharing experience on Coursera! We are happy to let you know that now you can easily add any course you’ve completed to your LinkedIn profile directly from your Course Records page! Look for the button, click and voila, you’ve improved your Linkedin Profile! Here’s where to find the 1-click button on your course records page: Add Coursera Courses to LinkedIn! Don’t have any courses to add? Take some and advance your career with Coursera. Check out the great options for Verified Certificates!
Coursera: Now Explore Coursera courses on Discovery Communications’ Curiosity.com!
Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’re working with Discovery Communications — whom you might recognize as the parent company of The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet — to offer our courses on their brand new destination for online learning — Curiosity.com. A major goal at Coursera is to boost educational access to learners everywhere, whether they’re seeking learning for its own sake or pursuing a more formal credential to broaden employment and career opportunities. Accomplishing this goal means building up our catalog of university partners and diverse courses, while also pursuing partnerships that bring our content to new and broader audiences. We’re excited at the potential of Curiosity.com to expand our reach and give students an additional channel for exploring their professional and personal interests among Coursera’s offerings, as well as among those of other available educational resources. Keep an eye out as we…
Coursera: Welcome Fudan University (复旦大学) to Coursera!
Please join us in welcoming Fudan University as Coursera’s 108th partner! A highly competitive institution located in Shanghai, Fudan is one of China’s leading research universities with more than 2,678 full-time professors and researchers and attracting 35,000 on-campus students. Fudan University is excited to open its doors to Chinese-speaking students in its home country and around the world who can benefit from access to their world class education. Tapping into its prestigious faculty, Fudan will offer a range of courses beginning with “Big Data and Information Dissemination” taught by Professor Cheng Shian in Fudan’s School of Journalism. This course will explore the science of communication using data analytics to study the dynamics of online communities. Fudan, in joining three other university partners offering courses in Chinese on Coursera, will have a great impact on our continuing efforts to expand accessibility in China. In addition to…
Coursera: Introducing the 2014 Rotation of Coursera's University Advisory Board
With the start of the New Year, we are pleased to welcome the latest rotation of leaders to Coursera’s University Advisory Board (UAB): David Lee, Provost of Princeton University; Sir Tim O’Shea, Principal of the The University of Edinburgh; Ben Polak, Provost of Yale University; and Wei Shyy, Provost of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. We are indebted to our outgoing UAB members Chris Eisgruber, formerly Provost and now President of Princeton University, who is replaced by his successor, David Lee; John Etchemendy, Provost of Stanford University; Peter Lange, Provost of Duke University; and Phyllis Wise, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These individuals, and the universities that they represent, have had a major impact on Coursera’s growth, and we are grateful for their thoughtful guidance and service to the cause of advancing global education. “I wish to extend my deep personal thanks and express our collec…
Udacity: Coffee Break EP36 [VIDEO]: Mobile Web Dev
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Udacity, along with the Google Chrome Developer Relations team, has launched our new Mobile Web Dev course! Below, course instructor Chris Wilson speaks about mobile first design in a Google Developers Live course launch interview. Here’s the full interview with Sebastian Thrun, Peter Lubbers, Chris Wilson, Colt McAnlis and Sean Bennett. Start learning today, and create a first-class mobile experience for your web apps. See you in class! http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Saylor.org: Virtual labs, maker spaces, and hands-on science
A few days ago, I read a piece on promising new developments in virtual labs (“Massive, open, online…lab experiments?” | The Boston Globe). The proposed “iLabs” join many other good, free, online virtual labs and simulations — the Indian government’s Virtual Labs and University of Colorado’s PhET simulations among them. Add to these the “citizen science” ... Read More ...
Udacity: Mobile Web Dev Team Interviews
Udacity and the Google Chrome Developer Relations team have teamed up to create Mobile Web Development, a project-based course that includes all of the best mobile web development practices in one place. Watch our all-star team answer your questions on why learning to develop for the mobile web is so important, the making of the course, and more! Below, Google Chrome developers Chris Wilson and Peter Lubbers share what to expect in Mobile Web Dev. See you in class!Udacity Mobile Web Development Course Now Live Monday, January 06, 2014 As a web developer, you know that your users are moving to mobile platforms in droves. Beginning today, you can learn how to apply your web development skills to build great mobile web apps withMobile Web Development (CS256)—a new Udacity MOOC training course. In each of the course’s 12 lessons, you can watch short videos teaching you the latest mobile web development techniques, and follow a series of quizzes an…
Coursera: An Experimental “Meta-MOOC” Shaping the Future of Higher Education
This post was written by Hilary Culbertson, Program Director of HASTAC, the innovative virtual learning network cofounded by Cathy Davidson and headquartered at Duke University. When Professor Cathy Davidson of Duke University agreed to teach a Coursera course on the “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,” which will launch on January 27, 2014, she was determined to see how the course itself could help others to think about the many forms and functions of higher education in the 21st century. Co-founder of the 12,000+ member network HASTAC (hastac.org), an open community dedicated to innovations in learning, Professor Davidson sent a notice around to other network members to see if others might be interested in exploring the same topic in a variety of ways. More than thirty different universities and institutions in North America and internationally responded, offering courses, webinars, hangouts, and conferences on the topic. Along with the participants in Profe…
Saylor.org: Saylor.org’s President speaking at the TransformingEDU Summit at CES 2014
This Thursday, our own Amanda Antico-Majkowski will be in Las Vegas at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as part of a TransformingEDU Summit panel on the future of education. For the panel on “The Next Edition of Digital Textbooks and Courseware”, moderated by Casey Green of Campus Computing, Amanda will be joined by leaders ... Read More ...
Udacity: Mobile Web Dev Course Launch
Build a web app with a GREAT mobile experience -- we’ve just launched our new Mobile Web Development course, in partnership with the Google Chrome Developer team, to teach you everything you need to get started with mobile web development! Udacity course architect Sean Bennet with Chris Wilson and Peter Lubbers of the Google Chrome Developer Relations team. In Mobile Web Dev you’ll learn best practices for building great mobile web experiences in a self-paced, online class. Over 12 lessons, we’ll teach you important stuff like adaptation to different sized screens on mobile devices, touch interaction, optimizing field input, and using APIs for cool features that require geolocation or the accelerometer. You’ll also learn to investigate performance issues, to understand mobile networking and battery usage patterns, and to create smooth animations. The best part is, by the end of this class, you will have built a web app with an amazing mobile experien…
ALISON: Ireland and Qatar Partner to Change the World
As Irish Prime Minister An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, TD, visits Doha this week, ALISON recognizes the growing relationship between Ireland and the prosperous Gulf State of Qatar…
Udacity: Coffee Break EP35 [VIDEO]: New Year’s Resolutions
What will you learn in 2014? Make a resolution to learn something new with Udacity this year! How will you advance your education and your career this year? Let us know in the comments what you want to learn! Whether your goal is to start programming from scratch or to build on an existing foundation, Udacity’s interactive, project-based and self-paced online courses are a great way to learn. We’re thrilled to launch our full course experience this January, which includes personalized project feedback, guidance from coaches and verified certificates.http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Udacity: Udacity 2013 Yearbook
2013 was a great year with a lot of new milestones. From our college credit pilots, to a full Masters in Computer Science degree, to the launch of our new industry-related tracks, starting with Data Science & Big Data, we’re looking forward to new innovations in 2014. Full course experience Starting in January 2014, we are proud to offer a full course experience to help you succeed! We offer ongoing feedback on your projects, guidance from coaches, and a verified certificate to help you advance your career in tech. New professional tracks, starting with Data Science & Big Data In our Data Science and Big Data track, you’ll learn how to harness the power of big data. Get started today with Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce, and stay tuned for Intro to Data Science, Data Wrangling with MongoDB, and Exploratory Data Analysis in February 2014. Open Education Alliance We’ve partnered with industry employers and educators in the Open…
Saylor.org: Get college credit for less with Intro Statistics at StraighterLine
Yesterday, we mentioned that more credit opportunities would be on the way; here’s a 50% savings opportunity to kick off the new year: Students can now earn (more) inexpensive credit for MA121: Introduction to Statistics. Through our partnership with StraighterLine, we’ve secured a 50% discount off of their MAT202 Statistics course (which utilizes Saylor’s MA121 course content) ... Read More ...
Saylor.org: Happy New Year! Here are our resolutions…
2014 is upon us, and as the tradition goes, we’re thinking up our resolutions. Here’s what we have so far: Lots of tweaks to courses, resources, links…from good to great and from great to greater. More (and more clear) college credit options Badges? More ways for students and friends of the foundation to collaborate with ... Read More ...
Udacity: Coffee Break EP34 [VIDEO]: Career Tips for Online Learners
As we approach the end of the year, we’ve rounded up career tips from industry experts, as well as Udacity students who’ve used our courses to advance their careers in tech. Enjoy! Visit our course catalog to get started learning new skills and building your online portfolio today. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Coursera: How to earn 40 certificates: An interview with China's MOOC Superstar
Interview conducted by and translated from original Chinese by Coursera team member, Eli Bildner. Guokr.com’s “Ten-thousand Youth Conference” bore all the hallmarks of a rock concert: hundreds of effervescent twenty-somethings, a flashy A/V setup, migrating packs of autograph-seekers. But at this gathering, the “rock stars” signing autographs were, in fact, tenured professors from greater China’s top universities, and the animated audience was comprised of MOOC fans from across the country. I met a number of remarkable people during the Guokr conference (as a Coursera translation partner, Guokr has translated an impressive array of courses into Chinese). I met Professor Benson Yeh, of National Taiwan University, whose course on probability featured the first MOOC-based multiplayer gaming platform. I met Zi Lingzi, at 14 years old the youngest member of Guokr’s MOOC Academy. And then there was Wang Zhen. When the emcee called him up to the sta…
Udacity: Don Norman on Creating Online Design Course
Don Norman Design, the discipline, is about the construction of interfaces that match the abilities and needs of people and technology in order to make products and services effective, understandable and pleasurable. Design is also is about innovation, experimentation, about pushing the envelope of what can be done. My book, The Design of Everyday Things, has lived a happy, 25-year life, getting people to look at the world differently, to view the world through the eyes of a designer, to understand why things work and why they don’t. But 25 years is a long time for a book to remain relevant, and although the principles of interaction are unchanged in these 25 years, technology has dramatically changed. Hence, time to update the book, which has been done in the newly revised and expanded edition (published in November 2013). So why not innovate? Allow the world to experience the delights of design? Udacity is a great vehicle, for it too is exploring pushing the bou…
Udacity: Coffee Break EP33 [VIDEO]: Design Thinking with Tim Brown
The Design of Everyday Things online course features many interviews with design industry experts! Here, learn about design thinking in an interview with Don Norman and Tim Brown, the CEO and President of design company IDEO. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Saylor.org: Release: Exams for Six Open Online Courses Recommended for College Credit
Eagle-eyed viewers of our site may already know this, but we recently set loose six new credit-recommended courses after a review by the National College Credit Recommendation Service. Full details are available in the release, which we invite you to share: http://bit.ly/19fwsXj So why does this matter? College affordability is an issue. Big (and even not ... Read More ...