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Udemy: Excel Standard Deviation: Highlighting Excel’s Statistical Prowess
If you are learning to perform statistical calculations and you have yet to understand Excel, you are missing out on a powerful tool. Perfect for taking in a range of inputs and automating calculations on the data, Excel operates as an excellent statistical calculator. And with a user friendly interface, intuitive controls, and lots of […]…
Udemy: 5 Newborn Photography Tips: How to Photograph an Unpredictable Client
Newborns are unpredictable, and photographing a newborn has to be focused around the child’s schedule not yours. Capturing images of these innocent, little angels can often be a challenge because of that. Taking photos while they’re asleep might seem like the easiest option, but just how long can you expect that child to sleep? Here […]…
Iversity: Thank You For The Great Feedback!
“God bless you!” or just a simple “Thanks ;-)”. This is just a taste of the overwhelming reactions that have been pouring in since the launch of our platform on Tuesday 15 October. Almost without exception, they express delight and gratefulness about iversity’s course offerings. We want to say: Thank you for your great support! […] The post Thank You For The Great Feedback! appeared first on iversity Blog.
Udacity: Etsy Engineer on Real World Programming
Fiona Hello! I’m Fiona, and I am a software engineer at Etsy. I love my job as much as I loved being a student, but I’ve been constantly surprised at how different professional software engineering is from academic programming. These are the biggest differences I've experienced: Collaborative Coding Working in an established codebase means you’re not always writing code from scratch like you usually do when you’re learning. I spend a lot of time writing code that extends or interacts with another developer’s code, which means spending a lot of time reading code to build context. I’ve heard it said that a great engineer is the one people go to with their questions, but I don’t think this applies to questions like, “Why on earth did you write this function like this?” I know somebody is probably going to read and change my code down the line, so I budget mental resources for ensuring my code’s readability and relia…
CourseSites: お勧めの白髪染めエフキュア
年齢を重ねると頭髪には白髪が混じってきます。そして徐々にその量は増えていきます。 人により生え方も量も個人差はありますが、やはり白髪は人を悩ませます。 化粧をどれだけ頑張っても頭に白髪があれば老けた印象は変わらないのです ... [Read more...]…
CourseSites: 効力のある白髪染めとして知られるヘアボーテ
塗った感じが明らかに他の物と違っている白髪染めは、使い続けることによってかなりの意味を持ちます。 ヘアボーテなどは名前も知られており、美容室でもその研究成果が確実に生かされている商品です。 これを利用している人がまず知っ ... [Read more...]…
CourseSites: 白髪染めの玉髪でおしゃれになりましょう
年齢が上がってくると気になってくるのが、髪の毛の老化である白髪になります。 そして何とか美しい髪を維持しようと美容室でカラーリングをしたりして、自分の髪に色をつけたりするのもファッションの一つとして年齢に関係なく定着して ... [Read more...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Learning Analytics in Adobe Presenter 9: Tips for Early Intervention by Pooja Jaisingh
A key aspect of the early intervention effort is identifying students at highest risk of dropping out and providing them with timely remedial teaching. For this, we need an early warning system to identify low performers in the class—and provide more focused attention—while still managing a large distributed class. Here’s how to do this using learning analytics in Adobe Presenter 9.
Udemy: Masking in Photoshop: Understanding Layer Masks and Clipping Masks
Masking is one of the most powerful, yet misunderstood features in Photoshop. When used right, masks can be used to create very effective visual effects. From blending images to stylizing texts, there are hundreds of uses of masks in Photoshop. Masking can be difficult to understand for beginners to Photoshop. Courses such as Photoshop 101 will […]…
Udemy: Photography Business Names: How to Choose a Name for Your Photography Business
“What’s in a name?” the Bard asked. “Everything”, we say. Photography is a very competitive business. While your best pal – the DSLR camera – may have helped revolutionize photography, it has also flooded the market with an awful lot of amateurs armed with nothing but an entry-level camera and a handful of Photoshop lessons. […]…
Coursera: Epicdemics Course Kicks off with Online Multiplayer Game "MOOCDemic"
Today, Prof. Marcel Salathé and 7 other Penn State faculty members will launch Epidemics - the dynamics of infectious diseases. As flu season is getting off the ground, this course is a timely learning experience about how epidemics unfold, and what we can do to get them under control. Along the way, students will learn a whole lot about biology, medicine, public health, ecology & evolution, social science, and other topics relevant for infectious disease dynamics. On the same day, the course will break new ground in the MOOC world by launching www.moocdemic.com, a massive open online multiplayer game that simulates an unfolding, virtual epidemic with the help of participant’s mobile devices. Sign up, Learn and Play!
Saylor.org: Open Access Week 2013: Redefining Impact in the Open Access Movement
October 21-27, 2013 is International Open Access Week, a global collection of events dedicated to furthering Open Access (OA) to research and scholarly data. Open Access Week was created by SPARC©, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, which promotes open publishing and digital access to scholarly articles, open availability of data (or Open Data), as [...]…
Udemy: Why Mnemonic Examples Rarely Work
People around the world desperately want a magic bullet that will fulfill their dreams of speaking a foreign language fluently. But as the founder of the Magnetic Memory Method for learning foreign language vocabulary and creator of Udemy’s How to Learn and Memorize the Vocabulary of Any Language, I have to be honest with you […]…
Udemy: Unprotect Excel Spreadsheets and Workbooks Easily
As you may know, Microsoft Excel has built-in features that allow you to control who can edit data, format cells, run reports, and even select cells and ranges. These protection features have applications where they can be very useful. For instance, if you have several people working on a complex workbook, they help to ensure […]…
Udemy: Creative Photography Ideas: How to Avoid Overused Ideas
Photographs are great to remember events by, but as a photographer, you might start looking through your portfolio and think, “I’ve shot that same kind of photo over and over again.” Maybe you’re looking for something to change it up a little for your own photos, or maybe you want to offer something new to […]…
Udemy: Excel #value Error: Make it Go Away!
One of the most frustrating things you can experience with Microsoft Excel (or any program for that matter) is when you get an error message that just doesn’t seem to make sense. You’ve plugged in your formula; you’re reasonably sure everything in it is precise; and still, instead of the data you want to see […]…
: 7 Scary Facts about Corporate Homeschooling
Homeschooling curriculum seems like a benign topic. Children need to learn and it can certainly help parents to have an organized accessible curriculum. In recent years, however, the curriculum corporations have taken some interesting, and frightening, turns. Driven by a clever plan to slip government money into the hands of business men, the corporations have made their virtual academies irresistible.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: getAbstract Branches Beyond Business Books with TED Summaries by News Editor
getAbstract provides executives worldwide with the best in business knowledge. The subscription service now offers summaries of TED Talks; each summary incorporates hyperlinks to the exact section of the video where the speaker discusses the linked information.
Learning Solutions Magazine: SpokenHere Partners with HelpFlix: Instructional Videos in Multiple Languages by News Editor
Multimedia localization is more complex than other translation projects, and requires experience to craft a translation that fits the timing of the original production. SpokenHere has teamed up with HelpFlix to create easy-to-understand product-assembly demonstration videos for non-English-speaking viewers.
Coursera: Coursera Partners with The World Bank
Coursera is privileged to host an incredibly diverse community of students, from all represented countries in the world, who come together to learn about subjects ranging from Computer Science to Roman History to Social Psychology. With 40% of our students coming from developing countries, we feel strongly about the potential to promote international development through educational opportunities on Coursera. Today we’re excited to share the news that we have partnered with The World Bank to offer a selection of their courses on development and poverty alleviation. This partnership, which is part of The World Bank’s new Open Learning Campus initiative, aims to give policymakers, on-the-ground practitioners and other interested parties access to valuable, practical knowledge on development strategies and challenges. The partnership will kick off with ‘Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided,” a course that covers the increasing…