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Udacity: Welcome to our new VP of Engineering & Data Science and VP of Product Management!
Everyone here at Udacity, from Sebastian on down, is excited to welcome Nitin Sharma as our VP of Engineering & Data Science and Brent Tworetzky as our VP of Product Management! We’re incredibly honored that both Nitin and Brent have joined our team, bringing incredible passion, new ideas, and years of experience in building great experiences for our students. Nitin and Brent introduce themselves below: Brent Tworetzky Nitin Sharma What is your background? Nitin: Most recently, I was at Groupon leading the Data Science team. We used data to drive decision making on product, marketing and business strategy, to design better products, and optimize the user experience by examining how users are interacting with the product. Before that, I worked on the Google Search Ads Quality team, where we also used data to measure the quality of ad experience on Google Search and how to improve ad relevance. A common theme in my work has been to use data at massive scale to…
Udemy: Google Analytics Bounce Rate Explained
It’s nearly impossible to read any tutorial on digital marketing without coming across the word ‘bounce rate’. This web analytics metric has been mystifying new users for years since it was first implemented by Google Analytics. This would’ve all been fine if bounce rate wasn’t also intrinsic to determining the quality of a web page. […]…
Udemy: Piano Tutorial: A Beginner
From Beethoven to Billy Joel, the humble piano has been a mainstay of western music since the 18th century. It has lent voice to the imaginations of composers like Mozart, Hummel, Elton John, and Philip Glass. Most of your favorite songs, from “Someone Like You” by Adele, to “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John, were written […]…
Udemy: Photo Manipulation Tutorials: How to Remove Background from an Image in Photoshop
A photograph without a background can be used for many different purposes – you can stick it in a collage, add it to a logo, or slap it on a webpage. This is probably why removing the background is one of the first things a designer learns to do in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we […]…
Saylor.org: 2 for 1: K12 Math and ELA 006 Now Available on iTunes U
Calling 6th-grade teachers, students, and homeschoolers too — we have a great recipe cooked up just for you! All rhyming aside, the mobile-flavored K12ELA006 English Language Arts 6 and K12MATH006 Math 6 are now available on the Saylor Foundation’s iTunes U channel! The Course Deets: K12ELA006: This Common Core aligned English Language Arts course is geared towards sixth grade [...]…
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Why Learn Business Negotiation? The Art of Negotiating is critical to business, everywhere in the world. And it is one skill that is developed with time and experience, rather than inherited. Business contexts such as deal-making, employment discussions, corporate team building, labor/management talks, contracts, and handling disputes, negotiation is a key ingredient in making of a good manager/leader.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Book Review: Learning Articulate Storyline by Stephanie Harnett by David Kelly
Since it was introduced last year, Articulate Storyline has become one of the most popular eLearning rapid- development tools on the market. The learning curve for Storyline is less steep than for some tools, but there’s still plenty to learn. Stephanie Harnett’s new book intends to fill that gap. Here’s an expert’s review of this new guide.
Udemy: New Frontiers: Become the Leader of Enrollments or Leader of Sales on Udemy
I wanted to share what we’re doing this month on the Instructor Promotion side. One thing we’ve seen since our instructor community started forming is that you are incredibly creative and resourceful. Every month, at least one instructor discovers a new tactic, place, or approach that creates enrollments and/or sales for them and others. So, this month, we’re […]…
ALISON: ALISON launches Re-designed Certificates with State-of-the-Art Security Features
ALISON has redesigned its Certificates, Diplomas and Transcript Sheets with new enhanced security features ensuring that an ALISON qualification is unique to our valued learner.
Udemy: How to write a research proposal that gets you sponsored
It’s a common refrain: great scientists are not necessarily great writers. You have no doubt slogged through enough dense, dry, and awkwardly phrased write-ups that you can probably find reason to concur with this statement. And yet, practicing science so often involves writing. Whether it’s publishing in a journal or putting out funding requests, the […]…
Udemy: Book Writing Software Can Jumpstart Your Creativity
As a writer, you may be familiar with the countless software packages available designed to help you flesh out your book ideas using a formula created by somebody else. Although these programs do have some uses, do you really want your book to be created based on someone else’s idea about how it should be […]…
Udemy: How to Become a Motivational Speaker and Love the Work You Do
Who wouldn’t love to inspire crowds for a living? If this is something you think you would be great at, you may be interested in pursuing oppurtunities in motivational speaking. But since the process of attaining your status as a motivational speaker is quite different from that of traditional career paths, you might need some […]…
Coursera: Bonjour Ecole Centrale Paris!
In addition to École Normale Supérieure and HEC Paris, we’re delighted to welcome another French university into our community - Ecole Centrale Paris - who will join Coursera to build out our engineering offerings. Founded in 1829, Ecole Centrale Paris is a Grand Ecole and one of the top engineering schools in Europe. Its multiple disciplinary approach blends scientific and technical studies with the social and human realities of today’s challenges, instilling in students the motivation to understand, anticipate and create technologies for tomorrow’s world. Previous alumni have certainly made their marks on society: Gustave Eiffel, engineer of Paris’ most famous landmark, and Andre Michelin, whose name you might find on your car tires. Even the open source video software, VLC, that you use to watch your favorite movies - that’s a product of Ecole Centrale Paris. Ecole Centrale Paris will be launching three initial courses, a…
Udemy: Best Recording Software: A Roundup of the Five Best Audio Recording Tools on the Market
Whether you’re a hobbyist tinkering with a guitar, an amateur DJ about to perform at a packed club, or a professional recording engineer with a thriving studio practice, you will need recording software of some sorts. Professional-grade recording software doesn’t come cheap with prices usually starting at $350+. Given the high initial investment, you want […]…
Udemy: Best Animation Software 2D and 3D: From everyday business to imaginary worlds
Animation is an art form that has captured the human imagination for a very long time. Even though the necessary technology for recorded animation dates back to just over a century ago, archaeologists have discovered even pre-historic attempts to depict motion in images. Allowing creative people such freedom to represent new worlds and new possibilities, […]…
Udemy: Drawing Tutorial: Five Tips to Master the Art of Drawing
Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is born an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up”. While Picasso may have had a more philosophical explanation in mind, the quote is equally relevant in a more practical scenario. As children, we could spend entire days with a box of crayons […]…
Udemy: Excel Macros Tutorial: How to Create a Simple Macro in Excel 2013
Macros are little programs that run within Excel and help automate common repetitive tasks. Macros are one of Excel’s most powerful, yet underutilized feature. Using macros, you can save hours and boost productivity manifold. In this blog post, we will learn how to create an ultra-simple macro in Excel 2013 to introduce you to the […]…
Udemy: How to ask for a promotion: Five tips for planning the conversation.
It can be a nerve-wracking experience, approaching the boss to ask for greater responsibility and (gasp) more money. There is the fear of rejection, first and foremost, along with the concern that you might lose motivation or your relationship with your boss might suffer if this doesn’t pan out. Well, most of us have worries […]…
Udemy: Macros in Excel 2007: Learn to Work Smarter and Save Time with These Tools
It has to be said: if you are repeating a lot of tasks manually in Excel, you are probably wasting time. Sure, it takes a bit of work up front to automate, but in the long run, you are going to save yourself a lot of mouse clicks. And that means you’re going to get […]…
Saylor.org: Throwing Down The Gauntlet at The Congressional E-Learning Caucus
Yesterday, our colleague Jeff Davidson went to Capitol Hill to participate in a Congressional E-Learning Caucus panel on “The College Degree of the Future”. With him were John Ebersole of Excelsior College and Michael Staton of Learn Capital. Jeff laid it out clean when riffing on the $1 trillion US student debt: “‘We can’t even open all [...]…