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Udemy: Learn to Trade the Market: Some Basics for Brand New Stock Pickers
Do you have your money working for you? Maybe you have directed some investment dollars toward mutual funds. Perhaps you have even seen some decent results with that, provided you didn’t take a major hit when the market derailed in late 2009. And yet, if you are like many, you might be thinking you can […]…
Udemy: Programming Basics: It
If you have committed to learning programming and you plan to become a great developer, you may be getting ready to dive right in to learning specific languages and platforms. That’s great! But while you are doing it, don’t overlook the importance of a solid foundation in programming basics. Aside from the code itself, there […]…
Udemy: Java Game Programming for Fun and Profit
Java has long been hailed as one of the best platforms for creating online games. Because Java is a cross-platform programming language, your games can be run on Windows, Linux, and Apple machines without compiling for each OS separately. Obviously, to become a great Java game programmer, you will need to be very familiar with […]…
Udemy: Guitar Songs for Beginners: Four Great Tunes That Teach You Some Basic Skills
You got a guitar! All right! What songs can you play? Some people think they need to nail the basics before they start learning to play songs, and if that is what you were thinking, than I am happy to inform you that you are wrong. Sure, you are going to want to make sure […]…
Udemy: How to Write Android Apps (Even If You Aren
Mobile application development is the hottest thing in the programming world right now. The two most popular mobile platforms are Android and iOS (Apple). Although the numbers tend to fluctuate frequently, it seems that Android has taken the top spot from Apple. In the United States, at least 50% of all smartphone users have Android […]…
Udemy: How to Learn Hacking the Easy Way
Alright…so you decided you want to be a hacker. Great! But what next? How do you actually achieve the often misrepresented, but highly respected, skill set necessary to become a hacker? Fortunately, it is not difficult. It takes time and determination, but practically anyone can become a hacker with proper training. If you really want […]…
Udacity: Coffee Break EP19 [VIDEO]: Sebastian Thrun Announces Open Education Alliance
This week, Udacity had a great time at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, where Sebastian Thrun and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom spoke at a panel on the future of higher education. Sebastian talked about Udacity’s Open Education Alliance, an industry-wide alliance of employers and educators who want to provide higher education to empower students to pursue careers in tech.Tune in for TechCrunch highlights and to hear about future Udacity courses that will empower students and address the gap between skills employers need and what traditional universities teach. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Khan Academy: Khan Academy en Espa
Khan Academy just launched our Spanish website! There are approximately 6 billion non-English speakers in the world. In order to provide free resources to anyone in the world, we have spent the past year making it possible for our entire website experience to be translated into any written world language. By launching the Spanish version of the website, we are now providing access to half a billion Spanish speakers around the world. In the coming months and years we will translate our website into other languages. Spanish-speaking learners can now: 1. Grow with our personalized math experience Using the new learning dashboard (launched in August), learners receive personalized recommendations on what to work on next, have access to over 100,000 math practice problems, and can track their progress. 2. Explore tutorials in other topics Our tutorials cover a range of subject areas, including physics, chemistry, biology, art history and more. These tutorials are currently being translat…
Coursera: A milestone for Signature Track, Certificates for the life-long learner
At Coursera, we want to help you get recognized for your achievements in online learning, whether it is earned in a degree program or in a single online course. For this reason, we launched Signature Track in January of this year, which gives students the opportunity to earn Verified Certificates in recognition of their hard work and successful completion of some of Coursera’s rigorous course offerings. Today, Signature Track has reached a milestone 25,000 sign ups and $1 million in revenue, and in light of this, we’d like to share more about this program and the achievements of the students. As a young start-up, we are humbled to have reached this milestone within nine months of launching Signature Track. More importantly, the success of the Signature Track program validates the potential for students to benefit from what is becoming a brand new currency for lifelong learning achievement. Signature Track has been sought out from students in the US, Brazil, China, In…
Udemy: Marketing Manager Job Description and Three Focus Areas to Consider
Are you thinking about growing your career in marketing and trying to understand what is involved in the role of a marketing manager? Well, to start off, you should know that professionals whose positions fall under this title cover a fairly broad scope of responsibilities and skills. If you ask two separate marketing managers what […]…
Udemy: Guitar Notes For Beginners: Why and How You Should Learn the Fretboard
Are you starting out with guitar hoping you can learn your way around the instrument and jam with other players? Great! playing guitar can be a fulfilling outlet for creative expression. Even if you are starting with absolutely no prior knowledge of the instrument, you can jump right in to a complete course that will […]…
Udemy: Photo Editing Software For Mac Made Easy
It used to be that photographers took photographs. In today’s digital era, smartphones and easy-to-use point-and-shoot cameras have turned average Joes into picture-taking maniacs. But with the rise of new photographers came the plethora of photo editing software to help make pictures better. The giant among them was (and still is) Adobe’s Photoshop, an editing […]…
Udacity: College Algebra as a Path to Higher Education
Victoria At Udacity, we love hearing from students (seriously, drop us a line!) and we love sharing student stories with the community. Recently we got a note from Victoria, who took College Algebra for credit at San Jose State University, with the goal of passing a placement exam to test out of remedial math classes when she returned to university. I graduated high school in 95. I went back to school at Dalton State College, a local school, for a few semesters in 98 and 2000. While there, I was not able to attempt College Algebra before passing remedial math as my skills fell below the requirements for College Algebra. I had always had a really difficult time with math all through school. I did take and pass the remedial math classes (one had to be attempted twice), but failed College Algebra on my first (and only) attempt. The combination of my struggles with my crazy work schedule as a shift worker in a 911 center made it essentially impossible to dedicate the level of attention…
Saylor.org: Up and Coming: More K12 courses!
Calling all K12 students and teachers: Looking for some K12 common core-aligned resources and courses? Interested in supplementing your offline coursework with some technology to further enhance your learning? Then crack open your laptop! We’ve got lots of courses live and others are coming up in our K12 section at full speed! Read on for [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: eLearning Guild Research: Why Failing (While Learning) Is Good by Patti Shank
“Freedom to fail” is a critical gaming feature that players leverage in order to improve their achievement of the various goals within a game. The “do-over” provides motivation and rewards engagement, and that is one more reason why game learning can be so powerful. The eLearning Guild’s latest research report discusses this and many other facets of gaming. Here’s an introduction.
Udacity: SJSU Pilot Report Released
We are happy to share with our students that a detailed report about the SJSU Plus Spring Pilot is now available.In late 2012, our CEO, Sebastian Thrun, visited the National Science Foundation, and in a conversation with Don Millard the idea was born to create an independent study for our upcoming SJSU Spring Pilot. Shortly thereafter, the NSF funded SJSU for such a study, which hired the RP Group, an independent group of researchers. The report has now been made public by the SJSU Principal Investigator, Elaine Collins, and is available here.The report is worth reading. It contains a rich and insightful analysis of the student body, the outcomes, what went well, and what didn’t. As expressed in a previous blog post from Sebastian, many of the issues that didn’t work were fixed for the Summer Pilot; and we recognize that more work remains. Udacity does take issue with one paragraph from the report: “Another limitation resulted from the difficulty of obtaining Udacity…
Udemy: How to Learn Spanish R
Learning a language can be a challenging task, but if you choose to learn Spanish, your efforts won’t be wasted. With more than 500 million speakers worldwide, learning Spanish is a great choice for your job or simply for your personal interest. Check out these tricks for how to learn Spanish and you will be […]…
Udemy: RGB vs CMYK: The Color Shakedown
Color Basics Color comes from light. Without light there is no color. The sun contains all the colors of the rainbow. When sunlight (or any light) shines on an object, some of it is absorbed, and some reflected. This depends on the characteristics of the reflecting surface, angle of light, and the light source itself. […]…
Udemy: Best Audio Editing Software Qualities
If you work with audio files, you must always be on the lookout for latest editing software applications that provide you with the most options for the lowest price. There are several free to download audio editing software available online; however, these software applications usually come with a lot of strings attached, and fail to […]…
Udemy: Android Basics: Tips for getting on track to be an all-star developer
As the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Android holds immense potential for tech visionaries, developers, and entrepreneurs. Mobile technology, in general, is rapidly changing the way we live and do business; and ambitious tech start-ups are building new possibilities, better integration, and smoother interfaces all the time. Some analysts predict that by 2017, 82% […]…