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Udacity: How Udacity helped me get a summer internship at Google (without a CS degree)
Brent testing out Google Glass Udacity’s community is full of passionate students who come from diverse professional backgrounds, and who are taking Udacity courses to advance their careers in tech, including those who have made a jump into computer science through our courses from other backgrounds. Today we want to introduce Brent, a Udacity student who majored in physics and worked in finance -- and who wanted to learn more about programming and computer science to explore careers that included technical aspects. Through his experiences, he’s now interning at Google in product management. I took my first computer science course in my senior year of college and quickly realized I had made a huge mistake. I loved programming, but it was pretty much too late to take more CS courses. I regretted it again when I joined the working world and realized that while I rarely had to solve the type of complex mathematical problems I had worked on as a physics major, te…
Khan Academy: Interview with Secretary Duncan
Sal will be interviewing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and we want you to take part! We hope you’ll join the conversation. Here’s how you get involved: Post your questions in the comments section below, or Ask questions on Twitter with the hashtag #DuncanKhan and on the Khan Academy facebook page Tomorrow, Friday, August 23rd, watch the full interview on KhanAcademy.org and at WhiteHouse.gov…
Coursera: Life of Bryan, Coursera Infrastructure Intern
Editor’s note: Meet Bryan Kane, one of Coursera’s summer interns from George Washington University. Bryan, in this insightful blog post, shares the day-to-day adventures of working at Coursera this summer. Thank you for all your hard work, Bryan. We will miss you!! This past summer, I had the lucky opportunity to intern as a software engineer at Coursera on the infrastructure team. As the summer came to a close, my mentor suggested that I write a blog post about my experiences and projects, so here it goes: Being an East-Coaster at heart (raised in NY, going to college in DC), I was nervous about moving across the country on my own for the summer. Luckily I came to realize very quickly that the people at Coursera are some of the nicest and most welcoming people I’ve ever met! On my first day, I remember waking up around 7am, checking my phone, and finding over 20 emails from people all across the team welcoming me to Coursera. Once I had made my way into the Mountai…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Weejee Learning: Special Rates for eLearning to Associations by News Editor
Weejee Learning gives back as a way of saying thanks.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Research for Practitioners: Are There Basic Principles Across All Instructional Design Models? by Angela van Barneveld
The intention of instructional design theories and models is to ground or guide us in our learning design efforts to address learner and organizational needs. But do they all have equal value? Here is a summary of the research findings of M. David Merrill.
: Offering Now: Free Membership for K-12 and College Educators worth $690
Back to School Summer is over and so are holidays. Its back to school, not just for students, but for teachers as well. Endless classes, umpteen assignments, countless lesson plans. There is just no getting away from all this, once school starts.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Lectora Announces CourseMill LMS 6.8 SP2 by News Editor
New updates and improvements make powerful learning management system even better.
Learning Solutions Magazine: SumTotal, Skillsoft Expand Partnership, Launch Context-Aware Talent Solution by News Editor
New offering helps organizations rationalize big HR data by extending SumTotal’s elixHR platform to enable the pervasive, dynamic delivery of best-action learning and talent development content within SumTotal’s talent expansion solutions.
Coursera: Coursera Offers a Warm
Today, we are pleased to welcome the University of Zurich (UZH), who will join École Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne and University of Geneva as our third Swiss partner. University of Zurich is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 26,000 enrolled students. UZH is a member of the “League of European Research Universities” (LERU), Europe’s most prestigious research institution and has received international recognition for its research in the fields of medicine, immunology, genetics, neuroscience and structural biology, and economics. They will be kicking off their partnership by offering a course taught in German called Informatik für Ökonomen (Computer Science for Economists), a popular course taught by Dr. Abraham Bernstein, a professor in the university’s Department of Informatics (Department of computer science). Dr. Bernstein’s background in organizational psychology, sociology and economics, coupled with…
Saylor.org: What Happens When OER Stops Being Polite, and Starts Getting Real
SXSWedu (not to mention the wider SXSW festival ecosystem) is a must-have conference pit stop for Spring 2014. K20 educators, entrepreneurs, policy folk and nonprofit reps will convene March 3-6 to make, hack and chat up the latest in the education space…and that’s where we come in. We’re throwing our hats in the proverbial ring [...]…
NovoED: How a NovoED Course Helped to Shape the Path of a Microsoft Business Leader
When Sonal Mane enrolled in Chuck Eesley’s “Technology Entrepreneurship” class, she was managing the globalization project for the Windows 8 Store. Though she had already experienced shipping releases for Office 2007 and Bing, and had a plethora of product development … Continue reading → The post How a NovoED Course Helped to Shape the Path of a Microsoft Business Leader appeared first on NovoED.
Coursera: Welcoming Lila Ibrahim to Coursera
It’s been an exciting journey since our launch last April. In this short time, we’ve partnered closely with 86 universities and institutions to deliver hundreds of classes to 4.4 million learners (and counting). We’ve also launched new programs to support student learning, including Coursera’s successful Signature Track, the Teacher Professional Development Track, and the Global Translation Partners Program. Thanks to great faculty and universities around the world, we’ve become the leader in creating solutions for education access and affordability. To accelerate our next phase of growth, we are delighted to add Lila Ibrahim to our team as Coursera’s first President. She will join our co-founders and co-CEOs to form the Executive Office. During this period of time, she will remain an operating partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Lila has worked closely with the company founders over the past year. She has been consistently pass…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Brainshark Introduces VideoSync: Combine Video and Slides by News Editor
With VideoSync, users can now show video and slides side-by-side to more effectively highlight subject matter experts and increase audience engagement.
Learning Solutions Magazine: MOOC: Badges as New Currency for Credentials by News Editor
Industry leaders and educational experts with WCET, Mozilla, Blackboard, and Sage Road Solutions will explore the use of badges as powerful new tools to openly represent flexible portable learning and skill and competency achievements. The free MOOC will run September 9 to October 14, 2013. Read this press release for details and registration information.
Udemy: JDBC Interview Questions and Answers
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is a topic of practically every interview involving the Java programming language. JDBC is a Java API that permits communication with relational databases. **Learn to create dynamic applications and websites using Java with this Udemy tutorial** You will need to be prepared to prove that you are competent with JDBC, because it […]…
Udemy: Thunderbird vs Outlook: Finding The Right Email Client
Microsoft Outlook has dominated the world of e-mail clients for many years. Gmail and Yahoo Mail have emerged as popular competitors. The creators of the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corporation, also offer an attractive email client called Thunderbird. Let’s take a closer look at a Thunderbird vs Outlook comparison. Learn Microsoft Outlook 2010! Low Cost If […]…
Udemy: AutoCAD Tutorial: A Quick And Painless Guide For AutoCAD Beginners
AutoCAD’s advanced capabilities open entire new worlds in the realm of technology, but something continues to hold you back. Perhaps fear of a program that, from an outsider’s perspective, looks complex and overwhelming. But the great thing about AutoCAD is, once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s relatively easy to pick up on the rest of […]…
Udemy: SharePoint Tutorial: Getting Up and Running
SharePoint is a collaboration tool, used by businesses to create websites, store and organize data, and access information. It can be accessed through any web browser, so it is constantly available through smart devices. **Learn to navigate SharePoint 2010 and add/modify site content with this Udemy tutorial** SharePoint comes in both free and paid versions. The […]…
Udemy: Lack of jobs or lack of skills? That is the question
A survey by the Manpower Group reveals that 49% of employers struggle to find skilled workers in the labor market. The 21st-century business world is dynamic and academic institutions are failing to prepare students for this highly competitive environment. The solution to the current unemployment rate is not only creating more jobs but also equipping […]…
Saylor.org: MMD: Back to School!
Good Morning and happy Monday! This week, many students are beginning to return to school. But before we hit some of the news highlights of the week behind, I have an announcement, justifying our late post: This morning and afternoon, we celebrated our firstdown at the Georgetown Waterfront with our friends in the DC Metro area. [...]…