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Saylor.org: CLEP Aligned Principles of Microeconomics Now Available on iTunes U!
Interested in getting a head start on learning economics? Want to take advantage of the CLEP® College Level Examination Program? Then crack open your new folder and notebook. Get your pens and styluses ready Our ECON101 CLEP-aligned version of Principles of Microeconomics is now available on our iTunes U channel! CLEP is a College Board program [...]…
Udacity: Neil: Shelf Stacker to Software Engineer
We love hearing from students who have taken our courses and leap-frogged into their careers in tech. Meet Neil, who sent a wonderful note about his journey from working as a shelf-stacker to recently starting his first job as a software engineer. Neil I've spent the last 6 years working for ASDA (Wal*Mart) in the UK, applying for 4 jobs every week with no avail. I took Udacity’s Intro to Computer Science course early last year. I've always been interested in programming, but never found a course that taught you by doing, and never found that next step. After taking CS101, I programmed some XNA games, and bought Head First C# and Beginning ASP.NET. A month ago, I got my first computer/web programming job without a bachelors degree, earning more than twice what I did at Asda, no weekends, no public holidays. My new job involves web development, with ASP.NET and a bit of front-end work with JQuery. I have an amount of trust from my workplace that I've never even dreamt of…
: WizIQ Support Goes 24X7
At WizIQ, a part of the office is bustling with activity every weekend (a very unlikely scene at a typical workplace). It seems that the folks from the WizIQ Support Team are completely oblivious of the weekend (or so we think).… Read the rest…
Coursera: 3 Helpful Tips for Younger Students on Coursera
Editor’s note: Khadija Niazi is a Courserian living in Pakistan. She and her brother are turning 13 this year and have each completed over 6 courses already. They recently posted about their experience. Now, along with their mom, they are going to share their perspective on MOOCs for young students and families! I believe that I represent everyone who has a passion for education – someone trying to learn under many different circumstances. But I’m also just like any other 13-year-old student you might come across in your daily life. When I started taking courses on Coursera, the only thing that mattered to me was gaining knowledge. Studies were never a burden; I love learning – at school, or even while watching TV. I learned very early on that education doesn’t need to be confined to a classroom, holding a book in your hand. Education is out there, everywhere; all you need to do is go find the right key for the door. That’s why I turned to MOOCs…
Learning Solutions Magazine: The Gamification of Retail Safety and Loss Prevention Training by Karl Kapp
In spite of a robust store-level safety and loss prevention awareness program, employees were not retaining or operationalizing the learning. With over 19,000 employees undergoing the training, it was becoming important for Pep Boys to find a way to make the learning stick over a longer period. The answer may surprise you: games. Read about how they did it.
Saylor.org: MMD: The Mini Afternoon Edition: Avenues for Learning
Good afternoon and happy Monday! Let us help you take a break from the routine (it might even be time to call it a day). This week we are focusing on news about the many different venues for learning. As technology continues to advance, it has helped to further diversify the roads and avenues for [...]…
Udacity: Udacity Global Meetup -- Opening Soon in a Computer Near You!
The Second Annual Udacity Global Meetup on July 20th is fast approaching! And we’ve had an overwhelming response to our meetups -- thanks for letting us know we can expect to meet over a thousand Udacians at the event! We’ve actually outgrown our first venue in Palo Alto, and -- as we approach 400 RSVPs at that location -- have upsized to a space that can hold more than double the capacity of our first location! We want to make sure that we have enough food and beverage for our Udacious community members and job readiness enthusiasts, so please take a moment to update your RSVP for the Global Meetup. For Udacians tuning in from around the globe, be sure to download your Global Meetup Organizer Kits, and plan to tune in to the Hangout On Air starting at 2.30pm PDT. Don’t forget that the top ten largest Meetup communities outside of the United States will get a call with someone from the Udacity team! No matter where you are, check our social channels for the Hangout O…
Learning Solutions Magazine: MOOCs in Higher Education: Options, Affordances, Pitfalls (Part 1) by Apostolos Koutropoulos
MOOCs have attracted considerable attention in the last two years. There is much confusion about the MOOC formats (there are two at present), the technology, and what it takes to make a MOOC successful. This, the first of two articles, addresses these issues in a way that will inform readers in higher education as well as those in other organizational contexts.
Udacity: Coffee Break EP11 [VIDEO]: Leonard Susskind on Differential Equations
Happy Friday and welcome to Coffee Break! This week, tune in for a preview of additional interview content added to Differential Equations in Action. World-renowned theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind talks about the use of differential equations in physics. We had a great time hearing his thoughts on the relationship between mathematics and physics, why physicists build increasingly bigger machines, as well as his favorite differential equation. This Coffee Break features a portion Leonard’s thoughts on differential equations. For the complete six-part interview, check out Lesson 4 of Differential Equations in Action. http://blog.udacity.com/feeds/posts/default…
Udacity: From Reinventing Education to Reinventing Science
Andrés At Udacity, we’re constantly inspired by seeing others work to broaden access to education and information. We want to share a great note from Andrés, a Physics PhD student who writes that Udacity’s “effort to reinvent education is an inspiration for me to try to reinvent science.” He elaborates by sharing thoughts on his journey in opening access to information as a PhD student: The way we do science hasn't changed much in the last 300 years. We live still in a publish or perish paradigm in which almost the only valuable scientific contribution to the world is a published journal article (behind a steep paywall, of course). But there's a wealth of useful information unfit for such publications that we could share, reuse and profit from. While making my own research for my PhD I wanted to have a written record of everything I do, all the ideas (good and bad), discussions, datasets, source code, plots, etc. so I could share them…
Learning Solutions Magazine: eLearning Guild Research: Is Your LMS Social Enough? by Patti Shank
For members of The eLearning Guild, social learning seems to be close to the tipping point in importance. Here are some insights from Guild Research about the level of importance, the future role of the LMS as it relates to informal and social learning, and the ways in which the Experience API (Tin Can) will be changing that role.
Learning Solutions Magazine: ProExam Releases ProExam Vault for Digital Credentials by News Editor
Web-based software eases creation and management of credentials displayed as digital open badges.
Udacity: Show Off Your Achievements in an Online Portfolio
At Udacity, we love to hear from students who have caught the “programming bug” from our courses, and who take extra steps to showcase their new skills to the world! Whether you’re broadcasting your new expertise to get into your career in tech or to get into college, consider creating an online portfolio for your accomplishments.Today we’d like to introduce David Lipowicz, a 17-year-old Udacian hailing from the UK who made his own website, borntostudycomputerscience.com, to share his personal projects - websites, music, games, design - work experience, and Udacity courses. As you can see from his website, David has used his knowledge of computer science to explore several side projects. David also makes it easy for the reader to see he’s taken Intro to Computer Science, Intro to Theoretical Computer Science, Intro to Statistics, and Programming Languages, and he’s shared his course completion certificates for each of these courses.
Coursera: Coursera Secures $43M in Series B Funding, Plans to Double in Size
Today, we’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve closed $43M in Series B funding from GSV Capital, International Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank, Laureate Education Inc., Learn Capital and Yuri Milner, as well as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates, who participated in our Series A round of funding and are furthering their investment in this round as well. Since we launched in April 2012, we’ve grown to offer around 400 courses from 83 educational institutions, and we recently hit the 4 million student mark! These investors, spanning the sectors of Internet technology, education technology, and emerging world markets, closely align with our efforts to continue building the technologies and global communities necessary to allow students around the world to learn without limits. Moreover, as a social entrepreneurship company, we’re committed to offering free courses to benefit its global audien…
Saylor.org: Where we
Sometimes our work can feel close by, bounded by the river to the south, the High Street to the north, the snarls of downtown to the east, and the wilds of Virginia to the west — or even by the borders of a computer screen. The team behind the blog, social media, and the contact [...]…
Saylor.org: US Foreign Policy Now Available on iTunes U!
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” - Former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Interested in what fears, truths, histories, theorems and factors have impacted US foreign policy? Want to [...]…
Udacity: Student Story on Broadening Access to Education
As we get ready for the Udacity Global Meetup on Saturday, July 20th, we’re thrilled to watch the RSVP count grow and we can’t wait to meet more Udacity students as we celebrate community and job readiness! Bill, a Udacity student from Los Angeles, will attend the Los Angeles Global Meetup, and we want to share his note on why he supports Udacity’s mission to broaden access to education. He’ll be helping out at the meetup and we can’t thank him enough for not just his volunteer time but this story he shared -- stories like these keep us inspired by what we’re all building together: 6 weeks ago, I was visiting Stemnitsa, a small village in Greece where my father's side of the family is from (my parents are Greek immigrants to the US). I've been 9 times to Stemnitsa and I absolutely love the place. People visit there during the summer, so the population during the winter is maybe about 100 people. I recently learned that the local high school stud…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Marc My Words: Five Reasons to Use Performance Support by Marc J. Rosenberg
Performance support—simple tools that guide and support people as they carry out tasks—is an effective, low-cost complement to instruction. Here are five quick points that you can use as the basis for your “elevator speech” that explains the concept to your colleagues and stakeholders, and three valuable resources that will help you implement the concept.
Saylor.org: MMD: The Mini-Afternoon Edition: Life After Higher Ed.
Good afternoon, and happy Monday! After having celebrated our independence over the weekend, we are back from vacation and ready to give you another wonderful edition of MMD. But since it’s the afternoon and we know that your Mondays can get busy very fast, this week’s MMD will be a little brief. For this week, [...]…
: At last: The First English Language Teacher Training MOOC of its kind.
It’s time to shed light on Jason. R. Levine’s new initiative for teachers all around the world. The first ELT teacher training MOOC of its kind is about to be launched on WizIQ. The brain-child of Jason, this global initiative is really a streamlined vision designed to accelerate professional development for teachers everywhere.… Read the rest…