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Coursera: Coursera Announces Professional Development Courses to Facilitate Lifelong Learning for Teachers
Editor’s Note: Julia Stiglitz is the Director of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development at Coursera. Nine years ago, I walked as a new teacher into my 4th grade classroom in East San Jose and began my career in education. I owe much of my success during that first year (which was even more intense than the first year of a startup!) to Sean, my coach and mentor, who guided my professional development and gave me the crucial feedback that I needed. Today we are extremely pleased to announce the launch of a teacher professional development category on Coursera. We believe that helping teachers improve their skills is an important contribution that we can make to the education of students everywhere. We are truly excited about the possibilities that having these courses available for free online, to be used independently or in a blended learning capacity, will open up for teachers, schools, and districts. Seven leading schools of education have joined this initiative, i…
Udemy: The Roundup: Instructor Promotion Resources (How to Promote Your Udemy Courses)
Wondering where you can learn how to promote your Udemy courses? You’ve come to the right place. Below is a list of the resources published on the blog, designed to help you enroll more students into your courses. We will add more links as we publish more resources. Enjoy! How to: Get Record Course Sales Your First 30 Days on Udemy 1,400 students in 2 days—How did Udemy Instructor Justin Mitchel do it? How Slickdeals got an instructor 1,000 students... Continue reading »…
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Hungry for some new skills in operations management? Craving some information on how to apply that good ol’ “transformation model?” Well then dig in — BUS300: Operations Management is our course o’ the week! An organization can be a lot like baking your favorite dessert. Each ingredient and step has to be measured and timed [...]…
Saylor.org: 250+ Options Toward Affordable Pathways to College Credit
When I initially drafted this piece about affordable options for college credit, I was going to frame it with background information and shocking details about the rising cost of education, how that cost is outpacing other economic indicators, and how student loan debt has reached $1,000,000,000,000. But you already knew that. So I’ll jump right [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: The Story Arc Model: Combining Simulation and Story to Create Memorable Learning by Jack McGrath
“Simulation” is a technique that is useful across many different instructional situations. By far the most important task in designing effective simulations is creating scenarios that reflect the real world. The story arc model can help you master this challenge.
Saylor.org: Marketing Yourself to Employers
Calling all students: So, you’ve been taking our courses here at Saylor for a while now (or just getting started — welcome!) and many of you have asked about badges, credits, etc. as ways to include your achievements on your transcripts and resume. Let’s focus on that resume, shall we? I mean, why not? You [...]…
Saylor.org: MMD: Ed. Tech. Advances in the World of Science
Good Morning and Happy Monday! This week, science and experimentation have made some great advances lately-thanks to technology. Some have been getting some help from politics and rewards. Still, others are in the experiment stage. We begin this week with online test proctoring. Webcams can provide us with the ability to take videos and pictures of ourselves [...]…
Udacity: Intro to Parallel Programming Promotion Results
Congrats to all of our Top Scorer in our Intro to Parallel Programming promotion that was sponsored by NVIDIA. Students in this course performed exceptionally well, and their programs ran 5-10 times faster than the reference solutions that were written for the class. Great job! Not only was it exciting to see the achievements of the participants in the contest but it was also great to see the community of global Udacians come together and share different GPU optimization techniques. Students that participated had varying levels of experience in parallel programming ranging from college students to researchers and software engineers and all pulled together to help each other out! Students who participated all had different motivations for taking the course and all accepted the challenges that the course presented. Some of the things that students enjoyed the most about the course were: “clear presentation of the material by people who are obvious experts in the subject&rd…
Learning Solutions Magazine: What's in a Story? More Than You Can Tell by Diane Senffner
Whether we’re teaching students, corporate staff, volunteers, customers, or clients, we all face common problems in the design of eLearning. It’s amazing how something as simple as a story can make a breakthrough difference in the credibility and relevance of learning content. Here’s a personal success story, and the secret behind it.
ALISON: FREE ONLINE LEAVING CERTIFICATE MATHS RESOURCE LAUNCHED TO GIVE EVERY IRISH STUDENT EXTRA HELP WITH THEIR MATHS STUDIES
UNESCO award winning educator ALISON.com has launched a new comprehensive interactive and free online learning maths resource aligned with the Irish Leaving Certificate Maths Syllabus. The new resource will complement maths teaching across Ireland and was developed in co-operation with Galway Education Centre, the Athenry Maths Academy and local Galway-based Project Maths Teachers. ALISON is a global leader in free online learning with two million registered learners.
Saylor.org: Kathi Fletcher on #DigEdCon and Ed Tech
Kathi Fletcher, a fellow with the Shuttleworth Foundation and presenter at #DigEdCon, shared her thoughts on the conference and on the wider questions of technology in education: “Notes from the Saylor Digital Education Conference April 2013” (16 April 2013), on: Kathi Fletcher’s Blog Shuttleworth Foundation Of note: [Michael Saylor] stressed that the goal of the [...]…
: 5 Ways to Blend Exam Courses Online
In many countries around the world schools are operating with minimal resources. Books and multi-media resources from big publishers cost a lot. Some publishers have moved online to sell e-learning products which still cost a lot. The good news is that nowadays we can access a lot of content for free or for low-cost subscription rates online.… Read the rest…
Coursera: Make Work, School or Life more streamlined with the Introduction to Operations Course!
With MOOC platforms, students in the (virtual) global classroom are not just learners, but doers. The time between learning a new concept in the course and trying it out in practice has shrunk from weeks, months, or years to days. Last week, we told you about a Design Course which prompted students to apply their design skills to create something to improve their lives; today, we want to tell you about another Coursera Course which has taken this concept to practice: “An Introduction to Operations Management”, offered by Christian Terwiesch of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The course will go live for the second time on Monday (4/29/2013). In the first offering, the course attracted some 87,000 students, the strong contingent of them being active as business professionals and university students. They applied the knowledge from the course to operations related tasks at work, school and home. To capture that “From Knowledge to Action&rdq…
Udemy: How to Do a Handstand: Top 6 Tips for Handstand Success
If you’re reading this article, you probably fall under one of three categories: 1. You are enrolled in my Udemy handstand course and want some extra help with your handstands. 2. You’ve always wanted to learn to do a handstand, and this article piqued your curiosity. 3. You’re wondering why in the world Udemy would post an article about handstands. Believe it or not, no matter which category you fall under, you can definitely benefit from learning more about handstands.... Continue reading »…
Udacity: The Past, Present and Future of User Experience
Happy Friday, Udacians! As we prepare for the weekend, we at Udacity are getting inspired about the future! For some of you, gearing up for the future might involve enrolling in our summer classes, offered in partnership with San Jose State University. Or, you might be be more focused on the immediate future with fun weekend plans. For me personally, thinking about what's ahead involves the future of user experience at Udacity. Have you taken a Udacity class and embarked on a project where user experience has come into play? For instance, are any HTML5 alums still thinking about how to optimize game design for a great user experience? Has anyone from our How to Build a Startup class learned any surprising lessons from their user interviews? We’d love to hear what you’ve done and how our classes have shaped your experiments! Share your experiences by May 13th and you could be invited to attend a special panel discussion at Udacity, the evening of May 23rd, with the fol…
Saylor.org: MOOC News & Reviews: An Interview with Tina Grant, NCCRS
If you’ve been having a slow start to your Friday morning, or just been cruising (or carousing) around for some interesting news, you might have noticed the article MOOC Credit Watch – Q&A with the National College Credit Recommendation Service. In this piece, MOOC News & Reviews‘ Robert McGuire interviews NCCRS Director Tina Grant. The breakdown: NCCRS, affiliated with the [...]…
Coursera: 3 Tips from Jonathan Haber on Coursera Time Management!
Editor’s note: Jonathan Haber is a Courserian who is taking classes for 12 months on Coursera to experiment with a project of his called “Degree of Freedom”. He is guest blogging on our site throughout this next year to keep us up-to-date on his progress! Good morning Coursera-land! A few weeks back, I ran a series on MOOCs and time over at my Degree of Freedom site that delved into subjects like how to schedule classes and set priorities in an online learning world where schedules are so flexible. Because the flexibility of anywhere, anytime learning comes at a price. For if it’s easy to schedule this week’s lectures and assignments on any day of the week, it’s just as easy to let them slip into next week. And do that enough times and pretty soon the workload needed to complete a course becomes so daunting that it becomes easier just to drop the class. One of the key reasons I’ve heard that people dropped a MOOC course they had every i…
Saylor.org: Be the (face and voice of the) change you wish to see in the world
One of the first places I go on a website is the team page, if there is one. There’s something about seeing the faces, names, and quirks behind the site that kind of takes the strange off and kickstarts community. There’s nothing really surprising in that, of course. It’s why we invite you to share [...]…
: Create a Website to Complete a Project that Started with a Website
The world’s new reality It all begins and ends with the web. We can engage students in the creation of that reality, and maybe tweak it towards joy and sustainability. The web has changed our lives. It is the virtual which is also the real.… Read the rest…
Udemy: 1,400 students in 2 days
Within just 2 days of publishing his Udemy course, Justin Mitchel is already interacting with over 1,400 students—all presumably enthusiastic about learning to code. I interviewed him to find out exactly what he did to achieve these results, why he’s focused on reach over revenue, and the one thing every instructor can do to attract more students into their courses. How did you get over 1,400 students into your course in 2 days? I receive and read all of the... Continue reading »…