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Udemy: Instructor Story: How Lee Varis became a Udemy Bestseller
Lee Varis joined Udemy recently and has already joined the ranks as a Udemy Bestseller. I spoke with Lee about why he chooses to publish courses on Udemy and how he got so many students into his course during his first two months. Lee teaches The Fundamentals of Photo-Illustration in Photoshop. Why Udemy? I heard about Udemy from a friend. I’m also on Lynda.com and creativeLIVE, but they both only pay me 15-20% of sales. Furthermore, Lynda gives me no control... Continue reading »…
Coursera: First Real Life and Virtual Coursera Ideahack Meetup on Gamification on April 26th!
Hello friends! On April 26, the Digital October Center in Moscow will host a first-ever interactive, ideahack meetup for participants of the Coursera Gamification course with Professor Kevin Werbach, which will simultaneously happen in person and online! Here is more information: WHO: Up to 200 Students from Moscow (in-person) and up to 45 students from all over the world (virtual). WHAT: A 2-hour Gamification Problem Solving Meetup called Ideahack! Together with virtual and face-to-face students, small groups of ~10 will create solutions for sustainability issues by applying gamification principles. WHEN: On April 26, from 8-10AM EST (7-9PM Moscow time) in-person and online (link will be sent to those who successfully register). LANGUAGES: The meetup is bilingual (English + Russian); simultaneous translation provided. SPECIAL BONUS: Kevin Werbach, from University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, will personally review the results of the teams’ work. PRIZE…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Citrix Adds Do-it-yourself Webcasting, Announces New HDFaces GoToTraining Beta by News Editor
From small-group presentations to stadium-filled sales seminars, Citrix connects people with a full range of video-enabled collaboration tools.
Saylor.org: Course o
Curious about organizational behavior? Interested in the benefits of diversity in the workplace? Need to touch-up on your negotiating strategies? Then consider your curiosity satisfied and needs fulfilled: BUS 209 Organizational Behavior is our iTunes U Course o’ the Week! You will also learn how work attitudes affect the atmosphere, about motivation’s influence on job [...]…
Udacity: A Day at Udacity: Andy
Hello! My name is Andy. I’m Udacity’s “Lead Instructor.” I’m not exactly sure what that means, but whatever it is, it’s pretty awesome. I get to work with enthusiastic, creative people to solve interesting educational problems. One of those people is Chris. He teaches math at Udacity. Chris is happy because he's thinking about circles. Friday morning, Chris and I were getting ourselves pumped up about circles. Now, I know what you’re thinking, “What!? Are you saying you weren’t ALREADY pumped about circles!?” And no, of course I’m not saying that. These shapes are amazing! I mean, any circle that you’d ever want to draw can be fully described by just three numbers. Three! That’s right. A circle--a collection of an infinite number of points--can be fully defined by just three numbers! Wow. The majestic circle! Fully defined by three parameters! Once we got excited, we had to brainstorm how…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Toolkit: Lectora Inspire by Joe Ganci
Lectora from Trivantis is not a newcomer to the eLearning development tool market. However, the latest version is an overhaul from the ground up, and in this review, Joe reports that it feels like a brand-new tool.
Udacity: Keepin
This weekend, Udacity proudly participated in the second annual She++ conference at Stanford University. The She++ conference is Stanford’s first conference on women in technology; we listened to experiences from women tech entrepreneurs, encouraged each other to follow our passions (even if we have doubts!), and rolled up our sleeves to broaden our tech horizons in fun workshops. Udacity hosted a workshop called “Create Your Own Mini Online Course,” where we talked about one of our big passions - creating interactive online courses to teach principles from the STEM fields. We shared our experiences with online learning pedagogy, and attendees designed their own mini courses using our course creator technology! We built up an appetite creating Udacious mini courses! Attendees created out-of-this-world mini courses in making a salad, making paper airplanes, wilderness training, and raising awareness around including women in clinical trials. Big thanks to everyone…
Saylor.org: Free MOOC from Sunstone Business School and the Saylor Foundation
We’ve teamed up with Sunstone Business School for their upcoming MOOC “Being an Effective New Leader“! Materials from our BUS401: Management Leadership help to round out the course, which is built, hosted, and facilitated by Sunstone. You’ll learn how to1: Influence without authority Make decisions even with incomplete data Help people do their best to [...]…
Saylor.org: Saylor.org Out and About
Our own Angelyn Pinter is presenting on “Full Curriculum OER”, an overview of the Saylor Foundation’s Common Core-aligned K12 offerings, at Open Educational Resources Day in Spokane, WA on Monday, April 22. If you are in the area, you should check her out! More information on Open Educational Resources Day is here.
Saylor.org: MMD: Is Digital Interaction Bridging Gaps?
Good morning and happy Monday! As the sun rises on another Monday morning, we look at a world the is so digitally interconnected, and yet human interaction and teamwork are still key to bridging gaps. Can the internet become the medium for this effective interaction to occur? We begin with a look at MIT and [...]…
Coursera: Congrats to the First Students to Earn Verified Certificates with Signature Track & A Chat with The Coursera Team!
We’d like to offer a big congratulations to the first group of Courserians to earn a Verified Certificate! We recently awarded more than 700 Verified Certificate for students in Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from UCSF and over 200 for each of the following courses: Introduction to Genetics and Evolution from Duke University and Microeconomics Principles from University of Illinois. Other courses with students recently earning Verified Certificates include Calculus: Single Variable from University of Pennsylvania, Algebra and Precalculus from UCI and Bioelectricity from Duke University. Congratulations from all of us to you! [Jacob Lyles and Leith Abdulla with their Verified Certificates, beaming!] Since launching Signature Track, we’ve received lots of questions from Courserians around the world. In the following Q&A, our Certificates team shares some insights about the program and students who participated— and hopefully answers some…
Coursera: Design and Create an Invention that Improves Your Life!
University of Pennsylvania’s popular Design Course was a huge hit when it was offered the first time, as it was popular with students who wanted to become designers or just learn about how to effectively design and create things from scratch. Many students in the course created every-day inventions that helped improve their lives, ranging from an automatically adjustable ice tray called “The Ice Slider” to an iPad holder called “Fixo”. The Course is being offered again and will start on April 29th (Next Monday!). We hope you to see you there! The awesome teaching staff at UPenn helped put together an illustration of select student projects to show you the diversity of cool stuff you can learn to design when you take the course. Check out the presentation below: Enroll in Design Course!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Free eBook: 129 Tips on Using Technology in Virtual and Physical Classrooms by Jennifer Neibert
There are often two reactions to the idea of virtual classrooms—utter excitement, fearful apprehension, or both. The virtual environment may intimidate instructors accustomed to physical classrooms. But it doesn’t have to be intimidating! Learn more in the latest free eBook from The eLearning Guild!
Learning Solutions Magazine: From Scattered Information to Transformational Performance Support: Where Are You? by Dr. Conrad Gottfredson
Targeted performance support enables effective performance in the workplace. It helps people do what the organization needs them to do to continuously accomplish strategic objectives. Here’s a look at a system that provides this kind of support and significant benefits. The results can be transformational!
: Empathic Education: A Call to Arms
According to ancient stories, man’s state of being is “most conducive for developing wisdom and compassion because of its particular mixture of pain and pleasure… The combination of pain and pleasure … provides the best circumstances for deep understanding and realization” of what life is all about (see Seeking the Heart of Wisdom by Goldstein & Kornfield, p.… Read the rest…
: Seven Reasons for Taking Exam Courses Online
As there are so many benefits to studying online, I decided to opt for the magical number seven so as to keep it all in perspective. This short-list can find a home in your working memory and be expanded upon whenever you are ready for more.… Read the rest…
Saylor.org: Spirit of Innovation Challenge Winners Announced
The Saylor Foundation was proud to serve as a Champion Partner for the 2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge produced by the Conrad Foundation and its partners. The Challenge “invites high school students…to develop innovative products to help solve global and local problems while supporting global sustainability.” From just twenty finalist teams, four winners emerged in [...]…
Udemy: Excel Formulas: 10 Formulas That Helped Me Keep My Job
Don’t waste any more hours in Microsoft Excel doing things manually. There are many ways to use Excel formulas to decrease the amount of time you spend in Excel and increase the accuracy of your data and your reports. Excel Formulas You Should Definitely Know: 1. SUM Formula: =SUM(5, 5) or =SUM(A1, B1) or =SUM(A1:B5) The SUM formula does exactly what you would expect. It allows you to add 2 or more numbers together. You can use cell references as... Continue reading »…
Udemy: Making Games: 7 Myths About Who
Ever wonder how video games are made or been curious about making games yourself? If so, you’re not alone. You might be surprised who’s making and playing video games nowadays! Myth 1: The Typical Gamer is a Geeky Teenage Boy The entire gaming industry has been turned on it’s head over the past decade with casual gamers overtaking traditional hard core gamers and mobile devices overtaking traditional game consoles. If you imagine the typical average gamer today as being a... Continue reading »…
Saylor.org: Last day to enroll in
Tomorrow, April 27 is the final day to enroll in the free MOOC run by Sunstone Business School in India and featuring a bunch of materials from our BUS401: Management Leadership. Head over to the “Being An Effective New Leader” course page for more information and to jump on board. Two weeks and twenty hours are all [...]…