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Udemy: Now Available! How to Create an Online Course Guidebook
Check out our new, free guide to creating a course on Udemy. A great weekend read for those budding online instructors out there! This is a step-by-step guidebook to help you get a jump on your course. Creating a Course- Getting Started Guidelines…
Coursera: A Message from Berklee College of Music
Editor’s Notes: The Boston incidents this week have deeply affected many individuals, families and communities. Berklee College of Music’s physical office building was at the site of the events on Monday. Below is a message from the Berklee Online team to students enrolled in Introduction to Guitar or Introduction to Improvisation, as there are changes to course start dates. The entire Coursera staff and community send our deepest support and thoughts. Dear Courserians, As many of you have heard, the City of Boston has been dealing with a tragedy this past week as a result of the Boston Marathon Bombing incident. The events on Monday occurred one block from the Berklee Online offices. As a result of the investigation, authorities are restricting access to all buildings within a multi-block radius of the crime scene. Unfortunately, this means that we have not been able to access the files and resources we need…
Saylor.org: We Love Resources: the Digital Public Library of America
Perhaps you’ve heard of WorldCat, which is, in brief, “the world’s largest network of library content and services” — but to folks like you and me, that means that we can search across many different library collections for a particular holding. It’s fun, it’s convenient, and it helped Yours Truly solve an Advanced Power Searching with [...]…
: Battle of the Sexes for Tomorrow
The End of MenAccording to Hanna Rosin, a correspondent for The Atlantic, “women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history” in the year 2010. Will this continue or will men catch up? Hanna Rosin, was inspired to write a book called The End of Men as a result of her findings.… Read the rest…
Coursera: Coursera's First Birthday!
Coursera turns 1! As our birthday wish, we want you to share your favorite course recommendation with the world through pictures. We hope to make a 1st birthday Courserians mural at Coursera HQ with your pictures! To Participate: 1. Go to: http://bit.ly/15nlBXC 2. Print and cut out shape 3. Write in your favorite course 4. Take a picture of yourself (smile, be silly!) 5. Upload it to your FB/Twitter/G+ and tag @Coursera and #courserabirthday! [the picture here is an example of what you can submit!] We’ll take it and print these pictures into a mural and share the final product with you! Thank you for being an important part of this vibrant learning community of 3.2 million people all on a quest to create an ecosystem where education is a human right and learning has no limits!
Saylor.org: Snapshot: Jen Shoop, Bookworm/Food Connoisseur
Today, in our newest addition to our Staff Snapshots, we catch-up with our Content Development Director, Jen Shoop! Good afternoon, Jen. Hello! So let’s begin; please tell us little bit about yourself. I am a rare D.C. native — you don’t find too many of those! I grew up in a beautiful stone house off [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Research for Practitioners: When It's Not a Knowledge Problem by Julie Dirksen
As an instructional designer, how do you handle situations where there’s not a knowledge problem? Where people know what to do, but just don’t do it? Here’s a review of a recent research study on the influence of visceral experience on behavior. It will suggest a way that you may want to try when dealing with these cases.
Saylor.org: Ninja Skills: Why the Unit Outline Matters.
If you don’t know what a “unit outline” is in the context of our course, I can forgive you. It’s not the first thing you might notice when you go to a course. It’s almost certainly not even in the top ten. Suffice it to say, it’s what I promised to talk about last week, [...]…
Udemy: Udemy Expands to Organizations with a Powerful new Training Platform
Udemy is used by 600,000 people in over 200 countries around the world. Many of these people use Udemy purely for personal reasons — Blogger Training or Brew Your own Beer, anyone? But many people also use Udemy to train themselves and gain skills needed to move ahead in life, in their jobs, or even to get jobs. With 7,000 courses in the Udemy course library, there are so many courses to help our students gain the relevant knowledge to apply... Continue reading »…
: Say goodbye to audio/video delays ~ WizIQ needs 32% less bandwidth now
“bandwidth is such an issue. it always lets us down.” ~ a sad teacher I am an employee turned user of WizIQ Virtual Classroom and I face similar issues like you do. Issues related to audio/video streaming which happen to be the essence of online education.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: The Guerilla Technologist Lives On! by Dusti Annan-Coultas
One of the most difficult accountabilities in a professional’s job description is managing change. There are few guidelines and no paradigm easily abbreviated into a set of initials. In fact, the professional must climb completely out of the familiar box that may be his or her job description and venture into very unfamiliar territory. Fortunately, one who has been there left a map.
Udacity: "Udacious" Is International for "Awesome"
Merci! Gracias! Danke! Arigato! Shokran! Xie xie! Sukria! Toda! Gazie! Obrigado! Spasibo! Udacians, you’ve done it again. You’ve totally blown us away with your strong support of our mission to broaden access to education. Since our first post thanking you for translating our courses into over 63 languages, you’ve unleashed your linguistic prowess and come out in full force to achieve some remarkable feats of translation. Since we first encouraged you to join Amara to start translating, we’ve seen a jump in folks registering to translate - we’ve welcomed 46 new translators to the Udacity team and now have 707 translators (and counting)! That’s an 11% increase in translators in less than one month - impressive, guys! We’ve also seen a whopping 18% increase in translations across the site. This means that 1,135 more lessons are available in new languages for non-English-speaking students. If you’re interested in joining us,…
Saylor.org: A MOOC Mini Primer
If you want a good, brief primer on xMOOCs, business models for online education, California higher ed politics, open educational resources, and free/open textbooks — all on one page — you could do worse than Abby Clobridge’s “The Wild West of MOOCs“. She mentions the Saylor Foundation…ever heard of ‘em?
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The world needs managers. You don’t have to like it, but there it is. Or maybe we should re-phrase: the world needs good managers. Principled managers. How do we get there? Some folks seem born for the job: cool, calm, collected; conscientious in both praise and criticism. Most others need a bit of help before they’re ready [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Become a Volunteer: Change the World One Course at a Time by Jennifer Neibert
Whether you’re just getting started in eLearning or you’re an experienced practitioner looking for ways to continue building your portfolio, consider volunteering your skills and expertise to a nonprofit organization working to change the world. The opportunity to give back is incredibly rewarding, so step up and find an organization where you can donate your time and talents.
Saylor.org: MMD: Making Education OPEN to the World
Good Morning and Happy Monday! The word of the week is “OPEN.” We begin today with the Former U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley. Riley hopes to reduce costs for the states by creating a “plan of interstate reciprocity.” This could dismantle barriers (often caused by various regulations) and open the road to streamlined [...]…
Udacity: Sebastian Thrun: Expanding College Credit Pilot this Summer!
Really exciting news today: We’re extending our groundbreaking partnership with San Jose State University by offering for-credit summer classes! We and SJSU continue to be committed to broadening access to effective and engaging higher learning through the use of revolutionary educational technology. We’ve seen great promise from our initial pilot (85% retention going into midterms!) and we’re incorporating key learnings this summer to enhance the overall course experience and provide increased support for students. For this summer session, classes continue to be just $150 -- that’s 10% of what most universities here in the U.S. cost -- and we’re adding really cool classes too! For just $150, and once you complete the course, you’ll get transferable college credit (to the CSU system and most major U.S. universities): Intro to Programming (newly added) Intro to Psychology (newly added) Elementary Statistics College Algebra Entry-level Math In a…
: See It to Believe It: Better and More Secure Video Streaming on WizIQ
Do you know that a great screen is not the only thing that counts when it comes to your viewing experience? Video quality matters a lot when you want to make your online experience life-like. As you turn more to technology to share information and connect with your students, you want the virtual experience to be as real as possible without compromising your privacy or intellectual property.… Read the rest…
Learning Solutions Magazine: When Windows 8 Arrives, Will You Be Ready? by Bill Rosenthal
Windows 8 is making slow but sure progress into the enterprise and personal computing space. Windows 8 has a steep learning curve, and “quick-and-dirty” approaches to training will not succeed. Here is some information you will want to consider as you make your contingency plans for the day when your organization decides to adopt Windows 8.
: 10 Ways To Use Poetry for English Language Teaching Online
This is in celebration of National Poetry Month and springtime. My daffodil image is in honour of one of the first poems I learnt as a child called ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud‘. We are, perhaps, less lonely here in our cyber-cloud online, which just serves to enhance our ability to appreciate poetry in the modern age.… Read the rest…