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Learning Solutions Magazine: LaunchCycle Simplifies Project Management: See It at DevLearn 2012 by News Editor
Sealworks, Inc. will introduce the all-new LaunchCycle.com at The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, NV. LaunchCycle provides a simple way for teams to manage projects and tasks via an easy-to-use interface.
Learning Solutions Magazine: HT2 Launches HT2 Inc and Announces New US Offices by News Editor
HT2, the innovators in learning technology, are very proud to announce the establishment of HT2 Inc, a wholly owned US subsidiary with offices in La Jolla, CA. HT2 Inc will be on show at The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn Conference & Expo, demonstrating their breakthrough social learning product, Curatr.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Kineo Launches Jumpstart Service for Totara LMS by News Editor
Kineo US has launched Jumpstart, a bundle of services to rapidly and economically implement open-source Totara LMS for businesses. Jumpstart is delivered as an on-demand solution that enables organizations to manage all of their online and classroom learning, forums, and certifications.
Learning Solutions Magazine: Refined Data Solutions, Inc. Releases Refined Training 2.3 LMS by News Editor
Refined Data is releasing the latest version of the Refined Training platform on the newest version of Moodle. The Refined Training Hosted Solution combines the power of Adobe Connect web conferencing technology with an industry-leading learning management system (LMS).
Udacity: New Udacity Logo
As many of you have noticed, we've been rolling out new identities across our various social networks... And now we’re pleased to roll out a new logo for Udacity, along with a cleaner design for the home page! Our aesthetic continues to evolve to better represent our mission and values. Udacity is an evolution of traditional universities. Our new logo is a play on the old style serif “U” of many established universities. The right end transforms and rises, symbolizing Udacity’s forward progression and commitment to constantly innovating our students' learning experience. A streamlined sans serif font for "Udacity" reflects the simplicity we value in our user experience. Watch for more changes and improvements to the site in coming months!
Udacity: Udacity October News!
Happy October! For those who may have missed our newsletter hitting your inbox last week, we wanted to keep everyone in the loop.For starters, we opened enrollment in four new classes! These focus on contemporary skills blended with programming concepts and computer science subject knowledge. To enhance the classes, we’ve brought in leading tech companies and fantastic researchers / practitioners to teach with us. HTML5 Game Development: This class, brought to you by Google, will teach you HTML5 programming, centered around creating your own browser-based games. HTML5 is an emerging platform for building engaging and immersive web applications. Introduction to Parallel Programming: In this class, brought to you by NVIDIA, you will break out of your linear approach to programming and learn how to harness the power of GPUs and parallel thinking to create lightning-fast programs. Interactive Rendering: What is it about the surface of an apple that makes it look so different fr…
Udacity: Andreesen Horowitz's Peter Levine: Software Eats Education - An Audacious Undertaking
We're pleased to have Peter Levine join our board and the folks at Andreesen Horowitz supporting our mission to bring high quality, higher education to the world. To kick things off, Peter wrote about our (A)Udacious goals and his excitement to change the world with us!Software Eats Education: An Audacious Undertaking…
Khan Academy: New episodes in Prime Adventures!
Instructor Brit Cruise has created two new videos and computer science programs as part of his Prime Adventures series, where he explores deeper properties of prime numbers through building algorithms that perform prime factorization and primality tests. Level 4: Sieve of Eratosthenes Try out the CS program that goes with “Level 4.” Level 5: Primality test using the Sieve of Eratosthenes Try out the CS program that goes with “Level 5.”…
Khan Academy: New category of exercises: Linear Algebra!
Software developer Stephanie Chang has just launched the very first Khan Academy exercises in Linear Algebra, the college-level topic involving vectors and matrices: Matrix dimensions Matrix addition and subtraction Scalar matrix multiplication Defined and undefined matrix operations Multiplying a matrix by a vector Multiplying a matrix by a matrix…
Khan Academy: The Heart
Our Medical Fellow, Dr. Rishi Desai, has created three new video series on how the heart operates. Meet the heart! More new videos about The Heart: Flow through the Heart Lub Dub Layers of the Heart Arteries vs. Veins - What’s the difference? What is blood pressure? Learn how a stethoscope can help determine blood pressure Circulatory System and the Heart Also, learn about how nerves regulate your heart’s activity: Getting a New Heart More new videos about Nerve Regulation of the Heart: Changing the AV Node Delay - Chronotropic Effect Changing the Heart Rate - Chronotropic Effect Increasing Ventricular Contractility - Inotropic Effect Autonomic Nervous System Effects on the Heart And learn about heart muscles and what happens when they contract: Three Types of Muscle More new videos about Heart Muscle Contraction: Heart Cells Up Close! Myosin and Actin Tropomyosin and troponin and their role in regulating muscle contraction Calcium Puts Myosin to Work…
Udacity: Harvard Business Review: It's Time to Rethink US Education System
HBR and Tammy Erikson blogs about the US education system and how the next generation of students coming through the education system are demanding changes in how education and learning is delivered. It articulates many of points we intuitively know about learning and how it's evolving. Good food for thought on what a modern education system could look and feel like. What do you think?HBR: It's Time to Rethink US Education System…
Khan Academy: Khan Academy in Idaho
In early October, the School Implementations team headed to Boise, Idaho to deliver a workshop to 250 teachers. The 2-day teacher workshop was generously sponsored by the J.A & Kathryn Albertson Foundation. See what the teachers had to say during the second day of the workshop:The workshop carried an enthusiastic energy throughout both days as teachers discussed their visions of student-centered, self-paced classrooms, learned how to navigate the various data reports and features of our site, and created tactical plans tailored for their own classrooms. Many teachers started using Khan Academy with their students the very next school day, and we saw the number of site visits more than double in the state of Idaho after the workshop!We were honored to work with such a fantastic group of teachers and a foundation that offered every support imaginable. Soon we’ll be visiting Boston with the Lynch Foundation and Miami with the Morgridge Family Foundation.
Khan Academy: Discussion posts get fancy!
Intern Drew Bent has added the ability to format discussion posts with bold, italics, and monospaced text (for software code snippets). You can apply these snazzy formatting features to your questions, answers, feedback, and even comments.
Udemy: The Udemy Learning Feed is here!
We’re very excited to unveil the Udemy Learning Feed! Quite a few of you have been asking us to add features that build the Udemy community and admittedly we know we could do more for you. So we created the learning feed — a place for you to communicate with each other and spread the power of learning. We hope the learning feed becomes your go-to learning destination. Just like the activity feed on Facebook, all your activity and the... Continue reading »…
Coursera: Changes to the ToS for Minnesota students
There’s been a lot of news over the past few days regarding an addition we made to our Terms of Service (ToS) for Minnesota citizens in August. Last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the modification to our ToS. It was picked up by Slate, and from there it quickly went viral. Over the past few days, we’ve been working closely with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, and have now removed the message from our ToS. In light of the recent events, we’d like to share some background and insight about what happened: In July, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education brought our attention to Minnesota Statutes 136A.61 to 136A.71, which state that a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so. Some states, like Minnesota, have laws to regulate higher education dissemination, mainly in the interest of protecting their citizens from sub-par e…
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: Candace Thille at Asia Faculty Summit 2012
OLI Director Candace Thille will be attending Asia Faculty Summit 2012, organized by Microsoft Research Asia in partnership with Nankai University and Tianjin University, in Tianjin, China, October 26-27, 2012. Ms. Thille will participate in a panel discussion, The Edu-Tech ……
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: OLI at Open Education 2012
Bill Jerome and Norman Bier presented at this year’s Open Education conference in Vancouver, BC on October 17. The presentation, Learning Data Visualization, covers some history of data collection at OLI, current tools that use this data to support instructors ……
Udemy: Does Twitter really work for course promotion?
Let’s get real for a second—Twitter is a tricky tool when it comes to driving more students to enroll into your courses. The reality is you’re competing with thousands of other people and their messages. The chances of potential students seeing your updates in their ever flowing stream of tweets is small. There are two ways to address this: Make every interaction someone has with your Twitter profile count Schedule tweets to go out more frequently. Make every interaction someone... Continue reading »…
Udacity: Four New Classes!
Technologies change quickly. While savvy companies are quick to adapt to these changes, universities are sometimes slower to react. This discrepancy can lead to a growing gap between the skills graduates have and the skills employers need. So how do you figure out exactly what skills employers are looking for? Our thinking: work with industry leaders to teach those skills!And that’s what we’re doing. We are working with leading academic researchers and collaborating with Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Autodesk, Cadence, and Wolfram to teach knowledge and skills that students will be able to put to use immediately, either in personal projects or as an employee at one of the many companies where these skills are sought after.The classes that are opening for enrollment include: HTML5 Game Development with Colt McAnlis and Peter Lubbers Introduction to Parallel Programming with John Owens and David Luebke Interactive Rendering with Eric Haines Functional Hardware Verificatio…
Udacity: Udacity's How to Build a Startup: Lean LaunchPad course going Spanish!
Thanks very much to our students and their grassroots effort to translate our courses into different languages. We're looking into providing tools to better support your efforts on this front: stay tuned. In the interim, we're also excited to have gotten formal support from Colombia's Ministry of IT and Innovation. They will be translating Steve Blank's entire Lean LaunchPad course into Spanish, so look for a version with Spanish audio coming soon!