News from e-Learning companies
Channel:
Udacity: Finished your final? Get an official Udacity certificate
So you've just finished your Udacity course final! Congratulations! Now, how do you tell the world?Follow these three easy steps:1. In the top right Welcome, (Student Name) menu, access the My Transcript page. 2. Click the Complete Course button next to the course. 3. Your certificate will be ready for download in a couple of minutes! NOTE: You can always return and continue taking a course if you feel like you need more time for mastery. Here at Udacity, we want you to succeed. Even after you have completed a course, all of your work from the class is saved. Therefore, you can improve the level of achievement on your certificate by re-enrolling and resubmitting your final. Course forums and all learning materials will be fully accessible to you even if you have already completed the course. Also, even if you've finished a course, you can always go back and review the material without enrolling.
Udacity: Tips for organizing your Udacity study group
Organizing a Udacity Study Group using Meetup Everywhere Last week Udacity launched our Meetup Everywhere page! If you set up a Meetup group on our Meetup Everywhere page, (www.meetup.com/udacity) you probably noticed that the Udacity Global Meetup Day was set up automatically as your group's first scheduled meetup. You should also know that in addition to worldwide meetup events, you can also set up additional meetup groups through Meetup Everywhere anytime for your local community. To do so, simply click on your community and click the "+ SCHEDULE A NEW MEETUP" text (image below). In between global events, organize study groups or social meetups and keep in touch with your Udacity community! Looking for tips on starting a local study group meetup? This week Kimberly Spillman writes about best practices for organizing and executing a great study group using Meetup.com! How to Plan a Stellar Study Group Kimberly Spillman is a Meetup study group l…
Udacity: High school offers credit for Udacity classes; Challenge expands winning teams
Udacity's Secondary School Challenge has been receiving a lot of great positive feedback from students taking courses this summer. In fact, 99% of students who responded to a recent survey said that they would like to continue taking Udacity classes, even during future summer vacations!Fueled by student momentum, the STEMx network of high schools and Ohio's eSTEM Academy in Reynoldsburg have announced that they will be enrolling 41 students in Udacity's Intro to Statistics class and 49 students in Udacity's Intro to Physics class for fall semester credit. This will allow eSTEM to tap into off-site teaching talent and help drive high school students to excel in college-level courses.With just one month left before the winners of Udacity's Secondary School Challenge are determined, we are excited to announce that we have expanded the number of winning teams from five to seven! Also, stay tuned because in the next two weeks we will announce the rankings for units completed per team,…
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: CC-OLI Information Sessions
We are holding two different types of information sessions for the Community College Open Learning Initiative (CC-OLI) research project. You are welcome to attend any and all sessions, regardless of the roles described below.… The CC-OLI Overview session is intended…
Udacity: Study together with Udacity Meetup Everywhere
Organized by Udacity students, Udacity Meetups are the best way to find other local students motivated by curiosity and a love of learning. Get together to study, hang out, ask questions, share ideas or even build the next "big thing!"Start organizing and studying together TODAY! Here are three simple steps for finding or organizing a Meetup in your area:1. Find or organize a Meetup. Check out our Meetup page, where you can view a list of Meetups that have already been organized. If you see a Meetup in your area, click the red button to show your interest.If you do not see a Meetup in your area, add your city by entering it in the location field below the map.2. Let everyone know. Post comments on the Meetup events page, Udacity's Facebook Page, and on Twitter using the hashtag #MeetUdacity. Comments posted to the Meetup events page will be sent to those who show interest.3. Confirm the event. Once all of the event details are ironed out, the organizer should confirm the event.For upda…
Coursera: Daphne's TED talk: what we're learning from online education
Daphne’s TED talk, which she delivered about a month ago in Edinburgh, was released today. In it she shares the story and motivation behind Coursera, as well as some of our basic design principles.
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: CC-OLI Pilot Evaluation
This Fall, I’ll be leading a pilot evaluation on the effectiveness of several OLI online courses in community colleges across the United States. Unlike the free online courses that institutions of higher education are rushing to produce right now, the ……
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: August Webinar Dates
Our next set of webinars in August have now been scheduled. Visit Webinars on Using OLI for the full schedule. From now on, you can bookmark that page for the most current listing of upcoming webinars. We look forward to ……
: Update on CertificatesWall.com. Template Editor released.
CertificatesWall released Template Editor. This is the tool for certificates issuers to edit certificate template settings. Using the Template Editor allows to change the template design quickly and easy. It has intuitive interface. The editor allows to edit: background image … Continue reading →…
Coursera: Introduction to Finance hits 100k enrollments!
Taught by University of Michigan’s popular professor, Gautam Kaul, Introduction to Finance hit 100,000 enrollments today. This ten-week course exposes students to the fundamentals of finance and opened on Monday, July 23, along with Fantasy and Science Fiction: the Human Mind, the Modern World, Internet History, Technology and Security, both also from University of Michigan, and Listening to World Music from the University of Pennsylvania. There’s still time to join if you haven’t already! -Anne Trumbore, Course Operations…
Udacity: Students gain skills, confidence, and career advancement through Udacity
Over the past few weeks, Udacity students have been busy applying, interviewing, and landing job offers from companies around the world. Most recently, nine Udacity students received and accepted job offers from companies that include: Spotify, Cisco, Kaplan Testing, Square, TrialPay, and IDEO.Udacity's Career Placement Program is helping students through our employer partnerships. However, students are also finding that classes alone are giving them a leg up when it comes to finding employment. Students have shared that finding jobs has been an organic result of multiple factors: an education that also links to new skills, an ability to solve challenges and build projects to showcase, and the confidence that comes from gaining new knowledge.One student, Tejas Bubane, recently wrote, I got a job! Thanks to Udacity! on his personal blog. He shared, "My knowledge of Python (CS101) and web-applications (CS253) helped me a lot. I was asked to write down codes for a few algorithms in the te…
Udacity: 2 more days: Rock-paper-scissors tournament
If you are enrolled in Perter Norvig's Design of Computer Programs (CS212), you may have noticed that there is a rock-paper-scissors tournament going on in the forums! Students in CS212 are encouraged to submit two programs using the web form developed by students in Steve Huffman's Web Applications Engineering (CS253) course by this Thursday, July 26 at 17:00 UTC.On Saturday, July 28 at 17:00 UTC there will be a live tournament hosted on Cloud 9 IDE. Stay tuned in to the forums to get the links and instructions you need to join the tournament.Good luck and have fun!
OLI. Carnegie Mellon University: Study of OLI in the Wall Street Journal
Columnist David Wessel wrote for The Wall Street Journal about technology and its role in managing costs of higher education. Wessel featured the recent Ithaka study of the OLI statistics course. “The most important single result of our study: It ……
Coursera: News recap from an exciting week
[View the story ” ” on Storify] Storified by Coursera · Fri, Jul 20 2012 19:51:55 Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New LevelEven before the expansion, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, the founders of Coursera, said it had registered 680,000 students in 43 courses w… Terrific progress getting college courses online http://b-gat.es/NCf56D. Technology is game-changing here - need more pioneers like @CourseraBill Gates The Single Most Important Experiment in Higher EducationOnline education platform Coursera wants to drag elite education into the 21st century. Now, it’s getting buy-in from the academy. As of … Excited and a little bit scared to be teaching a massive open online course on Scala with Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/progfunMartin Odersky Is Coursera the Beginning of the End for Traditional Higher Education? - ForbesIn the New York Times story today about the dramatic expansion of online higher education v…
edX: Beyond The Circuits: A Student
Reflection by Arthur Amaral Note: Arthur, an 18-year-old Brazilian student, sent us this reflection after taking 6.002x in the spring. “A course with certification from MIT? Sounds like a challenge!” That’s how it all began. My name is Arthur Amaral and I am an 18-year-old student in Brazil. Recently I finished high school and graduated as an electronics technician from a public institute of technology. I took 6.002x along with a long-term friend of mine, Ricardo, who shares the same background. With little knowledge of calculus and physics, we knew that we were kind of going in blind. I took a look at the main page before signing up; it estimated that we would end up spending around 10 hours per week with 6.002x. With a tough schedule, I wondered, “Is it worth it?” Fortunately, I did not turn this opportunity down. Instead, Ricardo and I dove head-first into this experience. From the start, I could see how much effort was put in building 6.002x.
edX: Bringing MIT Course Content to High School Students in Developing Countries: 6.002x in Mongolia
By Shilpa Agrawal In March, Tony Kim, a PhD student at Stanford University with an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, traveled from the palm trees of Palo Alto to Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia — a landlocked, developing country in central Asia. He left California with a focused goal in mind: to teach a group of motivated high school students electrical engineering through hands-on laboratory experience. As Tony was packing his bags and preparing for his three-month trip to Mongolia, he received an email out of the blue from one of his soon-to-be students, Battushig. This enterprising 15-year old student from the Sant School, where Tony would set up his experimental lab, was requesting that Tony bring along with him some TSAL6400s – an infrared LED – so that he could implement a project he had read about on the Internet. Surprised and impressed that this student had taken the time to read about the part…
Udacity: Udacity contest winners visit Silicon Valley
From July 7-10, Udacity hosted the four winners of our Intro to Computer Science contest. Below, Conner Mendenhall, one of the winners, writes about his experience visiting Udacity's offices, recording studios, and other landmarks of the Silicon Valley, including Google and the California Academy of Sciences. Intro to Computer Science winners (from left to right): Jag Talon, Conner Mendenhall, Sascha Coenen, Liang Sun "Don't worry," Peter Chapman, Assistant Instructor at Udacity, reassures me as I come out of the recording booth. "Everyone thinks they were awful the first time they record. The editors will make you look good." I hope he's right. I've just spent 35 minutes in one of the closet-sized, soundproof rooms where Udacity instructors record their video lectures, and I emerged exhausted and exasperated. My assignment was simple: record a short demonstration of DaveDaveFind, the basic search engine I built using the skills I learned in Udacity's Intro to Computer Scien…
Udacity: Student travels to Poland, takes Udacity with her
Last month Udacity student, Anne Bergsman of San Diego, CA, paid a special visit to the Udacity offices on her way to Poland. Many of you may remember that after the first run of Intro to Computer Science, Udacity hosted a block party in Palo Alto, CA. Unfortunately, Bergsman and others outside the area could not attend. At that party we gave away what became a coveted item to Bergsman, a Udacity T-shirt! Bergsman was a student in the first AI class taught by Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun. Towards the end of the class she discovered and joined CompScisters, a Facebook group for women taking free online courses. She describes the group: "Members of this group come from all over the world. Many of us have gone on to Udacity classes. We can't stop learning!" Her connection with the group inspired her to try to meet up with as many CompScisters as possible on her journey to Poland. Bergsman and her mother (bottom right) join the Bay Area CompScisters for dinner. En route to Poland,…
Coursera: 12 new universities join Coursera!
We are THRILLED to announce that 12 universities—including three international institutions—will be joining Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania in offering classes on Coursera. On Coursera, you will now be able to access world-class courses from: California Institute of Technology Duke University École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Georgia Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Princeton University Rice University Stanford University University of California, San Francisco University of Edinburgh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Toronto University of Virginia University of Washington You’ll be able to choose from more than 100 courses, from Professor Dan Ariely’s course on irrational behavior, to learning how to program in Scala (taught from the creator o…
Udacity: High School seniors take Udacity classes to benefit The School Fund
What were you doing the summer before your senior year? Studying computer science and fundraising? That's what two upcoming seniors, Russell Kaplan and Jemma Issroff, of the Dalton School in New York City are doing. Kaplan and Issroff, leaders for Team NYC, are not only participating in Udacity's Secondary School Challenge to win a trip to Silicon Valley and ride in a self-driving car, but also to fundraise for The School Fund. The School Fund provides a unique platform that connects students in the developing world with funders. Their mission is, "to help build a world where any student, no matter where they are born, has the opportunity to attend school; and any school, no matter where it is built, has the opportunity to offer students a full range of engaging learning experiences."Kaplan writes, "We joined because the democratization of education is something that we care a lot about, and that's why we chose to support The School Fund.According to The School Fund's website, stu…