April Joyner, inc.com Inc. magazine Apr 2, 2013 What if anyone could go take to the Web to learn a job-getting new skill, at $20 a pop? Michael Karnjanaprakorn believes that education and learning are two different things. And when it comes to… Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap http://flip.it/odFq6 http://flip.it/my0Ik Skillshare Takes On the … Continue reading Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls - NYTimes.com. New Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs and startup companies such as Udacity and Udemy are turning conventional education on its head. Udacity, a startup which is supported by Charles River Ventures, was created by former professors at Stanford who taught one AI course online … Continue reading Udacity, Udemy: MOOCs disrupt conventional science and tech talent acquisition and education
Coursera Plans to Announce University Partners for Online Classes - NYTimes.com. Two more Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller have broken off to create a new online learning startup called Coursera with financial backing from two of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. The startup will … Continue reading Coursera partners with universities to create new science, humanities and engineering programs
Inspired by Khan Academy a new Stanford e-learning course on AI has triggered a huge volume of interest (4 times the size of the entire student body!) Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups. Related articles Artificial Intelligence (unrealengine.com) Using Artificial Intelligence (And A Little Scolding) To Reduce Energy Use (fastcoexist.com) Artificial intelligence (cyberleague.wordpress.com) … Continue reading Stanford artificial intelligence e-learning course draws four times the entire student body
An excellent overview of the potential of online video to re-invent education by hedge fund analyst and creator Salman Khan. Salman Khan: Lets use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com. Related articles Let's use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com (ted.com) An Olympic phenom gives out gold, silver … Continue reading Using video to re-invent education (TEDTalks)
NYIT - School of Engineering and Computing Sciences. Related articles Udacity Has More Computer Science (i-programmer.info) The state of IT education (computerworld.co.nz) Engineering Students Qualify For NetApp Jobs (kake.com) NYIT: renewable energy needed 'off the grid' (watchingworldenergy.com) Proctored exam for Intro to Computer Science now available (udacity.com) Computer Science Course … Continue reading NYIT School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Knowledge Systems Institute :: Graduate School of Computer Science. Bioinformatics degrees Related articles Proctored exam for Intro to Computer Science now available (udacity.com) The state of IT education (computerworld.co.nz) Making Magic With Computer Science and Art (theepochtimes.com) Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science (ejohn.org) Developers put to the test in Game of Codes (computerworld.co.nz) Engineering … Continue reading Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School of Computer Science Bioinformatics
MIT OpenCourseWare | Anthropology | 21A.215 Medical Anthropology, Fall 2004 | Readings. Related articles Free Online Course Materials | Resource Home | MIT OpenCourseWare (anthonyvenable110.wordpress.com) Participate in the Extreme and Informal Learning Survey (saylor.org) New Year's Resolution: MIT OpenCourseWare (ritholtz.com) Introduction to Psychology now available in MIT OpenCourseWare's innovative OCW Scholar format (web.mit.edu) Invtitation … Continue reading MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.215 Medical Anthropology
University of Michigan - Dearborn: College of Engineering & Computer Science. Related articles Does a computer science degree matter anymore? (theneteconomy.wordpress.com) The state of IT education (computerworld.co.nz) Google execs on tour (fijitimes.com) Computer Science @ Khan Academy (adafruit.com) Making Magic With Computer Science and Art (theepochtimes.com) Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education … Continue reading University of Michigan College of Engineering & Computer Science
Recent articles have pointed to the shift in the view of computer science from "creating tools for scientists" to actually creating the science itself. It's about oceans, stars, cancer cells, proteins and networks of friends. Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University , says his discipline is on the way to becoming "the … Continue reading e-Science: Computers as Science
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