Announcing new fee structure to support growth of online degrees
New structure supports universities pursuing greater scale and impact with online degrees By Coursera Today, we’re announcing a new fee structure to support universities planning to scale online degree offerings. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Colorado Boulder are among the first to embrace the new structure. We’ve served universities with…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Ask a Data Engineer: Warby Parker Edition 👓
Codecademy’s very own Nick Duckwiler (left) and Ryan Tuck from Warby Parker (right) in our office. (📷: Mitch Boyer) Last month, Codecademy and Warby Parker came together to work on a special Learn SQL from Scratch Capstone Project. It was during this time when I met Ryan Tuck, a Data Engineer at Warby, who played…
Dining Out
Do you go out to eat often? Do you, or does anyone you know, work in food services? What have you noticed about how the restaurant experience has changed thanks to the pandemic? Are any of the changes you’ve noticed worth keeping once it ends, in your opinion?For instance, do you hope we continue to…
The Best Travel Destinations for Your 2019
Jan 20, 2019 By Philip S. Travel: there really is nothing like it. Just around the corner, a few hours in a car or a plane, something new and exciting is waiting to be discovered. Everyone has their own reason for travelling, whether it’s experiencing a new culture, taking in some beautiful views, or just…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Must Read
Word of the Day: sibilant
This word has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Do You Love a Good Tear-Jerker?
When was the last time you cried during a movie? Do you wish more films were made to bring their audiences to tears?
Morning Moods
Do you tend to wake up on the “wrong side of the bed” or “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed”? Do mornings invite optimism and inspiration, or provoke repeated hits of the snooze button and caffeine swigging? How do you handle friends or family members who have opposite morning dispositions?Tell us in the comments, then read the related…
Clouds
What do you think this image is saying? How does it relate to or comment on society or current events? Can you relate to it personally? What is your opinion of its message?Tell us in the comments, then read the related Opinion essay to learn more.Want more Picture Prompts? Find them all in this column.Students…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Treasure Washes Up on Venezuela’s Shore, Bringing...
Warm UpThe featured article tells the story of the village of Guaca, in Venezuela. To situate yourself in this place, look closely at one of the images from the featured article, such as the photo below.As you look at the image you selected, respond to these questions from our What’s Going On In This Picture?…
Past Stories
How a Self-Taught Engineer Landed a New Job in Tech
Alina is a self-taught engineer from Berlin, Germany who turned to Coursera to gain the skills and knowledge she needed to break into the tech field. Real-life projects for hands-on practice When I started on this self-teaching road, there were many online resources to choose from but I stopped at Coursera because unlike other platforms,…
What Are Your Thoughts About a Year of War in Israel,...
A year into this devastating war, what are you feeling and thinking? How have your feelings changed over the course of the year?
Learning With: ‘Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’’
Now, read the article, “Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’,” and answer the following questions: 1. What is the Impossible Whopper? What makes it so impossible? How does it “validate” a “young industry that is looking to mimic and replace meat with plant-based alternatives?” 2. What is Impossible Foods? Who started the company and why? 3.…
Spotlight on Computer Science Career Options
If you’re looking for a career in a high-growth field, you can’t do much better than computer science. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), computer and information technology sector employment is projected to grow by 13% through 2026 with more than 550,000 new jobs added. That’s significantly faster than the rest of the…
Looking for Graphs to Use in the Classroom? Here Are 34
Our third year of “What’s Going On in This Graph?”, our weekly collaboration with the American Statistical Association, begins in September. To help you prepare, we have amassed an archive with 34 graphs on an array of topics, including baseball, popular music, climate change and military budgets. Take a look to see how thousands of…
1 on 1 with Engineering Leaders: CircleCI VP of Product Engineering...
Codecademy for Business and our friends at Code Climate have been meeting with engineering leaders to talk about their career journeys, leadership tactics, and their advice for the next generation of engineers in an interview series, 1 on 1 with Engineering Leaders.We’ve had conversations with Tara Ellis of Netflix, Brooks Swinnerton of GitHub, and Gergely…