Top 48 Learning Systems for 2025 Rankings
There is often a misnomer that being a learning system must mean only an LMS. The reality is quite different. The term Learning Systems is an umbrella term for numerous different types of systems that offer online learning/training, whether for employees, customers/partners/distributors/B2B or direct B2C, a combination of the two, associations, and so forth. I…
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…
Making Connections: 53 Teenagers Suggest Creative Ways to Link School Curriculum...
Anieya Archuleta-Valdez, a student from Utah, connects the Op-Doc above with Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” For the runners-up, we are publishing short excerpts from their essays — enough, we hope, to give readers an understanding of why and how the writer connected the two texts. Anieya Archuleta-Valdez, Nuames High School, Layton, Utah: “Night” by Elie Wiesel…
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…
Word + Quiz: yurt
Note: Our Sixth Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge is underway. It will run until Feb. 18. yurt ˈyu̇rt, ˈyərt noun : a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of Central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing _________ The word yurt…
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Mardi Gras
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.What do you know about Mardi Gras and how it is celebrated in New Orleans? How do you imagine the pandemic has affected it this year?If you aren’t familiar with Mardi Gras, here is a description:Since the…
How Engineers Prepare Websites for Black Friday & Cyber Monday
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and with it, two of the biggest shopping holidays of the year — Black Friday and its virtual counterpart, Cyber Monday. Last Cyber Monday was the most successful by far, with over $10 billion spent worldwide as millions of people flocked online to take advantage of the epic deals…
Lesson of the Day: ‘New York City’s First Skateboarding Superstar’
Please note: Each current events “Lesson of the Day” (renamed from our old “Article of the Day” feature) aims to be usable in a single class period. Lesson Overview Featured Article: “New York City’s First Skateboarding Superstar” We chose this article, from The New York Times Magazine, because sports broadly, and skateboarding, specifically, are rarely…
Interleaving: A Classroom Experiment
The learning phase took place over 9 weeks in the classroom. During this time, the students received their normal lessons and assignments. There were four different types of problems that were a part of the experiment, and the students’ assignments were constructed so that across the nine weeks they saw 12 different problems of each…
Announcing Coursera’s 2025 Customer Awards for Outstanding Achievement
Discover the winners of Coursera’s 2025 Customer Awards, celebrating organizations driving innovation and learning excellence worldwide. Photo by Kevin Seifert Thirteen years ago, Coursera began with a simple yet revolutionary idea: that transformative education should be accessible at scale. Today, as we mark our 13th year, that idea has evolved into a global reality—one where…
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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…
Learning With: ‘“Breaches Everywhere”: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions...
Before reading the article: Look at the photos that accompany today’s article. What do they tell you about how levee systems are supposed to work — and what happens when they fail? Do you have any personal experience with a body of water flooding the nearby land? If so, what happened? Do you know if…
How Much Does A Python Developer Make?
If you’re interested in a job as a Python Developer, you have an exciting career ahead of you. Python Developers build new technologies that hundreds and thousands of people use at work and in their personal lives.Since Python is a flexible, versatile programming language, it’s used in virtually every industry and scientific field you can…
Do You Talk to Your Family About the Cost of College?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Do you plan to go to college? Do you have a sense of how much one year of college might cost? If not, take a moment to look up the cost of tuition, room and board and…
Fashion Predictions
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Fashion designers are looking into the post-pandemic future and predicting what we’ll want to wear when we no longer have to spend most of our time at home.Before you read the related article, make your own predictions.…
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…