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…
Top 10 Resume Do’s and Don’ts
You’ve been job hunting for a while. You’ve sent out hundreds of resumes but you’ve only received a handful of callbacks from the companies you applied to. You have finally found your dream position – with all the perks. It’s the one you’ve been waiting for, and you know you have one shot to get…
Word of the Day: pigeonhole
The word pigeonhole has appeared in 15 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 18 in “Hollywood Actors Are Leaping Into Video Games” by Just Lunning:A stream of actors who built their careers in Hollywood are making their digital presence felt in video games, a once stigmatized medium that is increasingly seen…
Behind the Build: AI Learning Assistant
Talking through your coding questions or roadblocks is one of the best ways to overcome them. And while a quick chat with your teammate or a rubber duck typically does the trick, there’s a faster and more interactive way to make progress and work through problems as you learn: the AI Learning Assistant. We’ve combined…
What Was the Best Day of Your Year?
What were your personal, social or academic highlights this year? When did you feel your best? What did you achieve? What about the smaller moments — perhaps a video call with a friend, a meal you prepared for a parent or a long walk alone? Are those smaller moments the ones you remember as the…
Film Club: ‘116 Cameras’
“Three, two, one … Go ahead. O.K.” My name is Eva Schloss. Would you like to ask me some questions about my life? “Why don’t you ask me a question about Auschwitz?” Why don’t you ask me a question about Auschwitz? Everybody said, Never again, Auschwitz. We have learned our lesson.” But it looked bad…
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A high-income skill for creatives: user experience
So far in our high-income skills series, we’ve explored how you can use data analysis to demonstrate your impact and project management to enhance your workflow. Both of these skill sets tend to involve internal workflows. This week, we’re shifting to an external focus: the user experience. User experience (UX) has to do with understanding the way a person (the user) interacts…
Summer Reading Contest, Week 6: What Got Your Attention in The...
Welcome to Week Six of our 13th Annual Summer Reading Contest.This contest is open to students 11-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate, submit a response by 9 a.m. Eastern on July 22 that answers the questions “What got your attention in The New York Times this week? Why?”If you are 13 or older…
Are You a Fan of Movie Remakes?
Have you seen any movies lately? When you choose what to watch, are you more likely to go for something new and original, or rather a remake of an old favorite?Have you seen any of the remakes that have hit the big screen recently, like “Mean Girls” or “The Color Purple”? Or “Wonka,” the musical…
What is RAM?
RAM is a computer's short-term memory. It's a key part of a computer's performance, affecting your ability to game, surf the web, stream, and more. Read on to learn more about RAM, why it's important, and how much you need.What does RAM mean?RAM stands for random access memory. Every computing device, including your smartphone and…
Learning System Mkt. Forecasts
I’d love to tell you that the forecasts below are all happy stardust and puppies, but the fact is, well they are not. A few have the potential to switch from a negative to positive, others well, it comes down to a variety of variables, now that we are all in this together (the Pandemic). …
On-Demand Webinar: Using the Science Times in STEM Classrooms
In this 55-minute webinar, recorded live in Oct. 2017, we show you how to use Times reporting and multimedia in STEM classrooms.From following the path of the eclipse to debating medical ethics to demonstrating physics principles with the movement of ants, the Times reporters James Gorman and Nicholas St. Fleur explain how they research and…
Past Stories
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…
Q2 Coursera for Business Quarterly Product Release
By Shwetabh Mittal, Senior Director, Product Management The world has changed a great deal since I last posted. I hope all readers of this blog are well and safe during these unprecedented times. We continue to enhance the Coursera platform in response to data and your feedback, as we strive to create and deliver the…
Abasido Umoh: an Alison Contract Publisher based in Nigeria
Experts from all over the world apply to publish courses with Alison. In order to meet this high level of demand, Alison employs Contract Publishers who transform expertise and knowledge into high quality courses. Last year, Alison invited 100 Graduates worldwide to train to become Contract Publishers. Abasido is one of our Alison Graduates who went…
Discover how Melaine is driving education efforts in West Africa using...
We’d like to introduce you to Melaine Nyuyfoni Nsaikila. In the story he shares below, Melaine describes how learning on Coursera helped give him an edge in his job search and the tools to continue to make a difference in policy and development. With persistence and determination, he built the technical skills that he now…
How to Improve Leadership Skills in an Organisation
Running a business is not easy. It requires time, energy, a dedicated team to drive and achieve objectives, and a leader to show the way. Leadership is a valuable trait that lies at the core of every successful project, event, and corporation. But great leaders are sometimes difficult to come by. This is because leaders…
Religious Ceremonies
Tens of millions of Hindus are convening this week in what is expected to be the world’s largest human gathering. About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe will bathe in and around the Ganges River over the next six weeks for the Maha Kumbh Mela, a religious festival that happens every 12 years…