Tips on Chasing the Truth
BE SPECIFIC AND PRECISE Your investigation should include names, dates, legal and financial information, on- the- record interviews, and documents. Without those ingredients an investigation will lack bite, as Judd’s 2015 interview with Variety proved, and can even do harm, as was the case with the factually flawed Rolling Stone story about sexual assault at…
Word + Quiz: appellation
appellation ˌa-pə-ˈlā-shən noun1. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others2. the legal name for a geographical region, village, or vineyard used by wine producers to identify and market wine_________The word appellation has appeared in 26 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including…
Promoting Far Transfer in Medical Education: An Experiment
Students in the experiment read the explanations and completed their practice cases with feedback in the way outlined by their particular experimental condition (i.e., interleaved with one context, interleaved with two contexts, blocked with one context, blocked with two contexts). Measuring Learning and TransferThe students were then tested to see how much they could remember…
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…
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…
Free March 2022 Wallpaper & Instagram quote
March 1, 2022 Our Free March 2022 wallpaper is here! Spring is almost here! Invite it to your home with colorful flowers on your screen. This month’s wallpaper is all about the colors and various flower shapes. I hope you will love it as much as I do! Each wallpaper download from March 2022 include:…
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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…
Welcoming Lukas Lewandowski as our leader for the DACH region
Anthony Tattersall, Vice President EMEA Today, we proudly welcome Lukas Lewandowski as the company’s new regional leader for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH). Based in Germany, Lukas will be responsible for overseeing Coursera’s enterprise business growth in the region, aligning our content portfolio to match local skills demand, and expanding the local team. Lukas brings…
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…
April’s industry round-ups
Opinion: Universities must create opportunities for the people coronavirus will harm mostThe Guardian, 16 AprilThis article argues that we must use the pandemic to reimagine a more equal and just society. It points out that as engines of social mobility, universities have a crucial part to play in teaching the skills that people who have…
Weekly Student News Quiz: Grammys, Elmo, California Storm
Have you been paying attention to the current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
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…
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Word of the Day: abyss
The word abyss has appeared in 120 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 10 in the Opinion essay “Why ‘Everything Everywhere’ Will Probably Win Best Picture” by Ross Douthat:And so maybe it will be fitting if the Academy — which already illustrated the multiverse’s forking paths the year it mistakenly announced…
Be Mine
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration, or describe a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.Tell us in the comments, and then read the related newsletter to learn more.Students 13 and older in the United States and Britain, and…
Get ahead with Soft Skills
This week is Learning at Work week in the UK. But making sure you have the right professional skills is important wherever you’re based. So how good are your soft skills? These aren’t the specialist skills required in your role that you might already have (for example coding or writing) these are skills that are…
Word of the Day: arbitrate
This word has appeared in 15 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Word + Quiz: protean
protean ˈprō-tē-ən , prō-ˈtē- adjective : taking on different forms _________ The word protean has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 7 in the movie review “‘3 Faces’ Review: On the Road in Iran (and Off It, Too)” by Manohla Dargis: Behnaz’s doubts about Marziyeh’s video foreshadow…
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…