When Do Holiday Decorations Go From Festive to Excessive?
Do you and your family decorate for Christmas, Hanukkah, Halloween or other holidays? Do people in your neighborhood?Is there a house where you live that goes all out for the holidays? Do you find the decorations beautiful and festive — or ridiculous and over the top?In “‘Are You Going to Be the One to Get…
Coursera and Burning Glass Institute Release 2023 Skills Compass Report to...
By Trena Minudri, Coursera Chief Learning Officer Ongoing economic instability and corporate cost cutting are causing L&D budgets to shrink and every remaining dollar spent is being scrutinized. In 2022, 54% of HR leaders agreed that leadership often sees L&D as a cost and not as an investment. Learning leaders are under more pressure than…
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…
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…
How Much Do You Know About Qatar?
Can you find Qatar on a map? What else do you know about this Middle Eastern nation with a population of almost 3 million people?
Lessons for 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates, From a Soon-to-Be First-Time Voter
This essay, by Nora Fellas, who is now 17 but was 16 when she wrote it, is one of the Top 12 winners of our Sixth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 10,509 entries. We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up this week, and you can find them here…
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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…
THE POWER OF MUSIC
Music is vocal or instrumental sound (or both) blended in such a way as to achieve beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion, according to the Oxford dictionary.“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”- Robert G. Ingersoll“Music is an explosive…
The Ultimate Guide to Building Job Market Skills through Online Learning
Three out of four companies provide online learning opportunities for their employees. This just highlights the importance of continuous skill development in the corporate world. With economic shifts, tech advancements, and changing workforce dynamics, the job market continues to change. For one, remote work is more common than ever after the COVID-19 pandemic. Fifty-eight percent…
‘Cultural Appropriation’ Is Critical to Human Progress
This essay, by Maggie Strauss, age 17, is one of the Top 12 winners of our Sixth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 10,509 entries. We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up this week, and you can find them here as they post. Excerpts from some will also be…
The Future of Our Workplace: Remote, On Campus, and Blended Options...
By Rich Jacquet, Chief People Officer At Coursera, we believe location shouldn’t limit access to world-class learning, and we’re bringing this mindset to the way we evolve our workplace. Today we announced that employees can continue to work remotely until January 1, 2022, when we anticipate bringing our offices back to full service. Giving all…
Word + Quiz: huckster
huckster ˈhək-stər noun and verbnoun: a seller of shoddy goodsnoun: a person who writes advertisementsverb: sell or offer for sale from place to placeverb: wrangle or haggle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)_________The word huckster has appeared in 16 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 2 in…
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7 tips for tech job searching
Congratulations on getting started in your new career as a developer! We know it was a hard decision, but it's going to pay off in the long run. And speaking of paying off, how exactly should you start searching for that tech job to jump-start your new career?We've put together seven useful tips to help…
Word of the Day: circumlocution
The word circumlocution has appeared in two articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 15 in the Opinion essay “Making the SAT and ACT Optional Is the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” by John McWhorter:When we expect less of people, it’s often because we think less of them: In 1974, the linguistic…
Q&A with Shira Lee Katz, Head of Content Strategy at Coursera
1. Tell us about yourself and your experience. After 20 years of work (and play) in a variety of fields—content strategy, learning, kids, and more—one thing I can say is that anywhere, anytime learning is powerful. “Anywhere, anytime learning” is the notion that learning isn’t confined to the four walls of a classroom. Rather, it…
Cookie Mania
What is something everyone else loves that you think is overrated? Conversely, what do you think is the absolute best, but most other people just don’t agree?
Film Club: ‘The Life of Jerry Givens, a State Executioner Turned...
[MUSIC PLAYING] Leviticus — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth I will repay, an often-quoted scripture that people use to justify the death penalty. But we never ask ourselves, what is the damage that’s being done to a person when they execute, when they kill another human being? Jerry was a…
What Misconceptions Do People Have About Where You Live?
When you tell people where you’re from, how do they react? Do you think their view of the place is accurate? Or do they have it all wrong?In “‘Are You OK?’ San Francisco Residents Say They Most Certainly Are.” Heather Knight writes about the California city’s foundering public image, and what the people who live…