Feedback emPower Tools: How to Make Your Feedback Go Further
For today’s blog post, I interviewed Dr Rob Nash who together with Prof Naomi Winstone and Dr Kieran Balloo created the website Feedback emPower Tools. Feedback emPower Tools sets out to help learners engage and process feedback they receive. For learners it can be challenging to engage with feedback, perhaps because they either do not…
Did I Need to Know What Gender My Nonbinary Interviewees Were...
Lisa Reff, a Maryland lawyer who had urged her state representative to sponsor the “Gender X” legislation, said she had struggled with her teenager’s request until another parent told her it was standard for the verb to match the pronoun. “‘I was saying ‘they is,’” Ms. Reff explained. “Saying ‘they are’ is so much easier.”…
Coursera partners with IFC and the European Commission to publish global...
New study uncovers challenges, best practices, and promise of online learning to create more opportunity for women and underserved populations in the post-pandemic economy By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera In partnership with IFC and the European Commission, I am pleased to announce our global study on women and online learning in emerging markets.…
Audiobooks
Do you listen to audiobooks? Is it a better (or worse) experience than reading a physical book? Why do you prefer one option over the other? What are some of your favorite audiobooks? Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to find some suggestions for audiobooks.Want more Picture Prompts? Find them all…
Should Dogs Be Allowed Inside Restaurants and Stores?
Do you ever see people bring dogs inside restaurants, stores or other businesses where you live? If you do, what is your reaction? Are you excited? Indifferent? Annoyed?Do you think pet owners should be allowed to bring their animals inside public spaces and businesses? Why or why not? If not, do you think there any…
Word of the Day: holistic
This word has appeared in 176 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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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…
How Online Education Is Increasing Gender Diversity in STEM
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Word of the Day: fanfare
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