Is True Crime As a Form of Entertainment Ethical?
True crime entertainment seems to be everywhere these days. Are you a fan? Do you listen to podcasts, read books, or watch documentaries, TV shows and movies that tell the stories of real-life victims and perpetrators?If so, have you ever wrestled with whether your consumption of this content is ethical? In “My Sister Was Murdered…
What Students Are Saying About Parental Surveillance, Living Without Wi-Fi and...
It’s OK for parents to track their children.… parents should track their children, but they shouldn’t check the app every minute to see where their child is. Building trust is important in this situation, kids need to trust their parents enough to be able to tell them what is going on. Parents need to trust…
Coursera’s Commitment to Learning: How We Support Skill Development
By Kara Behnke and Alexandra Urban, Teaching & Learning Team We at Coursera care deeply about helping learners everywhere gain the skills needed to reach their goals. Whether an open course, a guided project, or an entire Bachelor’s or Master’s degree program, content on Coursera includes tight alignment from the learning objectives to the assessment…
International Women’s Day
Women make the world go round. They are leaders. Be it in the home, communities, the sports arena, arts, and culture, or even leading Fortune 500 companies, there is no limit to what women can accomplish. For years and throughout history, women have been blazing trails and making incredible and life-changing contributions to their worlds.…
4 Entry-level Jobs To Consider if You Want To Get Into...
Being a gamer often means having the humility to start at level one — and the same goes for your career. If you’re trying to break into the exciting field of game development, you need some experience. Luckily, there are plenty of entry-level jobs that are perfectly suited for beginners.Not sure which aspect of game…
LESSONS FROM ANIMALS
Author Anthony D. Williams, once said, “We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us”.“Go to the ant, you sluggards, study its ways and be wise,” the Holy Book (Bible) said of some animals we should imitate. Be as wise as a serpent and as gentle as a dove.Animals do…
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Is It Becoming More Acceptable for Men and Boys to Cry?
When was the last time you shed tears in public? Afterward, how did you feel? Were you embarrassed by your display of emotion, or relieved? Did you feel judged?Do you think boys and men face more judgment for crying than girls and women do? Or is it becoming more acceptable for everyone, including boys and…
Learn How To Organize Your Codebase With Software Design Principles
While learning how to code, you'll eventually start building bigger and more complex projects — which is exciting, but it can also introduce new challenges.Code can be delicate. You’ve spent months working on your app, adding functions here and there. But the code is getting messy, and it’s getting harder to make changes. Can this…
7 Tips for Learning from Home While Social Distancing
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over are learning from home for the first time. Students are attending school in virtual classrooms. And millions of others are spending time learning new skills while social distancing.We know that doing so from home can be tough, whether you're learning to code or another skill. That's…
Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Useless’ College Major?
The essay begins: I have taught creative writing at Mississippi’s flagship university for over 20 years, and I’ve witnessed a powerful outcome: Students who master written and spoken communication can change the world.Which is why the educational trend focusing on student outcomes is so alarming. In September, Mississippi’s state auditor, Shad White, published a report,…
June’s industry round-ups
Opinion: What predominantly white colleges should say amid Black Lives Matter protestsCourier Journal, 9 JuneIn this piece Ricky L. Jones points out that companies and universities should not be praised at this moment for simply putting out statements regarding the Black Lives Matter movement as this is “the easy, popular and convenient thing to do…
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: denigrate
This word has appeared in 61 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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…
Funny Flicks
Now is an ideal time to escape into fictional worlds — and to indulge in laughter. Have you been watching comedy movies lately as a distraction? What are some of your favorites and why? What funny films or TV shows would you recommend to others?Tell us in the comments, then read the related article for…
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…
Go Unlimited for less this October
This October, for a limited time, you can buy 12 months of Unlimited for even less. For one payment of £189 £139, you’ll have full access to hundreds of FutureLearn short courses for an entire year. Unlimited has countless benefits, but we’ve narrowed it down our top five so you can get stuck into learning sooner ✔️…