Reflections
Use your imagination to write the opening of a short story or poem inspired by this illustration — or tell us about a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of.Tell us in the comments, then read the related article to learn more.Students 13 and older in the United States and…
Sample Phrases When Posting as an Affiliate
As an affiliate, you align yourself with a business or organisation and share that with your online connections. And if you manage to execute being an affiliate correctly, everyone involved becomes empowered and wins. There are several things you, as an affiliate, need to do to communicate your product or service to ensure the lead…
Biotechnologist Preps for Grad School with Specializations on Coursera
Mrinal is a biotechnologist pursuing his Master of Science in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. If I could describe the Systems Biology and Biotechnology Specialization in one sentence, it would be: “This course changed my life.” What I Learned I took a lot of courses on Coursera over the years, but one…
What Students Are Saying About Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’
The period of school shutdowns got students out of their school routines.When I think back to virtual learning, my brain automatically goes to how stress free it was. I was in sixth grade when Covid first hit and going through a period of my life where I was extremely anxious at school. I believe that…
Coursera launches a new suite of Academic Integrity features to help...
By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera Today, we’re excited to announce several new genAI-powered features designed to scale assessment creation and grading, strengthen academic integrity, and enhance learning and evaluation. These features, including AI-Assisted Grading, Proctoring and Lockdown Browser, and AI-based Viva Exams will help campuses deliver authentic learning to students while increasing the value of…
Google and IBM Professional Certificates on Coursera now aligned with India’s...
This collaboration with nasscom paves the way for colleges & universities to integrate job-relevant credentials into the core curriculum By Raghav Gupta, Managing Director, India and Asia-Pacific, Coursera As skills take center-stage in the digital economy, India is moving rapidly to meet the opportunity unfolding with a future-forward skills ecosystem. The University Grants Commission’s National…
Must Read
Custom Design Feature | Chew Chew Mama
We love doing custom designs for people with passion! Cindy, also known as Chew Chew Mama, is one of them. She’s a return customer who needed to upgrade her blog to a website to better support the growth of her site. Here’s a look at the original blog design we created for her: It was…
May’s industry round-ups
Opinion: 10 Predictions for Higher Education’s Future Inside Higher Ed, 26 MayThis piece claims that post-COVID, American colleges will maintain an online presence and many institutions will seek to transform many of their degree programs into permanent online offerings. It also predicts that there will be massive online competition and in five years, there will be…
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…
Would You Return a Lost Wallet? (What if It Had Lots...
Find all our Student Opinion questions here.Imagine you are walking down the street and you see a wallet. You open it and it has an ID but no money. Would you return it? What if it had $20? What if it had $200 or even $2,000. Would that prompt you to change your decision?Is it…
Celebrity Relationships, Police Robots and the Mall: Argumentative Writing by Teens
I personally very much like the idea of having a robot guard in the subway stations. Especially since Korea has faced some problems recently about people with knives making disruptions in the subway stations. Also, sexual harassment has always been a problem in subways because they don’t have evidence and because there are no cameras.…
Past Stories
What is money?
Money itself is changing. Debates about the money form – who issues it and how we use it – have found new shapes in the digital economy. The emergence of a cashless society and the fascination with cryptocurrencies are both altering how we use money and what we know it to be. Yet it’s far…
Teenagers on Their Hopes and Fears for a Second Trump Administration
One of the very few things I am fearful of is the safety of the returning president, as they have already attempted to take his life twice. Along with that, the safety of fellow Americans and supporters of the returning president is also a concern after the unfortunate murder of Corey Comperatore and the other…
The latest courses, Specializations, and Professional Certifications in UX design, generative...
With more world-class content launching every week, there are always new topics to explore, new skills to learn and new ways to achieve your goals. These latest courses, Specializations, and Professional Certificates cover everything from UX design and generative AI to real estate and cybersecurity. What will you learn next? *Recently Updated* Google UX Design…
Area Closed
This is an image from a recent news story. What does it show? What do you think it is saying? How does it relate to or comment on society or current events? Do you have a personal reaction to it? What is your opinion of its message?Tell us in the comments, then read the related…
Word of the Day: overture
The word overture has appeared in 77 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Aug. 2 in “Hollywood Studios Signal New Strategy by Talking With Writers” by Brooks Barnes and John Koblin:There continued to be disagreement over how to handle certain Writers Guild demands, including staffing minimums in TV show writers’ rooms. But…