Alison & The Artist – Learn to Draw with Ethan Moran
Ethan Moran is a portrait artist based in Galway, Ireland. An avid drawer with over fifteen years experience, Ethan currently teaches art through an Irish youth organisation, passing on his skills and passion to the next generation. He has now teamed with Alison to spread his knowledge globally by producing an exciting new course entitled…
Welcoming Morehouse College to the Coursera partner community
Morehouse College launches sports activism course taught by NBA All-Star Chris Webber By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer at Coursera I’m excited to announce our partnership with Morehouse College as we continue to expand our engagement with leading institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. Morehouse College, a leading producer of…
New for partners: Redesigned course authoring and admin tools
By Jennifer Wolochow, Senior Product Manager at Coursera Coursera is committed to helping our 200+ university and industry partners create transformational learning experiences. Authoring and managing courses is a vital aspect to our platform, and the tools to do so are used by thousands of partners on a weekly, if not daily, basis. That’s why…
145 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing
A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
Word of the Day: boycott
The word boycott has appeared in 308 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 19 in “Kandinsky Cut Ties With Russia. So Did This Museum” by Nina Siegal:When the Hermitage Amsterdam cut ties with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it could have seemed…
Learning With Flashcards
How did they investigate these questions?They conducted two experiments. In the first experiment, participants were asked to study one of two text passages (biological anthropology versus geology) and then instructed participants to study in one of four conditions:1. Provided-Flashcards: Participants were given premade flashcards from the textbooks to study with. These flashcards were heavily detail-level…
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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 to choose the best colors for blogs? – the Power...
October 27, 2021 Whether we realize it or not, our minds are automatically programmed to respond to color. Color shapes our moods, our thoughts, and our emotions. Because of the subconscious effect color has on the mind, it’s important to keep the psychology of color in mind when selecting colors for your blog. Your choice…
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…
Are You Sure You’re Spacing?
New StudyToday I’m reviewing a study that recently came out looking at how students choose to use spacing in their own study and how it relates to their performance (1). Importantly, the researchers recognized a limitation in the way students were being asked about their study habits in previous research on spacing. Here are common…
How to Use AI to Get Ahead in School
At Codecademy, we think of ChatGPT as an enthusiastic study buddy, not a cheating device. There are AI-powered tools built right into our courses and paths so you can quickly get help when you’re stuck or need an error explained. This kind of feedback can be a game-changer for folks who are learning on their…
World Series Champions
On Wednesday night, the Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros, 6-2, in Game 7 of the World Series. The victory marked the Nationals’ first ever World Series win, becoming the first major league team from Washington to win the World Series since 1924. Are you a baseball fan? What is your reaction to this historic…
Past Stories
Word of the Day: sheepishly
The word sheepishly has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 8 in the guest essay “Anxious Parents Are the Ones Who Need Help” by Mathilde Ross:If the anxiety is connected to academic performance — for instance, if your child is having difficulty following the professor and thinks everyone…
What Are the Greatest Songs of All Time?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.What songs do you consider to be among the greatest of all time? Why?What do you love or appreciate about these songs? Is it the instrumentation, vocals, lyrics or something else that makes the music so outstanding?…
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…
Combatting the Stigma Around Loneliness
Loneliness is a natural human emotion, yet it remains one of the most stigmatised. This Loneliness Awareness Week (June 9-15), Alison is highlighting a free course designed to help develop connections – and open up conversations about this natural aspect of the human condition. The course, Guide to Wellbeing: From Loneliness to Connection, highlights how…
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America isn’t making electricity the way it did two decades ago. How have energy sources changed since 2001?
Lesson of the Day: ‘1.5 Million New Yorkers Can’t Afford Food....
6. What did you learn from this piece that you didn’t know before? What would you most like to remember from it?Going FurtherOption 1: Listen to a Podcast About a Food PantryListen to the first 35 minutes of “The Daily” podcast episode “A Day at the Food Pantry.” You can follow along with the transcript…