Alison’s Coronavirus Course Translators: Tomáš Kubašta
To help the world combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Alison launched the course Coronavirus – What you need to know. In order to make sure that no one was excluded from accessing possibly life-saving information, Alison committed to translating the course into as many languages as possible. To achieve this ambitious goal, Alison reached out to its community of…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | May 2, 2022
1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post…
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…
Word of the Day: revue
This word has appeared in 52 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Learning With: ‘A Pledge to Pay Morehouse College Students’ Debt Prompts...
Before reading the article: Did you hear about the billionaire investor who shocked and delighted the 396 graduates of Morehouse College when he pledged to repay their student loans? Watch the video above to see what he says. Then, make some guesses before reading further: — What percentage of students at four-year colleges do you…
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Breaking Language Barriers: Sankoumba Kourouma’s Journey with Alison
Meet Sankoumba: A Financial Engineer in Dakar Sankoumba Kourouma is a Guinean financial engineer living in Dakar, Senegal. He came across Alison while searching online and was instantly intrigued when he realised he could take online courses for free. Despite being a native French speaker, Sankoumba didn’t let language barriers hold him back. For Sankoumba,…
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…
It’s Not Just Ledgers and Balance Sheets Anymore: How the Illinois...
The evolving field of accounting presents new opportunities for data-savvy students Data science is changing the skills required to be a successful modern-day accountant. The University of Illinois’ online MSA program (iMSA) helps those interested in an accounting or finance career master new tools and capitalize on the exciting opportunities created by this evolution. Accounting…
How to Learn AI for Free: A Career-Focused Step-by-Step Guide
Everyone is curious about how to learn AI, but for most professionals, the starting line feels buried under a mountain of jargon and hype. If you are a mid-level professional, manager, or skilled worker feeling the pressure of AI adoption, the hardest part is often not the motivation to learn a new tool, but the…
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…
Word of the Day: fallibility
The word fallibility has appeared in 16 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 9 in “These Jennifer Aniston Fans Weren’t Born When ‘Friends’ Aired” by Ruth La Ferla:Ana Menendez, 15, a visitor from Mexico City, admires Rachel’s grit. “When the show had its premiere, she was a little spoiled,” Ms. Menendez…
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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…
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…
Cool Job: I’m Wikipedia’s Lead Product Manager
A key part of any Product Manager’s role is managing the expectations of various stakeholders — from the internal leadership team to the product’s end users. As the Lead Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, Olga Vasileva has hundreds of thousands of stakeholders to consider. “Our main stakeholder and collaborator…
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…
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Ukraine Food Crisis, Supreme Court Confirmation,...
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court on April 7, will in one sense transform it. Once she replaces Justice Stephen G. Breyer, one of the 108 white men who preceded her, the court will look a lot more like the nation it serves. But she will do nothing…