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…
The Story of Your Name
What is your name, and how did you get it? Have you ever altered or changed your name for any reason? Has anyone else? For instance, maybe you go by a nickname more often than the name on your birth certificate. Which of the names you are called do you like best? Why? If you…
Think you’re not creative? Think again…
By Professor Anne-Laure Sellier, from HEC Paris This is the mantra that creativity expert, Professor Anne-Laure Sellier takes into the world of business, and also into the classroom. Her Boosting Creativity course at HEC Paris is among the most popular on the school’s online MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, and helps participants to tap…
Should Teachers Be Allowed to Wear Political Symbols?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Many school districts have policies prohibiting employees from expressing political speech while carrying out their professional duties. For example, in such districts teachers can have a “Trump 2020” yard sign in front of their home, but they…
Which Type of Project is Right for Me?
When you're learning how to code, you have to get your hands dirty before you actually get it. Online courses and reference materials are a great way to build your foundation, but they'll only take you so far. To really cement your skills, you'll need to start building projects.But how, and what kind?Before jumping into…
What Do You Wish You Could Do Well?
Are you a karaoke enthusiast? If so, you might have a few tips to share about how to choose a song — for example, “just because you like it does not mean you should sing it.” (After all, not everybody has the vocal range for “Bohemian Rhapsody.”)For seven years, The New York Times’s Tip column…
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Tips To Get Your Business Off The Ground
Making the leap from employee to employee is no small feat. It’s a big step. You’ve invested money, time, and energy into your new venture. Everything is riding on its success. In recent years, we’ve seen big conglomerates and small businesses alike have closed their doors. We’ve also seen new businesses start up, find their…
Lesson of the Day: ‘A “Front-Row Seat” to the Birth of...
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “A ‘Front-Row Seat’ to the Birth of a Comet” by Robin George AndrewsSpace is so vast and expansive that generally scientists see only slivers of it at any given moment, which makes the identification…
Introducing Live2Coursera: scaling live online teaching to reach every learner
By Shravan Goli, Chief Product Officer The pandemic has ignited an unprecedented shift in higher education. This past spring, 1.6 billion students worldwide were learning from home, and today more than a billion students are still impacted by campus closures. Colleges and universities continue to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 and what the transition…
Rubik’s Cube
Do you like puzzles? Crossword puzzles? Wordle? Jigsaw puzzles? Sudoku? Brainteasers? Riddles?Or, do you find them needlessly frustrating?Have you ever tried to solve a Rubik’s Cube, the iconic 3x3 twist puzzle with 43 quintillion colorful combinations? Did you ever successfully complete one — or at least get a whole side to be one solid color?Max…
What does a product manager do?
Product Managers play a central role in bringing solutions to life by managing the successful development and launch of a product. They often serve as a liaison between the company's goals as outlined by executives and the engineers who use those goals to create effective products.In other words, a Product Manager plays a pivotal role…
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Free September 2023 Wallpaper & Instagram quote
September 4, 2023 Free September 2023 wallpaper is here! I’m excited to present to you this month’s wallpaper featuring stunning scenery to celebrate the beginning of autumn. It is truly breathtaking, with trees adorned in the most stunning shades of orange and yellow, and the leaves gently falling in the breeze. This wallpaper is the…
Go Unlimited for less in 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 ✔️…
Playing the Paper
People around the globe shell out billions of dollars each year on professionally manufactured games: According to a recent study, spending worldwide on playing cards and board games is expected to reach nearly $22 billion by the year 2025. But the truth is that you can turn anything into a game — even a newspaper!…
International Women’s Day 2017 – 5 women who inspire us to...
In honour of International Women’s Day 2017, in this post we share five women who inspire us to keep learning, and keep helping others to learn. 1. Katherine Johnson The Apollo 11 flight to the moon wouldn’t have got very far without Katherine Johnson, an African-American physicist and mathematician who worked at NASA in the…
Cool Job: I’m A Google Engineer & I Lead Google’s Web...
NM Dayton can easily point to the proudest moment of their career: Using voice-to-text to submit code as a software engineer working on Google's Voice Typing in Docs accessibility team. It was a full-circle moment for NM, who is disabled as a result of multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, and relied on these accessibility tools…
Who Are the Best Musical Artists of the Past Year? What...
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Did you watch the Grammy Awards on Sunday? If not, you can see highlights from the show here. Were any of your favorite artists nominated? Did any of them win? When you consider the list of winners…