EdTechX Summit: Lessons learned for higher education during COVID-19
Author: Holly Shiflett PhD, Partnerships Director, North America I’ve always wondered when and if we’d ever reach a point when online education would be considered business as usual, rather than an extension or alternate approach. I think that time is now. The pandemic has forced us to adopt EdTech in new ways and it’s great to…
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…
An interview with Mesoma Akaolisa, future iMBA graduate.
Meet Mesoma, a native of Nigeria. She is currently based in Houston, Texas, and is a rising leader on the engineering team at ExxonMobil. She knows it’s important to acquire new skills to progress further in her role, and Coursera has become instrumental in her growth. In a recent interview, she shared her thoughts on…
Music Therapy
What is your favorite song to listen to when you’re in a bad mood? Do you have a go-to playlist or preferred genre? Is it a specific artist, a song’s tempo, resonant lyrics, or some other element that helps soothes the soul? Tell us in the comments, then read the related article about the benefits…
Learn how Emilia enhanced key soft skills to grow in her...
Meet Emilia who’s learning from Toronto, Canada! Emilia is a Creative Industries graduate from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) who specializes in performance and story-telling through media. Read more about her career journey after graduation and how a time management course on Coursera helped her succeed in the workplace. During my time at TMU, I took…
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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…
Runners-Up From Our 10th Annual Student Editorial Contest
Some of the most ardent defenders of parental rights argue that teenagers need strict parental regulation because teens are confused and easily corruptible. They’re not entirely wrong. But the process of adolescence — developing abstract thinking and fundamental moral values — isn’t complete unless young people are given the freedom to explore the world on…
Word + Quiz: stolid
stolid ˈstä-ləd adjective: having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited_________The word stolid has appeared in 17 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 24 in “The Evening News Is Back” by John Koblin:Sober and straightforward, evening news programs were a chief information delivery system 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…
Rites of Spring
Spring has sprung across the Northern Hemisphere. If, where you live, flowers are blooming, birds are making nests and the weather is getting warmer, what does that mean for you? What do you like about this season? Tell us using details as specific as possible. How do you mark or celebrate the season, whether through…
Introducing Coursera’s 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
Coursera honors global innovators at its 12th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards. Discover how these winners are transforming education and shaping the future of learning worldwide. Photo by Chloe Jackman As Coursera celebrates its 12th year, we stand at the forefront of a global learning revolution. Our partners and customers have not just adapted to the…
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World Series
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.“The shortest and strangest season in Major League Baseball history will finish with a clash of coasts and contrasts. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays — big spenders and bargain hunters — will crown one…
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…
Is Summer School a Smart Way to Make Up for Learning...
In “Summer School Is a Hot Idea Right Now. Could It Work?” Dana Goldstein and Kate Taylor write:The idea makes sense, so much so that at least two governors, a national union leader and President Biden are behind it: extend this school year into the summer to help students make up for some of 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…
The Notorious BSOD: Unpacking the Worldwide CrowdStrike Outage
It was the Blue Screen of Death seen around the world: On Friday, a defect in a routine CrowdStrike software update caused global outages for Microsoft users. Major banks, airlines, healthcare organizations, media companies, and emergency services all experienced what’s known as “the Blue Screen of Death” or BSOD for short. As the name suggests,…
Summer Reading Contest Winner Week 3: On ‘Sure, Just Have the...
Olivia Wasmund chose an article from the Opinion section headlined “Sure, Just Have the Baby” and wrote:In Pamela Paul’s article, “Sure, Just Have the Baby,” she recounts the difficulties she experienced as a pregnant mother in America, where delivering a baby is 14 times riskier than having an abortion. There’s a lot I don’t know…