Learn Ruby Programming. How to Get Startup Ideas. November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way. Problems Why is it so important to work on a problem you have? Among other things, it ensures the problem really exists. I made it myself. Why do so many founders build things no one wants? At YC we call these "made-up" or "sitcom" startup ideas.
For example, a social network for pet owners. The danger of an idea like this is that when you run it by your friends with pets, they don't say "I would never use this. " Well Imagine a graph whose x axis represents all the people who might want what you're making and whose y axis represents how much they want it. Self Noticing Give yourself some time. My MOOCs - snarkychaser. The Scientific American article sat there every time we used the bathroom. I really didn’t have a chance to read it but it involved MOOCs (massive online courses) bringing first rate education to Rwanda. That same summer as we drove all over California to visit colleges for my teenaged daughter, she struggled to find internet access to take her tests from the University of Melbourne MOOC on Epigenetics.
My husband and I were fascinated by her dedication to learn and I became sold on the idea of MOOCs. This winter, when my twitter feed posted an article in the Atlantic Monthly about the edX, collaboration with Harvardx and MITx and their MOOC platform, I jumped right in to sign up. Because this was a very cold winter, I was not mobile due to an injury, and I am a compulsive person, I decided that three MOOC classes would be much better than one – and they are all free- so I enrolled in: · BerkleeX: BCM-MB110x Introduction to the Music Business taught by John P. Will See Music Malik Kistaaa. Why Piazza Works. Sign Up Company? Click here. Companies Get Started Log in About Product Support Legal Why Piazza Works Piazza is free, easy to use, and takes minutes to set up. It starts with students contributing. Anyone can ask and answer questions on Piazza.
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Keep up with class alerts by following along with email notifications. . ↓ Start. And Harvard release working papers on open online courses. MIT and Harvard University today announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. Run in 2012 and 2013, the courses analyzed drew upon diverse topics — from ancient Greek poetry to electromagnetism — and an array of disciplines, from public health to engineering to law. The working paper series features detailed reports about individual courses; these reports reveal differences and commonalities among massive open online courses (MOOCs). In the coming weeks, data sets and interactive visualization tools will also be made available. The papers analyze an average of 20 gigabytes of data per course and draw on interviews with faculty and course teams as well as student metrics.
Key takeaways Takeaway 1: Course completion rates, often seen as a bellwether for MOOCs, can be misleading and may at times be counterproductive indicators of the impact and potential of open online courses. Future directions. Access to MOOCs could be revolutionary, but US foreign policy is preventing that | Aasis Vinayak. Recently, Coursera, the online university course provider, began blocking students from Iran, Cuba and Sudan from using its services. Coursera, which boasts more than 21.5 million student enrolments from 190 countries, is one of the most popular MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms out there. But unlike other MOOCs (like MIT OpenCourseWare or edX), Coursera is a for-profit business, which means it can't serve students in countries against which the US government has imposed economic sanctions.
Students trying to access Coursera from Iran are out of luck. According to the US treasury, trade in "information and informational materials" is permitted between the US and countries like Iran, which is why online newspapers and some search engines can provide content to people living in those countries. In reality, almost all the courses offered by Coursera are free.
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I didn’t finish the Demo course, can I still start my other courses? What happens if I have to quit a course? What is the edX honor code? Crash Course in Diplomacy: U.S. Offers Free College for the World. A lone student in Singapore sits at a computer, carefully taking notes during a lecture about engineering. Another student does the same across the world in a house in Brazil, and another is listening to the same lecture in an apartment in Australia.
These students are all benefiting from a relatively new trend in online learning: MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, which are being offered by major American universities. Some of these courses draw as many as 100,000 students, each one learning for free, with no admission requirements. The upside is obvious: Lectures from brilliant professors are available to everyone—and these are not one-off TED talks or videos of old lectures. They are full, ongoing courses that really teach something. But the State Department is expanding its program to offer MOOC access and group support to a growing number of international students. Launched in October, the program now includes consulates and embassies in more than 40 countries. The future of MOOCs.