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MITx-A Certificate for Completing Free MIT Online Courses | Cloudhackz
Learning in the cloud has been around for over ten years, but MIT is bringing cloud-based learning to mainstream education by awarding certificates for completion to anyone taking a selection of free, online courses. MITx, as MIT is calling it, will be a program of free courses open to everyone. MIT will charge a nominal fee for the actual certificate, but the courses will be completely free. MIT is planning to set up a non-profit organization with a name distinct from MIT. The new name and not MIT will appear on certificates. Modeled after the Stanford approach which saw almost 100,000 students register for its Machine Learning course, MIT’s couses (set to launch Spring 2012) will be broadly appealing. Read more in the Chronicles of Higher Education About Gina Clifford Gina is an Content Marketing Manager for a large tech company and a TEDster.
The Open-Source Revolution Is Here
I recently signed up for an online class on game theory offered by some professors at Stanford University. Unlike most online classes, this one is completely free, does not count towards any degree and is offered only by the goodness of the professors who put it together (they even had to fight the university to allow them to do it under the Stanford name.) So what you have is people coming together for the sole purpose of spreading/gaining knowledge. No money or certifications involved. The results are truly fascinating… Hold on a second Before I explain more about this online course, let’s delve into the title of this article. Prior to the development of the internet and ‘apps’, this idea would have seemed preposterous. This ‘e-altruism’ is seen ALL over the web. Now back to the online class… 1) Tens of thousands of people around the world have signed up for this class. 3) Again, this class is free and does not offer any legitimate course credit upon completion.
FREE -- Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government
FREE Features These features originally appeared on the FREE.ED.gov features blog. The features highlight resources and ideas related to holidays, awareness months, anniversaries and seasonal topics. January February March April May June July August Back to School: 7 Ways to Help Kids Transition Back to the Classroom September October November December About FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) offered a way to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations. FREE was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President. Technology has made it increasingly easier to find information from government agencies or with custom search tools, like Kids.gov. FREE Disclaimer The U.S.
The Upside of Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a complex disorder, and there is much that is still not understood about it. But a series of ingenious experiments have shown that many people with dyslexia possess distinctive perceptual abilities. For example, scientists have produced a growing body of evidence that people with the condition have sharper peripheral vision than others. Gadi Geiger and Jerome Lettvin, cognitive scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, used a mechanical shutter, called a tachistoscope, to briefly flash a row of letters extending from the center of a subject’s field of vision out to its perimeter. Typical readers identified the letters in the middle of the row with greater accuracy. Those with dyslexia triumphed, however, when asked to identify letters located in the row’s outer reaches. Mr. The opposite is also the case. The discovery of such talents inevitably raises questions about whether these faculties translate into real-life skills. In the second study, Mr. Mr.
Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - Wired Campus
The Stanford University professor who taught an online artificial-intelligence course to more than 160,000 students has abandoned his teaching position to aim for an even bigger audience. Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford, revealed today that he had given up his teaching role at the institution to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes. He made the surprising announcement during a presentation at the Digital–Life–Design conference, in Munich, Germany. The development was first reported earlier today by Reuters. During his talk, Mr. Thrun explored the origins of his popular online course at Stanford, which initially featured videos produced with nothing more than “a camera, a pen, and a napkin.” Mr. He concluded by telling the crowd that he couldn’t continue teaching in a traditional setting. One of Udacity’s first offerings will be a seven-week course called “Building a Search Engine.” Teaching the course at Stanford, Mr.
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UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version). See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Here is another video Nick created for this class.
