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MITx Opens for Enrollment (and Certification - For Now - Is Free)

MITx Opens for Enrollment (and Certification - For Now - Is Free)
MIT opens registration today for the first of its online courses offered as part of its new MITx initiative. The university announced MITx late last year as the next step not just in informal online learning but in alternative certification. Registration for MITx is free and open to anyone, and for this first "prototype" class, there is no additional charge to receive the certification upon successful completion of the class. This first class is "6.002x: Circuits and Electronics." It will run from March 5 through June 8 and will be taught by Anant Agarwal and Chris Terman (co-directors of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Piotr Mitros (one of CSAIL's research scientists), and Gerald Sussman (a professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science). According to the course website, the class will demand approximately 10 hours a week from those enrolled.

Introduction to Excel Financial Modeling - What is a Financial Model and how to build one? Posted on July 21st, 2010 in Featured , Financial Modeling , Learn Excel - 43 comments This is a guest post written by Paramdeep from Pristine. Chandoo.org is partnering with Pristine to bring an excel financial modeling online training program for you. This is Part 1 of 6 on Financial Modeling using Excel In this and next 5 posts, we are going to learn how to build a financial model to do project evaluation using Excel. What is financial modeling? Financial modeling is creating a complete program/ structure, which helps you in coming to a decision regarding investment in a project/ company. Who does Financial Modeling? Anybody dealing with any decision related to money (wish there was somebody who did not require that!). What are the steps in building a financial model? Data collection – This is where the real front end banker works. One Advice for Aspiring Financial Modelers Speed is the Key: Finally when you are dealing with tons of information, you can easily get bored. What Next?

BBC Languages – Free online lessons to learn and study with Frostbitten Collard Greens | My Family Recipe Rocks! | Side Dishes Place a stockpot over low heat. Add the bacon and slowly cook to render the fat. When the bacon is crisp, remove and reserve. Cook the onion in the bacon drippings until "lazy" and slightly colored, about 5 minutes, Pour in the liquid and the remaining ingredients except the collards Increase your heat and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, and continue cooking for 20 minutes. This is the "pot likker". Add in the collards, a handful at a time, stirring each addition until wilted. Remove the hock and let cool. Chopped the collards if desired. Transfer the collards to a bowl, and top with the crisp bacon.

15 Best Online Resources for College Students Online resources have made an entire revolution in education, not only because they are convenient and accessible, but because they make the entire process of teaching and learning more interesting and memorable. There are free and paid online resources for college students and they usually complement one another quite well. Each student will prefer different resources according to their subjects of interest and learning style, but there are universally great tools that impress nearly every student who tries them. In order to help college students locate the best online resources that will make their lives easier, we tailored a list of 15 most useful links that offer exactly what they need for achieving good grades. 1. Tom Kuhlmann is a blogger who shares practical tips all students can benefit from. 2. Atrixware is a company that has developed a great online learning management system that enables students to create great presentations easily. 3. 4. 5.Study Guide Zone 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Planification stratégique · Communagir Qu’est-ce que planifier de façon stratégique? La planification stratégique se comprend comme un cadre définissant la vision, de même que les principaux objectifs, étapes et moyens permettant d’atteindre le changement souhaité dans un certain laps de temps déterminé. Sans planification stratégique, il est probable que le changement souhaité ne puisse survenir naturellement. Dans le cas du développement d’une communauté, la planification stratégique s’inscrit dans une longue portée temporelle, ce qui rend d’autant nécessaire l’identification d’une ligne directrice, d’une orientation globale. La planification stratégique sert ainsi de guide pour ajuster l’avancement d’une démarche de développement, puisqu’elle permet de veiller à la cohérence entre la vision, les orientations et les actions à réaliser. Planifier : Organiser selon un plan. Stratégie : Art de diriger et de coordonner des actions pour atteindre un objectif. Position stratégique : Qui permet d’agir dans les meilleures conditions.

Magazine - Table of Contents The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The film tells two overlapping stories: One is of accomplishment against incredible odds, of a man who stepped into the most violent maximum-security prison in the nation and gave the men there—discarded and damned—what society didn’t: hope, education, and a moral compass.

Uncle Remus Uncle Remus in Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881 "Old Plantation Play Song", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881 Structure[edit] Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore, collected from Southern United States African-Americans. The stories are written in an eye dialect devised by Harris to represent a Deep South Gullah dialect. Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a likable character, prone to tricks and trouble-making who is often opposed by Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. Controversy and legacy[edit] The animal stories were conveyed in such a manner that they were not seen as racist by many among the audiences of the time. Harris himself said, in the introduction to Uncle Remus, that he hoped his book would be considered: ...a sympathetic supplement to Mrs. He was the bashfulest grown person I have ever met. See also[edit] Notes[edit]

Online Learning: An Intensive Bachelor's Level Computer Science Program Curriculum, Part II Last month, we published a piece providing a basic template for a bachelor’s level computer science curriculum composed entirely from college or university courses that are freely available online. To date, this has been the most popular post on the blog, and we received a ton of great feedback, both positive and negative, in the comments and from around the web. The original post was based on a learning plan that I had worked out for myself after I jumped into the study of programming and computer science just over a year ago on something of a whim. On the basis of the feedback from that post, we’ve put together a new list of course offerings that covers a lot more ground. The course listing is broken down into three major divisions: Introductory Courses, Core Courses and Intermediate/Advanced Courses. Last but not least, thanks to everyone who provided feedback and offered suggestions on how to improve the original listing. Introductory Courses Intro to Computer Science: Theory:

List of cognitive biases In psychology and cognitive science, cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment.[1][2] They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.[1] A memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content of a reported memory. Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise,[3] or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking. Both effects can be present at the same time.[4][5] Although this research overwhelmingly involves human subjects, some studies have found bias in non-human animals as well. [edit] Association:

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