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This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards, in the design of golf
courses
and public parks and in gold-framed pictures that hang in living rooms from New York to New Zealand.
These kids did a little graffiti on their desks, and then they signed up for two extra
courses.
So, Nkiru Nzegwu says that Osun, who is an orisha of the Yoruba people, typically associated with water, purity, fertility, love and, most importantly, sensuality, represents a female-centered life-transforming energy that
courses
through and animates life.
I teach
courses
in physical computing and wearable electronics.
I was entering college, Long Island University, and I had always wanted to be a teacher, and so I minored in education and I took all the appropriate courses, and then when it was time for me to go for my license, I had to take a written exam, an oral exam and a medical exam.
So one of the first things we teach people in economics, statistics, business and psychology
courses
is how, in a statistically valid way, do we eliminate the weirdos.
out of which, 34,000 have already graduated from our
courses.
The difference is mainly irrigating the desert for food, or maybe golf
courses
in Scottsdale, you take your pick.
During 41 years of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright students turned away from the possibility of a scientific career or even from taking non-required
courses
in science because they were afraid of failure.
The answer is, we are teaching them to read in literacy
courses
by NATO in partnership with private sector entities, in partnership with development agencies.
So we formed Coursera, whose goal is to take the best
courses
from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free.
We currently have 43
courses
on the platform from four universities across a range of disciplines, and let me show you a little bit of an overview of what that looks like.
So what made these
courses
so different?
Let's talk a little bit about some of the components that go into these
courses.
Now, of course we cannot yet grade the range of work that one needs for all
courses.
Around each one of our courses, a community of students had formed, a global community of people around a shared intellectual endeavor.
Students collaborated in these
courses
in a variety of different ways.
And so, in many of our courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes.
And in the context of particular courses, you can ask questions like, what are some of the misconceptions that are more common and how do we help students fix them?
But I realized that what I really needed to know I couldn't get from training
courses.
And NAND2Tetris became one of the first massive, open, online courses, although seven years ago we had no idea that what we were doing is called MOOCs.
We just observed how self-organized
courses
were kind of spontaneously spawning out of our materials.
The people who are attracted to these
courses
typically have a hacker mentality.
They want to figure out how things work, and they want to do it in groups, like this hackers club in Washington, D.C., that uses our materials to offer community
courses.
And the number one reason, we find, quite frankly, is they did not do well in first year science
courses.
In fact, we call first year science and engineering, typically around America, weed-out
courses
or barrier
courses.
And what we learned was that we needed to think about redesigning
courses.
And it's working so well that throughout our university system in Maryland, more and more
courses
are being redesigned.
This reason really is that I am a man who, almost 30 years ago, had his life saved by two long
courses
of electroshock therapy.
It starts with an M. MOOC: massive open online
courses.
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