Showing posts with label coursera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coursera. Show all posts

Saturday, March 3, 2018

You Have a New Business Idea? What’s Next? – Learn the Learning Launch Tool

What do you do if you have a business idea and want to test its attractiveness and practicality in the real marketplace? Maybe you start writing a business plan, look for funding sources, and launch your new business, right? Hell, NO! That’s the traditional and the riskiest way of starting a business. It’s also a waste of time, as many new entrepreneurs have experienced. It’s, as Professor Ed Hesse said, a “complete idiocy”.

Thursday, August 21, 2014

How to Learn More by Studying Less?

Being intelligent within … (a) subject is often a factor (of) just how much exposure you have had to it. - Scott Young, a "Marco Polo" of Learning.

To learn more in less time, it only depends on motivating yourself. But, in the first place, Why do we fail to motivate ourselves?
This is because majority of learners use low-efficient study methods when they want to learn more; and this takes more of their time. In turn, this more-time-requirement leads to a tendency of preference for "ineffective study methods".

Therefore, what do we have to do to motivate ourselves?

Friday, August 8, 2014

My Experience with MOOCs–College Writing 2x: Principles of Written English

Source: edX
 

Introduction

Principles of Written English is an online introductory level university course designed for learners of English. The course has attracted 40,000 registrants around the world. It is offered by Berkley University of California for free through EdX. EdX is a non-profit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT whose mission is to bring the best of higher education to students of all ages anywhere in the world, wherever there is Internet access ( http://edx.org ). The course will continue five weeks and includes a required final essay.
Luckily, I am one of the registered students of the course

Thursday, May 27, 2010

MOOCs' Impact on Higher Education


INTRODUCTION

MOOCs, abbreviated from massive open online courses, have become the most discussed educational topic because they promise higher education to be “better, cheaper and more widely available” across the world (Kirp, 2013). They are a form of a free online education for everyone around the world with internet access. They are provided by elite institutions, mainly from North America – Harvard, UC Berkeley, Standford.
If you observe MOOCs’ quick spread across the world, they are the best technological innovation for education that required the least effort to be applied