Coursera 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. 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. IndieGoGo's Co-Founder Wants Kids to Launch 10 Startups in 10 Years Slava Rubin, co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, has an ambitious plan to plant the seeds of entrepreneurship in the minds of students: He wants them to launch a new startup every year for ten years in middle school through college. "The best way for students to become entrepreneurs is through practice and experience," writes Rubin in his contribution to the #FixYoungAmerica book, to be published in May. "LeBron James became a basketball star because he practiced and played basketball regularly from an early age, not just because he watched Michael Jordan on television." Rubin believes entrepreneurship deserves a place in classrooms nationwide, right alongside calculus and biology. "Most college students think their options are limited to the jobs they've already been exposed to," says Rubin. Rubin's curriculum is divided into four parts, one for each semester of the school year. "Kids will grow and learn from their mistakes," says Rubin.
Screw University, Course Hero Curates YouTube Into Free Business and Coding Classes You can learn just about anything from YouTube…if you’re willing to dig through millions of videos. Luckily, Course Hero has done the work for you, offering coherent classes by hosting collections of the best educational YouTube videos and other content. The newly launched courses section of the eduTech startup’s site now has classes in entrepreneurship, business plan development, and programming in a variety of languages. Khan Academy is great, but isn’t as scalable since it create the content itself. So here’s how you get schooled. Rather than put you at the mercy of long-winded professors, Course Hero trims videos and articles down to their most important teachings. Course Hero’s CEO and co-founder Andrew Grauer tells me he wanted to find out “what would the Internet’s version of university look like?” Investors see that too. The startup has an innovative business model. Over the last six months, a slew of online learning startups have turned education into a consumer product.