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Moocs, and the man leading the UK's charge Twenty months ago, Simon Nelson was shown a picture of a Highland cow, known in Gaelic as a kyloe. It was the Open University's code name for a secret project which, according to some accounts, will revolutionise higher education, making it available to millions across the world at zero cost. Today, Nelson, whose previous job at the BBC involved launching iPlayer, heads FutureLearn, a company that, 11 months after it opened for business, has 450,000 learners studying courses from 40 leading universities, 10 of them overseas including two in China.

100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) Entertainment Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones There are seven different words in Dothraki for striking another person with a sword. Among them: “hlizifikh,” a wild but powerful strike; “hrakkarikh,”a quick and accurate strike; and “gezrikh,” a fake-out or decoy strike. But you won’t find these words in George R.

eLearning Papers Special Edition: learning anywhere, Opening up Education and the promise of MOOCs Open technologies allow all individuals to learn, anywhere, anytime, through any device, with the support of anyone. Open educational resources, and especially MOOCs, provide alternative ways for students to gain new knowledge. They can also enhance learners’ ability to think creatively to select and adapt a paradigm to solve the problem at hand. Production of good quality MOOCs requires a lot of work and expertise.

MITx MOOC helps a farmer develop an autonomous tractor app Like most business owners, farmers are always seeking an edge to improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability. For grain producer Matt Reimer, the search for that edge drove him to MITx on edX — the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by MIT — and led him to develop a computer program that revolutionized his farm. Reimer grew up on his family’s farm in Manitoba, Canada, where work often starts at sunrise and continues late into the night.

Arduino Tutorial - Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino! So, I get two or three emails a day, all basically asking the same thing: "Where can I learn about electronics?" In general, most of these people have seen some of my projects and want to be able to build similar things. Unfortunately, I have never been able to point them to a good site that really takes the reader through a solid introduction to microcontrollers and basic electronics. I designed this tutorial course to accompany the Arduino starter pack sold at the Adafruit webshop. The pack contains all the components you need (minus any tools) for the lessons Follow these lessons for happiness and prosperity.

What We’ve Learned from Three Years of MOOCs Daphne Koller Three years ago, several of us at Stanford launched the first massive open online courses, or MOOCs. We wanted to make the teaching of the world’s great universities accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. European MOOC model - OpenupEd #K7MrB3# thinking she's gotten past dealing with her Use stripes correctly. Stripes can be your figure flattering best friend, or your worst fashion enemy. The trick is knowing when and how to use them. Arabic Numbers, Cardinal and Ordinal The table below shows examples of Arabic numbers. The first and the fifth columns have numbers used in some Arab countries; they’re not of Arabic origins but still used in many places especially copies of the Holy Qur’an …. Nowadays what we call the Arabic numbers are the numbers shown on the columns 2 and 6, which are used by the Arab world as well as the rest of the world. Forming numbers in Arabic is quite easy, from 13 to 19 you just place a number before ten for example 13 = three ten, instead of thirteen in English, 17 is seven ten in Arabic. From 21 to 99 you just need to reverse the numbers and add (wa- between the two numbers) 36 would be six wa- thirty instead of thirty six (sitta wa-thalathun), (wa means and). 0 is sifr in Arabic, from which the word cipher came.

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