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I’ve been to two big gatherings of on-demand workers — the service-providers available through the apps of companies such as Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit and Homejoy. At the first meeting, last spring, drivers assembled in San Francisco to protest their treatment by Uber. They said the ride-hailing company was exploiting them.
Dr. Scott D. Miller: MOOC-Covered Towers? Online Education's Coming Impact on Traditional College
When I recently mentioned to some higher-education colleagues my concern about MOOCs, I was astonished that none of them seemed to know what I was talking about. They ignore MOOCs at their peril. Here's why: MOOCs, or "massive open online courses," reflect the continuing emergence and influence of consumer demand in the traditional higher education arena, with a technological vengeance.
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A change management checklist - Leading change
To improve your odds, use this change management checklist Organizations must become increasingly able to change quickly and easily. The business must be flexible yet capable of implementing and sustaining organizational change.
Revolution Hits the Universities
Last May I wrote about Coursera — co-founded by the Stanford computer scientists Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng — just after it opened. Two weeks ago, I went back out to Palo Alto to check in on them. When I visited last May, about 300,000 people were taking 38 courses taught by Stanford professors and a few other elite universities. Today, they have 2.4 million students, taking 214 courses from 33 universities, including eight international ones.
Open Learning Initiative
At Harvard Extension School, free and open learning is hardly a new concept. In fact, the Extension School was founded with this mission in mind: to create an affordable way for any motivated student to take courses at Harvard. We stay true to this mission today, offering several free courses and nearly 800 for-credit courses at reasonable tuition rates. Explore our series of free or low-cost courses below. In addition, you can also browse Harvard University's Digital Learning Portal, which features online learning content from across the University, both free and fee-based options.
Stanford Center for Professional Development
Comprised of 8 sessions, each with a run time of 10-20 minutes plus activities totaling 1 to 2 hours, the course focuses on the following concepts: 1. Knocking down the myths about math. Math is not about speed, memorization or learning lots of rules.
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