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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

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We recommend Codecademy’s “Learn SQL” course or Coursera’s “Introduction to Structured Query Language” course. Both of these examples teach the basics and prepare you for intermediate courses. For example, you could type the letter “t” to find emails that start with the letter “t.”.

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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses. Both edX and Coursera typically split revenue 50-50 with their partners, and it’s up to each college or organization to decide how their cut is shared. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.) News college rankings.

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Why Most Ivies Offer Few Online Degrees—And What’s Happening to Change It

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Cornell, for example, lists about 90 in such fields as hospitality, human resources and engineering. And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. But full degrees remain rare from these institutions.

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

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As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell. A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that colleges with a greater-than-average share of remote students largely charge lower tuition than their on-campus counterparts.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Rivers, Executive Director Online Communities of Practice - Are They Worth it? Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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The Business of Ed-Tech: 2017 So Far

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(But note: the kinds of companies that get coverage in the ed-tech and tech press – those that I’m likely to see and include in my research – are more likely to be those targeting K–12 and post-secondary education than those targeting the corporate learning market.). Coursera (online education) – $64 million.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot.