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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

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If you want a job coding, you have to know how to get around a database, and that means SQL. One of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew has suggestions on how to test it out and what are the most important elements to learn: How High School Students Can Try Out SQL and 4 Things They Should Learn About It . How to Manipulate Data.

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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. But in a new effort announced Thursday, called Coursera for Campus, the company will begin selling access to its complete library of courseware to any college to use, at around $400 per student.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

So many people ask me how to respond to Artificial Intelligence and my response is always, that we need to shift our pedagogical practices into the classroom to the time-tested research-based best practices. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates.

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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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The colleges and companies offering MOOCs can be pretty guarded these days about releasing specific numbers on how many people enroll or pay for a “verified certificate” or microcredential showing they took the course. But both Coursera and EdX, two of the largest providers, do release lists of their most popular courses.

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4 Ways AI Education and Ethics Will Disrupt Society in 2019

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AI courses through traditional universities like MIT , along with online courses through organizations like Coursera , will aim to prepare more people for jobs in AI. This year the broader societal implications of AI will lead to the launch and growth of many efforts across education, corporations and government.

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

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In fact, I argue that the debate about how to price tuition is among the academy’s most threatening struggles. As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell. So it’s worth illuminating various cases for different pricing strategies for online tuition.

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