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جدیترین کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان

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این دوره برای افراد مبتدی کاملا طراحی شده است. کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  این مبانی برنامه نویسی را به شما آموزش می دهد که به بسیاری از زبان های برنامه نویسی دیگر منتقل می شود. تنها چیزی که قبل از گذراندن این دوره باید بدانید، حسابی اساسی است.

آنچه یاد خواهید گرفت

کامپیوتر چیست؟ کامپیوتر چگونه یک برنامه را اجرا  کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  می کند؟ چرا ظاهر شدن باگ ها در کد آسان است؟ اینها سوالاتی است که بخش اول دوره به دنبال پاسخ به آن است. آیا می دانید دو مهارت اساسی برنامه نویسی چیست؟ دانستن زبان برنامه نویسی (duh!) و داستان گویی. بله، برنامه نویسان باید بتوانند یک داستان توصیفی را برای کامپیوتر تعریف کنند تا آن را دنبال و تفسیر کند. این یک روش خنده دار برای بیان آن است، اما به طور خلاصه برنامه نویسی است.

سپس، پایتون را نصب می‌کنید و یک ویرایشگر کد را ان کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  تخاب می‌کنید (این دوره Atom را توصیه می‌کند). اکنون آماده نوشتن ��ولین خط کد خود هستید — print («Hello World!»).

شما با مطالعه واژگان و گرامر پایه پایتون شروع می کنید تا شروع به ساختن داستان خود کنید. شما در مورد متغیرها و عباراتی که مقادیر را ذخیره و محاسبه می کنند، یاد خواهید گرفت. جریان داستان خود را با استفاده از شرط‌هایی مانند «اگر» و «دیگر» و همچنین تکرار بخش‌هایی از داستان خود با حلقه‌ها و تکرارهایی مانند «وقتی» و «برای» کنترل خواهید کرد. علاوه بر این، می‌دانید که چگونه آرگومان‌هایی را به توابع ارسال کنید که به شما ا کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  مکان می‌دهد از کد خود دوباره استفاده کنید. خداحافظ کپی و پیست کن

در پایان دوره، برنامه ای می نویسید که ورودی کاربر را می پذیرد، نتیجه را محاسبه می کند و خروجی را به کاربر برمی گرداند. شاید زیاد به نظر نرسد، اما گامی بزرگ به سوی برنامه نویس شدن است.

چگونه یاد خواهید گرفت

این دوره 7 هفته است و در مجموع 19 ساعت مطالب آموزشی  کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  دارد. با یک وب سایت همراه همراه است که در آن کدنویسی کرده و تکالیف خود را ارسال می کنید (فقط در صورتی که برای گواهی پرداخت کرده باشید). کتابی که دوره بر اساس آن است به صورت رایگان در وب سایت موجود است.

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حقایق جالب

این دوره اولین دوره از پنج دوره تخصصی Python for Everybody است. اگر می‌خواهید پس از پایان این دوره، مهارت‌های پایتون خود را جمع‌آوری کنید، در اینجا مورد بعدی از این سر کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  ی است: ساختارهای داده پایتون - که می‌تواند به صورت رایگان نیز بررسی شود.

هر هفته از دوره شامل یک ویدیوی جایزه است که در آن دکتر چاک با چند برنامه نویس برجسته مصاحبه می کند، یکی از آنها Guido van Rossum، خالق خود پایتون است.

این دوره دارای بیش از 124 هزار نشانک و 35 هزار بررسی در ClassCentral است!

دوره دکتر چاک بخشی از لیست محبوب ترین دوره آموزش برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان  های ما در تمام دوران و بهترین دوره های تمام دوران است. بنابراین بله، این اولین انتخاب آسان بود!

مدرس دوره دکتر چاک یک مربی فوق العاده محبوب است کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان . اگر تدریس او را دوست دارید، حتما دوره های دیگر او را در مورد جنگو و برنامه های کاربردی وب بررسی کنید.

اگر به این دوره علاقه مند هستید، می توانید اطلاعات بیشتری در مورد دوره و نحوه ثبت نام در اینجا بیابید.

2. محاسبات در پایتون I: اصول و برنامه ریزی رویه ای (موسسه فناوری گرجستان)

دیوید جوینر، مدرس دوره

دومین انتخاب من برای بهترین دوره برنامه نویسی، محاس کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  بات در پایتون I: اصول و برنامه ریزی رویه ای توسط موسسه فناوری جورجیا در edX است.

اگرچه این دوره از پایتون به عنوان زبان برنامه نویسی آموزشی استفاده می کند، اما شما را با چندین مفهوم اساسی در برنامه نویسی و علوم کامپیوتر نیز آشنا می کند. مفاهیمی که به هر زبان برنامه نویسی دیگری منتقل می شود. در پایان این دوره، نحوه نوشتن برنامه هایی را خواهید فهمید که عملیات پیچیده ریاضی مانند  کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  محاسبه نرخ بهره لازم برای رسیدن به یک هدف پس انداز را انجام می دهند.

این دوره توسط دکتر دیوید جوینر تدریس می شود. همکار من مانوئل چهار دوره از دوره های خود را در زمینه کارشناسی ارشد آنلاین خود گذرانده است (و حتی با آن پسر آشنا شده است!). او فقط چیزهای خوبی در مورد دیوید جوینر و دوره های او دارد که همیشه با دقت فکر شده است، به ویژه از نظر طراحی آموزشی و روش های تدریس.

تنها چیزی که قبل از گذراندن این دوره به آن نیاز دارید، محاسبات اولیه است.

آنچه یاد خواهید گرفت

این دوره با مقدمه ای بر محاسبات شروع می شود و نحوه کار کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  کامپیوترها را توضیح می دهد. به عنوان یک برنامه نویس، شما با کامپیوتر زیاد کار خواهید کرد، بنابراین داشتن درک اولیه از این ماشین ها ضروری است! سپس اصطلاحات محاسباتی را یاد خواهید گرفت و نحوه عملکرد پردازش کد را درک خواهید کرد.

پس از تنظیم محیط برنامه نویسی خود، با چند اصل اساسی ب کلاس برنامه نویسی کودکان و نوجوانان اصفهان  رنامه نویسی آشنا خواهید شد، مانند تفاوت بین کامپایل و اجرای کد و چرخه نوشتن-اجرای-اشکال زدایی. شما می دانید که چگونه نتایج اجرای کد خود را تجزیه و تحلیل کنید و از آن نتایج برای اصلاح آن استفاده کنید.

در مرحله بعد با پارادایم برنامه نویسی رویه ای در پایتون آشنا می شو Programming class for children and teenagers in Isfahan  ید. متوجه خواهید شد که یک برنامه فقط دنباله ای از خطوط کد است که با f اجرا می شود

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hello, I saw your learn-a-language resources post a while ago, and I wanted to ask whether you have any good ones for learning Indian languages like Sanskrit, or Marathi, or Kannada?

Hello!! sorry i'm late

So, I found 3 real nice websites for Indian languages. I got lists of more, but when i checked them, they were broken or just did not work :/ so instead, i decided to link up some other stuff that should help

The websites:

1. Languages Home

2. Dwibhashi

3. Language Reef

They cover a lot of languages and are really, really good.

Next up is HiNative, basically here you can connect with native speakers to help you translate, learn vocab, help with pronunciation, etc. You can yourself help others with your native language.

Omniglot is not just limited to any language. It basically keeps a record of links to learn all languages. I discovered it while researching for this post, and damn it's really cool.

If you find the navigation slightly difficult, here's what to do - click on languages on their main page, or click on this link. Then select the language you want to learn and thats it! you're all set to go!

(trust me omniglot is really, really cool)

Other than this, you can use Classcentral. Just search up your language and you'll find a bunch of courses that you can use to learn the language. It's really helpful. Bonus point - you can search anything there, it has links to courses for everything!

Or, if you prefer books, you can use Z-lib to find a relevant book for the language you wanna learn!

That's all i found, if there's anything I left out, or some language that you cannot find, here, feel free to ask me to add some more resources!

please inform me if any of the links are broken

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic, my coffees with current and ex-students (entrepreneurs, as well as employees early in their careers) have gone virtual. Pre-pandemic these coffees were usually about what startup to join or how to find product/market fit. Though in the last month, even through Zoom I could sense they were struggling with a much weightier problem. The common theme in these calls were that many of them were finding this crisis to be an existential wakeup call. “My job feels pretty meaningless in the big picture of what matters. I’m thinking about what happens when I can go back to work. I’m no longer sure my current career path is what I want to do. How do I figure it out?”

Here’s what I’ve told them.

In a Crisis – An Opportunity to Reflect If you’re still in school, or early in your career, you thought you would graduate into a strong economy and the road ahead had plenty of opportunities. That world is gone and perhaps not returning for a year or more. Economies across the world are in a freefall. As unemployment in the U.S. passes 15%, the lights are going off in companies, and we won’t see them back on for a long time. Some industries will never be the same. Internships and summer work may be gone, too.

But every crisis brings an opportunity. In this case, to reassess one’s life and ask: How do I want to use my time when the world recovers?

What I suggested was, that the economic disruption caused by the virus and the recession that will follow is one of those rare opportunities to consider a change, one that could make your own life more meaningful, allow you to make an impact, and gain more than just a salary from your work. Perhaps instead of working for the latest social media or ecommerce company or in retail or travel or hospitality, you might want to make people live healthier, longer and more productive lives.

I pointed out that if you’re coming out of school or early in your career you have an edge –  You have the most flexibility to reevaluate you trajectory. You could consider alternate vocations – medical research or joining a startup in therapeutics, diagnostics, medical devices, or digital health (mobile health, health IT, wearable devices, telemedicine, and personalized medicine). Or become an EMT, doctor or nurse.  Or consider the impact remote learning has had in the pandemic. How can you make it better and more effective? What are ways you might help to strengthen organizations that help those less able and less fortunate?

Here are the steps you can take to get started: Use the customer discovery methodology to search for new careers.

Start by doing some reading and research, looking to the leading publications in the field you’re interested in learning more about. News sources for Digital Health and Life Sciences are different from software/hardware blogs such as Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc.

If you’re interested in learning more about a career in Life Sciences, start reading:

Medgadget– medical technology blog

MobiHealth News

Science Daily – medical research news

NEJM Frontiers in Medicine – New England Journal of Medicine

FierceHealthIT, FierceBiotech, FierceMedtech

Medcity News – news about the business of healthcare innovation

MDDI+QMED – Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry

In the Pipeline – commentary on drug discovery and the pharma industry

Xconomy – news and trends in life science

CBInsights – Startups in health

Reddit – search for topics of interest

If you’re thinking about educational technology start by reading EdSurge

And if you’re thinking about getting involved in social entrepreneurship, read The Stanford Social Innovation Review as well as the social entrepreneurship sections of publications like Entrepreneur, Inc., Fast Company and Forbes.

Get out of the building (virtually) and talk to people in the professions you’re interested in. (People on the front-line of the Covid-19 fight (e.g. first responders, health care workers) might be otherwise engaged, but others in the field may be available to chat.) Learn about the job, whether they enjoy it and how you can get on that career track.

Get out of the building physically. If possible, volunteer for some front-line activities. Think about internships in the new fields you’re exploring.

If you’re thinking of starting a company, get to know the VC’s. They are different depending on the type of startup you’re building. Unlike in the 20th century where most VC’s financed hardware, software and life sciences, today therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices, are funded via VC firms that specialize in only those domains. Digital health crosses the boundaries and may be founded by all types of firms. Get to know who they are.

Some of the Life Science VC blogs and podcasts:

Rock Health News – digital health VC news

LifeSciVC – Bruce Booth Atlas Ventures

A Healthy Dose – Bessemer Partners Podcast

The Long Run – Biotech Podcast

For edtech the VC firm to know is Reach Capital

Inexpensively pivot your education into a new field. An online education could be a viable alternative to expensive college debt. Coursera, EdX and ClassCentral have hundreds of on-line classes in medicine, health and related fields. Accredited universities also offer online programs (see here.) If you’re in school, take some classes outside your existing major (example here.)

My advice in all of these conversations? Carpe Diem – seize the day.

Now is the time to ask: Is my work relevant?  Am I living the life I really wanted? Does the pandemic change the weighting of what’s important?

Make your life extraordinary.

Lessons Learned

Your career will only last for 14,000 days

If you’re still in school, reconsider your major or where you thought it was going to take you

If you’re early in your career, now is the time to consider what it would take to make a pivot

In the end, the measure of your life will not be money or time. It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. In the end, our report-card will be whether we left the world a better place.

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Estudar em uma universidade da Ivy League pode ser mais simples do que você imagina. A plataforma Classcentral está disponibilizando quase 500 cursos online gratuitos de universidades como Harvard, Princeton, Yale e Columbia, que podem ser realizados da sua casa. Do total, 400 deles oferecem certificado.

O que o Classcentral faz na verdade é centralizar, em uma única página, todos os cursos que essas instituições disponibilizam de maneira online e gratuita em diversas plataformas. Alguns deles são ministrados por em sites comuns, como edX e Coursera. Outros usam sistemas mais específicos, como Kadenze e Canvas Network. Em todos os casos, no entanto, é possível realizar os cursos pela internet e sem custo.

Neste link, é possível visualizar a lista completa de cursos. No menu do lado esquerdo, o usuário também pode filtrar por temas como “Negócios”, “Humanidades”, “Ciências Sociais” e “Saúde e Medicina”, entre outros. Também é possível ordenar os cursos por ordem alfabética, avaliação dos usuários ou data de início. Todos os cursos são ministrados em inglês, embora alguns ofereçam também opção de legendas em português.

Como acessar os cursos online gratuitos

Como os cursos são oferecidos por plataformas diferentes, o acesso a cada uma delas é diferente também. De maneira geral, é necessário realizar um cadastro na plataforma (ou linkar sua conta do Google ou Facebook à plataforma) e depois se “matricular” no curso (o que envolve basicamente clicar num botão para começar a ter acesso ao conteúdo).

A maioria dos cursos são self-paced, o que significa que eles podem ser realizados a qualquer momento, no ritmo que o estudante preferir. Alguns deles, no entanto, têm datas específicas de início, e nesse caso o aluno precisa realizar sua “matrícula” antes dessa data para não perder nenhum conteúdo.

Ao clicar em qualquer um dos cursos, o usuário pode ver uma breve descrição do seu conteúdo e informações como sua duração. Essa duração, no caso dos cursos self-paced, é estimada com um número de horas que o aluno deve dedicar, por semana, ao curso, e com o número de semanas que o curso deve durar caso o aluno cumpra essas horas.

É importante notar que embora todos os cursos sejam gratuitos e online, cada um deles é voltado para estudantes com conhecimentos prévios diferentes. Em alguns casos, pode ser necessário já ter uma boa base em alguma área para poder aproveitar adequadamente o conteúdo do curso. No entanto, como é possível se matricular sem custo, vale a pena arriscar participar de um curso mesmo que seu conteúdo pareça estar fora da sua área de especialização.

Este artigo foi originalmente publicado no Estudar Fora, uma iniciativa da Fundação Estudar que ajuda jovens brasileiros a alcançarem o sonho de estudar no exterior

Conheça outros cursos gratuitos oferecidos por universidades ou sites educacionais:

Veja também: 40 sites que oferecem cursos online gratuitos para ocupar a mente na quarentena

E mais plataformas que liberaram seus conteúdos ou recursos de forma gratuita:

Veja também: Estude em casa: plataformas de educação liberam conteúdos de graça

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450 cursos online gratuitos das melhores universidades do mundo

Estudar em uma universidade da Ivy League pode ser mais simples do que você imagina. A plataforma Classcentral está disponibilizando quase 500 cursos online gratuitos de universidades como Harvard, Princeton, Yale e Columbia, que podem ser realizados da sua casa. Do total, 400 deles oferecem certificado.

O que o Classcentral faz na verdade é centralizar, em uma única página, todos os cursos que essas instituições disponibilizam de maneira online e gratuita em diversas plataformas. Alguns deles são ministrados por em sites comuns, como edX e Coursera. Outros usam sistemas mais específicos, como Kadenze e Canvas Network. Em todos os casos, no entanto, é possível realizar os cursos pela internet e sem custo.

Neste link, é possível visualizar a lista completa de cursos. No menu do lado esquerdo, o usuário também pode filtrar por temas como “Negócios”, “Humanidades”, “Ciências Sociais” e “Saúde e Medicina”, entre outros. Também é possível ordenar os cursos por ordem alfabética, avaliação dos usuários ou data de início. Todos os cursos são ministrados em inglês, embora alguns ofereçam também opção de legendas em português.

Como acessar os cursos online gratuitos

Como os cursos são oferecidos por plataformas diferentes, o acesso a cada uma delas é diferente também. De maneira geral, é necessário realizar um cadastro na plataforma (ou linkar sua conta do Google ou Facebook à plataforma) e depois se “matricular” no curso (o que envolve basicamente clicar num botão para começar a ter acesso ao conteúdo).

A maioria dos cursos são self-paced, o que significa que eles podem ser realizados a qualquer momento, no ritmo que o estudante preferir. Alguns deles, no entanto, têm datas específicas de início, e nesse caso o aluno precisa realizar sua “matrícula” antes dessa data para não perder nenhum conteúdo.

Ao clicar em qualquer um dos cursos, o usuário pode ver uma breve descrição do seu conteúdo e informações como sua duração. Essa duração, no caso dos cursos self-paced, é estimada com um número de horas que o aluno deve dedicar, por semana, ao curso, e com o número de semanas que o curso deve durar caso o aluno cumpra essas horas.

É importante notar que embora todos os cursos sejam gratuitos e online, cada um deles é voltado para estudantes com conhecimentos prévios diferentes. Em alguns casos, pode ser necessário já ter uma boa base em alguma área para poder aproveitar adequadamente o conteúdo do curso. No entanto, como é possível se matricular sem custo, vale a pena arriscar participar de um curso mesmo que seu conteúdo pareça estar fora da sua área de especialização.

Este artigo foi originalmente publicado no Estudar Fora, uma iniciativa da Fundação Estudar que ajuda jovens brasileiros a alcançarem o sonho de estudar no exterior

Conheça outros cursos gratuitos oferecidos por universidades ou sites educacionais:

Veja também: 40 sites que oferecem cursos online gratuitos para ocupar a mente na quarentena

E mais plataformas que liberaram seus conteúdos ou recursos de forma gratuita:

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Faça de casa mais de 450 cursos gratuitos de universidades da Ivy League

Estudar em uma universidade da Ivy League pode ser mais simples do que você imagina. A plataforma Classcentral está disponibilizando quase 500 cursos online gratuitos de universidades da Ivy League (como Harvard, Princeton, Yale e Columbia) que podem ser realizados da sua casa. Do total, 400 deles oferecem certificado.

O que o Classcentral faz na verdade é centralizar, em uma única página, todos os cursos que essas instituições disponibilizam de maneira online e gratuita em diversas plataformas. Alguns deles são ministrados por em sites comuns, como edX e Coursera. Outros usam sistemas mais específicos, como Kadenze e Canvas Network. Em todos os casos, no entanto, é possível realizar os cursos pela internet e sem custo.

Neste link, é possível visualizar a lista completa de cursos. No menu do lado esquerdo, o usuário também pode filtrar por temas como “Negócios”, “Humanidades”, “Ciências Sociais” e “Saúde e Medicina”, entre outros. Também é possível ordenar os cursos por ordem alfabética, avaliação dos usuários ou data de início. Todos os cursos são ministrados em inglês, embora alguns ofereçam também opção de legendas em português.

Como acessar os cursos online gratuitos

Como os cursos são oferecidos por plataformas diferentes, o acesso a cada uma delas é diferente também. De maneira geral, é necessário realizar um cadastro na plataforma (ou linkar sua conta do Google ou Facebook à plataforma) e depois se “matricular” no curso (o que envolve basicamente clicar num botão para começar a ter acesso ao conteúdo).

A maioria dos cursos são self-paced, o que significa que eles podem ser realizados a qualquer momento, no ritmo que o estudante preferir. Alguns deles, no entanto, têm datas específicas de início, e nesse caso o aluno precisa realizar sua “matrícula” antes dessa data para não perder nenhum conteúdo.

Ao clicar em qualquer um dos cursos, o usuário pode ver uma breve descrição do seu conteúdo e informações como sua duração. Essa “duração”, no caso dos cursos self-paced, é estimada com um número de horas que o aluno deve dedicar, por semana, ao curso, e com o número de semanas que o curso deve durar caso o aluno cumpra essas horas.

É importante notar que embora todos os cursos sejam gratuitos e online, cada um deles é voltado para estudantes com conhecimentos prévios diferentes. Em alguns casos, pode ser necessário já ter uma boa base em alguma área para poder aproveitar adequadamente o conteúdo do curso. No entanto, como é possível se matricular sem custo, vale a pena arriscar participar de um curso mesmo que seu conteúdo pareça estar fora da sua área de especialização.

Sugestões de cursos

Como pode ser difícil escolher entre quase 500 cursos diferentes, fizemos abaixo uma seleção de cursos que podem ser interessantes para o maior número possível de leitores. Escolhemos apenas alguns, mas recomendamos a todos que explorem o catálogo para encontrar mais opções. Confira:

Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (part 1)

O título desse cursos (“Ciência e culinária: da alta cozinha à ciência de materiais suaves) já deve dizer tudo que você precisa saber sobre ele. O curso faz a ponte entre alguns princípios científicos e suas aplicações à gastronomia, falando sobre como determinadas moléculas influenciam o sabor dos alimentos e qual o papel do calor na culinária. A cada semana, o curso também sugere uma receita para aplicar os conhecimentos adquiridos. É uma boa maneira de enriquecer seu repertório na cozinha com conhecimentos de Harvard.

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”)

Um dos cursos com melhor avaliação dentre os disponíveis no catálogo da Classcentral, o curso de Modern & Contemporary American Poetry da Universidade de Pennsylvania (conhecido como “ModPo” pelos alunos) não é só para os amantes da poesia. É também uma ótima maneira de ampliar seu vocabulário em inglês e seu entendimento textual nessa língua, por meio de obras consagradas da poesia do último século, desde Walt Whitman até os poetas beat, como Allen Ginsburg. E o curso inclui provas e trabalhos para garantir seu aprendizado.

The Engineering of Structures Around Us

Um curso da Dartmouth de engenharia para não-engenheiros (embora engenheiros também sejam benvindos). Chamado de “A Engenharia das Estruturas ao Redor de Nós”, ele usa objetos familiares (desde estruturas naturais e prédios até móveis e objetos) para explicar princípios básicos da engenharia, tais como: como cordas e cabos resistem a tensão, como colunas e arcos sustentam estruturas, e como paredes fazem casas parar em pé. Ideal para quem já se arriscou sem sucesso em áreas como marcenaria.

Global History of Capitalism

Para os amantes de História, esse curso de Princeton pode ser uma boa escolha. Ele explora a história do capitalismo acima de narrativas simplistas que exageram a prosperidade que ele proporciona ou distorcem seus lados mais obscuros. O curso aborda temas como a relação do capitalismo com globalização, por que alguns países se desenvolvem e outros não, e se há uma tensão inerente entre o capitalismo e temas como meio ambiente e democracia representativa.

Este texto foi originalmente publicado no portal Estudar Fora, da Fundação Estudar, parceira do Guia do Estudante. 

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A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. The change has helped companies that provide these courses find a business model, but something crucial has been lost for students taking the courses.

One important benefit of the first MOOCs was that they started at fixed times, like traditional college courses, which meant that large numbers of people were sharing an experience and posting questions and answers to forums. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). As a result the forums are far less vibrant and informative than they were in the early days.

Pat Bowden, a learner who plans to complete 100 MOOCs (she has finished 86 courses so far), puts it this way: “To me, there seems to be a growing trend for students to simply post their own thoughts on the topic without engaging with others’ comments."

That’s been my experience as well, as someone who took one of the first MOOCs in 2011 and now watches these courses closely as the founder of Class Central, a place to keep track of the free university courses. In many ways, Massive Open Online Courses are no longer as massive.

Many learners have welcomed these changes as the content is available almost all the time.

Poll: Which courses do you prefer? 1. Self paced (always open) 2. Session based (with start dates and deadlines)

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But this means that instead of tens of thousands of people learning together as part of a shared experience, everybody is learning at their own pace in significantly smaller cohorts. The on-demand MOOC trend has led to a drastic reduction in forum activity within MOOC cohorts. At one point Coursera boasted about a average forum response time of 22 minutes; that’s no longer the case.

The push for monetization hasn’t helped build community. Over time the free components of MOOCs have gradually been reduced, making these courses less appealing to many in their initial audience.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

The MOOC Semester

If providers of these online courses want to make MOOCs massive again, they will need to go back to the characteristics that made them popular in the first place: semi-synchronous, instructor led and sufficiently hyped.

Imagine that once or twice a year MOOC providers published a limited catalog of courses that are instructor-led (meaning that professors play an active role in running the courses). These courses would have a fixed schedule, and have a start date and end date with some soft-deadlines through the course. The goal would be to get everybody moving at a similar pace.

In the early days, course videos were created as the course progressed, sometimes drawing on student feedback. As a course participant, this really made me feel part of something larger and helped me maintain my enthusiasm throughout the course.

Al Filreis, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who teaches a MOOC called Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (or ModPo),offers a synchronous version of his class every fall. Fileris goes even further and re-shoots his videos.

Fileris gave a fiery keynote speech at Learning With MOOCs conference in 2015 where he laid out his approach on how to make the MOOC feel like a residential-college experience. One way ModPo achieves this is by being extremely responsive. Every comment in the MOOC gets a response within a few hours, but usually within a few minutes.

The results are there to see: ModPo is one of the highest rated MOOCs of all time according to Class Central users. Since the course first launched in 2012, many students have finished ModPo multiple times.

Even Fileris admits that the approach he proposes might require too much time and attention from MOOC instructors. But he suggests trying things like weekly live interactive webcasts, office hours and bringing in community TA’s who can help engage the community.

Having talked with multiple instructors over the last few years, I believe many would be willing to jump on this opportunity. Providers can make the MOOC Semester an opt-in event.

Finally, sufficient hype. I think that the way to get people excited about MOOCs again is to offer free certificates. I suggest offering free certificates during a MOOC Semester to anyone who completes all the course requirements by a certain date. Those who don’t meet the deadline could pay an upgrade fee and earn the certificate.

MOOC providers abandoned free certificates because they were looking for a sustainable business model. Reintroducing them could reignite some of the enthusiasm MOOCs initially generated. The potential loss in revenue from free certificates would be offset by the marketing benefits of reaching more users.

Early this year I published an article on Medium which listed 250 Ivy League MOOCs. That article went viral and attracted 2.5 million views, showing that there is still a tremendous appetite for online courses taught by universities.

A MOOC Semester with free certificates can tap into this appetite. If multiple MOOC providers got together and coordinated their PR efforts, it would result in similar viral articles in different parts of the world.

MOOC providers have seen this hype before and benefited from it. In Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller’s own words: “We reached 20 million learners with minimal marketing costs, largely because of the PR cycle around us.” A MOOC semester can recreate this PR cycle, bring in new learners, as well as engage old learners who might have fallen of the MOOC bandwagon.

In her TED talk in 2012, Kohler explained why the Coursera courses were different than previous online courses—it was a real classroom with real homework assignments, real grades and real deadlines. These days, most MOOCs don’t feel like a real classroom. The MOOC Semester could fix that.

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Community News for Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017

Community News for Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017

ILIONCentral Valleyto induct firstHall of Fame classCentral Valley Central School District will induct eight Ilion and Mohawk alumni as the inaugural class of the district’s Hall of Fame at a luncheon at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at Francesca’s Banquet Hall, 144 E. Main St.The district will permanently display a plaque honoring each person on the Hall of Fame wall at Central […] Source: OD

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Udacity Official Declares MOOCs ‘Dead’ (Though the Company Still Offers Them)

Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses). But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs).

It was Udacity vice president Clarissa Shen who this week said “they are dead,” when talking about MOOCs in an interview with The Economic Times in India. “MOOCs are a failed product, at least for the goals we had set for ourselves,” she told the newspaper. “Our mission is to bring relevant education which advances people in careers and socio-economic activities, and MOOCs aren't the way.”

Udacity’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, famously announced a “pivot” away from MOOCs back in 2013, and since then the company has focused its energies on paid sequences of courses called “nanodegrees” that it produces in cooperation with large tech employers. But it has continued to offer free versions of its course videos for those who don’t want or need a certificate of completion.

In an e-mail interview with EdSurge this week, Shen said that her statement was not meant as an announcement of a new strategy for Udacity. “It’s not a comment on our business model, but on what we aim for as success metrics with our students,” she said. “As you can see on our site, free content is still available.”

Focus on Projects

Shen stressed that the problem with the old MOOC model is a focus on video libraries for teaching. She said the strength of the nanodegree program is that students are required to complete projects. “We care about completion rates, projects student build, and ultimately career readiness,” she said. “MOOCs have been too content-only focused and not a model that engages our students deeply. They are an improvement on pure content libraries when done well, but as a product not what we felt achieved success for our students and industry partners.”

Asked whether the company might phase out free courses, she said that the company’s latest programs continue to include free versions. “There is no change there,” she added.

Dhawal Shah, co-founder of Class Central, which tracks MOOCs, says that “it’s plausible” that the company would move away from making new courses free at some point. “Free courses are a marketing channel to feed learners into the paid programs,” he said in an e-mail interview. “But Udacity is able to generate huge amounts of press at a regular basis by launching nanodegrees like the Self-Driving Car Nanodegree or the recently announced Flying Car nanodegree. So the free courses might not provide the same returns as they did early on.”

Shah argues that Udacity and other providers of large-scale online course have gradually created more and more paid services, and made it harder for students to find their free offerings.

The declaration that free online courses can’t solve education’s problems comes as no surprise to many traditional educators. “The roots of Udacity’s failure are in the word ‘product’ and their belief that an educational ‘product’ could possibly transform education,” argued John Warner, a blogger for Inside Higher Education, in a post this week.

Meanwhile, Udacity's pivot to professional education has brought the company commercial success. "Whatever Udacity is doing, it seems to be working,” wrote Shah in a blog post on ClassCentral earlier this month. "There are now over 18,000 Nanodegree graduates. Udacity is also on track to double its revenues."

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