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Coursera Launches Course Builder: Organizations Can Now Quickly Create and Launch Custom Courses at Scale

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By Shravan Goli In a fast-changing market, organizations will need to create, update, and deploy learning resources that keep pace with the rate of change. Authors can seamlessly blend modules from participating world-class industry and academic partners on Coursera with content from experts in their own organization.

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Using Generative AI to “Hack Time” for Implementing Real-World Projects

Faculty Focus

We tested this theory by working with a client, Artists Alliance Incorporated, a non-profit arts organization in New York City, who needed to rebuild its web presence. In that article, we made a case for enabling real-world clients as partner educators.

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Hewlett Foundation Awards $20M to Diversify Cybersecurity Field

Insight Into Diversity

Additionally, a 2019 report by the same organization, “ Women in Cybersecurity ,” found that women hold only 24 percent of cybersecurity positions. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is awarding $20 million in grants to four academic institutions that serve diverse student populations.

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UPenn’s ‘Eidos’ Project Tackles LGBTQ+ Health Inequity, Discrimination

Insight Into Diversity

Operating like a consulting agency, Eidos, which UPenn calls “a first-of-its-kind academic social entrepreneurship lab,” engages students and faculty across disciplines and from different UPenn schools, outside businesses, and organizations to work together and offer diverse perspectives aimed at improving LGBTQ+ health initiatives.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Those are the kinds of organizations that I do best in, and I regret that this was not one of them.” It can foster important relationships at the state and federal levels, with other institutions, with friends and donors, and with like-minded organizations that might be new partners to us.

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Why Can’t Your Real-World Project Live in the Real World?

Faculty Focus

Jodi’s comments put this into perspective: I felt like the classes never quite got there because there couldn’t possibly have been enough time for the students to learn the organization and for us to think through precisely what we needed. The responsibility of the partner, as Jodi describes, should become “more high-level.”

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Career Talk: Our Employees Share 4 Steps to Career Advancement 

Today's Learner

Pursuing an Associate of Science degree in Business Administration and currently working towards a bachelors degree in business administration with a focus on management , Shiela faced and still faces the challenge of balancing full-time work and learning. Careful organization continues to play a key role in managing her workload.