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Columbia Engineering to Offer Online High School Coding Academy
This summer, Columbia Engineering and the University of Pennsylvania College of Liberal and Professional Studies are offering the first online coding boot camps for high school students in partnership with Trilogy Education, a brand of 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU)....
Online Education in the New Normal with Anant Agarwal, edX CEO
On April 28, 2020, edX CEO and MIT Professor, Anant Agarwal, reflected on online education in the new normal of COVID-19. He discussed what has already changed and what will change in the coming months, and shared insights around how this both impacts and expedites his vision for the future of modular education.
Addressing the Skills Shortage at Scale
On January 31st, Pierre Dubuc, co-founder and CEO of OpenClassrooms, discussed OpenClassroom’s mission to make quality education and career advancement more accessible and affordable.
2U and the Future of Online Education
On October 17th, 2019, Chip Paucek, co-founder and CEO of 2U, Inc., discussed 2U’s vision for online education and the future of higher education, as part of the Provost’s Conversations on Online Learning series.
Colleges Need to Build Digital Quads to Support Social Learning for Online Students
Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Soulaymane Kachani and Assistant Vice Provost for Online Education Sandesh Tuladhar recently published an article about supporting social learning for online students. Colleges are a hub for social learning,...
New MOOC: Experimental Foundations of Sound Design
Columbia University has released Experimental Foundations of Sound Design with Professor Seth Cluett on Kadenze. This is Columbia's first course offered through Kadenze, and learners can audit the course for free! Premium Kadenze users can access exclusive...
Provost’s Conversations on Online Learning
View all the previous PCoOL talks here