by Columbia Online | Sep 20, 2017 | Announcements
Research in Mandarin Chinese phonology and pronunciation shows that adult learners of Chinese have the greatest difficulty with using four tones to differentiate otherwise homophonous syllables. The traditional pedagogical intervention (i.e. error correction) has been...
by Columbia Online | Sep 14, 2017 | Announcements
Watch a video interview with Professor Sarah Hansen on her experience redesigning a general laboratory course. Sarah Hansen, Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry, faced a teaching challenge in her General Laboratory course. Every student came to class with...
by Columbia Online | Sep 5, 2017 | Announcements
On September 27, 2017, the Columbia Business School and the Center for Teaching and Learning will launch a new MOOC (massive open online course) professional certificate program Corporate Finance on the edX platform. The courses are free and open to all with an...
by Columbia Online | Aug 23, 2017 | Announcements
Columbia University’s new Center for Veteran Transition and Integration has designed a unique MOOC (massive open online course) version of its University Studies course specifically to help veterans transition smoothly from military service to higher education, and...
by Columbia Online | Aug 22, 2017 | Announcements
Columbia’s new Center for Veterans Transition and Integration (CVTI) is proud to announce the launch of an online course for Student Veterans starting on September 6th: University Studies for Student Veterans. This course, designed in collaboration with...
by Columbia Online | Jul 7, 2017 | Announcements
“Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, a woman is working on a ‘Vengeance’ dive bomber,” Nashville, Tennessee, 1943. One of the founders of the field of women’s history, Alice Kessler-Harris earned her Ph.D. in the late 1960s and then realized that history books...
by Columbia Online | Jun 26, 2017 | Announcements
MicroMasters in Business Analytics Program on edX is launching today, June 26, 2017. About the course Columbia’s MicroMasters program in Business Analytics will empower learners with the skills, insights and understanding to improve business performance using data,...
by Columbia Online | Jun 14, 2017 | Announcements
The Office of the Provost has announced the winners of the second round of the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) request for proposals. Five projects have been awarded grants to produce MOOCs along with in-kind support from the Columbia Center for Teaching and...
by Columbia Online | Jun 5, 2017 | Announcements
Ibrahim S Odeh, Founding Director in Construction Management at Columbia University and Santiago Castagnino from Boston Consulting Group, recently had a conversation with Michael Buechler from World Economic Forum. They discussed how the construction industry can...
by Columbia Online | May 31, 2017 | Announcements
Part two of the Women Have Always Worked course on edX is launching today, May 31, 2017. About the course As we see American women coming into positions of unprecedented economic and political power, we start to wonder: why now? The Women Have Always Worked MOOC,...