The powerful combination of cell phones, text messaging, instant messaging and e-mail means that Net Generation students are always mid-conversation with one or more friends either online, in person or both at the same time. With edX, you can choose a class like David J. Malan’s wildly popular “CS50 Introduction to Computer Science” and watch every lecture online, complete with graded homework assignments and exams, and walk away with a marketable new skill and a whole new perspective on the art of programming. EdX offers 29 high school courses like AP biology, AP computer science, AP language and composition, and introductory classes in computer science and psychology. First came for-profit ventures like Udacity and Coursera, then MIT and Harvard partnered in 2012 to create edX, a nonprofit organization offering more than 200 free online classes from more than 45 partner universities in six core areas: business management, computer science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and statistics and data analysis.
Social bookmarks – Add friends and keep track of their activities on Digg through your own profile page. You can also add a “Digg this” button to your own blog posts so your readers can instantly submit one of your stories to Digg. Browse for stories within the Digg “Upcoming Stories” queue, and let Digg know which stories you like by clicking the “Digg” button to the left of each story title. When a story gets enough reports, or “buries,” it disappears from the Digg queue and only appears in search results and user profiles. They’ve been Dugg by enough users to get promoted to the homepage. It’ll either get enough Diggs to move to the homepage or eventually disappear if it doesn’t get enough Diggs or it gets reported by multiple users. Siebert. You are going to get that offer because the employer believes you can solve his problems, and the ability to empathize makes you more aware of and sensitive to the problems of others. You can watch as stories are submitted, promoted, Dugg and reported. Even at HowStuffWorks, where our servers can handle the traffic, we can easily tell when we’ve been Dugg. While that’s not accurate anymore (the F-150 can haul up to an estimated 2,300 pounds), the numbers separate “light-duty” trucks from “heavy-duty” trucks (the higher the number, the more it can handle).
While it won’t always happen, dumping water on an electrical fire has a high chance of shocking someone, which is why those fires should be dealt with using other methods. While it’s true that American inventor Ralph Morris based his idea for electric Christmas lights on a telephone switchboard in 1908, it was actually an associate of Thomas Edison’s who was responsible for the first Christmas tree to be lit up using electricity. While the people driving their four-wheeled vehicles alongside them on the highway have to follow the law, trucks are a special class of vehicles, and, as such, there are additional rules and regulations their drivers must follow. While some might call the premise revolutionary, the basic functions of the Web site itself are pretty simple and intuitive. Whether you need to launch a new product, run a meeting with participants in multiple locations, or provide training to off-site employees, hosting a Web conference may be the best solution. Another potentially lucrative arena for edX is corporate training. Korn, Melissa. “Corporate Training Gets an Online Refresh.” The Wall Street Journal.
For one thing, edX courses have proven wildly successful at registering students, but far less successful at holding their attention. SiteGround is simply one of the best hosting providers, with free domain names, free SSL and lightning-fast page loading speed. The edX video player is tricked out with some cool features, including playback speed controls (from half-speed slo-mo to double-time) and a scrolling transcript of everything the professor is saying. The meat of edX courses is video; professionally produced clips complete with graphics and special effects delivered by star professors at each university. But that was before college professors began protesting the embrace of MOOCs as a ploy to trim faculty and cut public university funding. But I can also imagine million of people not like me at all, who see MOOCs like edX as a portal to untold opportunities. For their sake, I hope hundreds of thousands of edX fantasies come true.