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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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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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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one. For more than a decade, student interest and enrollments in these and adjacent fields have been increasing exponentially at the university.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

Faculty Focus

Educational organizations and universities developed quality indicators to guide in the adoption of web tools. Those tools were not just used to develop and deliver instruction, they became useful to students for their own course projects, assignments, and assessments. References ‘AI and Web3: How Are They Related? Rather Labs Careers’.