Remove Blog Remove Computer Science Remove History Remove Technology
article thumbnail

How to Ask Your Employer to Pay for Your Degree

Coursera blog

For example, if you are a software developer working in the financial technology sector, your employer may not be open to funding an art history degree. They may, however, consider reimbursing you for master’s programs in cybersecurity, computer science, or related areas.

Degree 98
article thumbnail

Announcing 8 degrees, 3 Professional Certificates, and a growing catalog of generative AI content to help learners build skills of the future 

Coursera blog

Universities such as Anáhuac University Network (Red de Universidad Anáhuac) , Ball State University , Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) , London Business School , and S.P. Graduates will be prepared for data science careers in business or industry. The first cohorts are expected to begin in August 2023.

Degree 52
university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

In the Blink of an AI: Shifting Assessments in a ChatGPT World

Today's Learner

At this point in our AI history, it behooves us as faculty to get creative with assessment, to either switch up text-based assignments or to find new non-textual ways of assessment. Coding challenge and debugging: For computer science students, they can work on coding challenges with ChatGPT acting as a virtual coding partner.

article thumbnail

Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

Faculty 129
article thumbnail

Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Beyond Transfer Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students , the largest group in the program's history.

College 74
article thumbnail

Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

To promote teaching innovation, institutions establish a teaching center and an instructional design and educational technology center. A supplemental or alternative strategy is to give instructors access to an instructional designer or to a graduate student or advanced undergraduate well versed in instructional technology.

article thumbnail

What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I’ve never really trusted my powers of prediction, but recent weeks have seriously eroded any confidence in my ability to forecast the future. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Some recent prophecies have proven particularly wrongheaded.