We just flipped another page of the calendar… Here in the US, daylight savings time ends when we turn the clocks back this weekend, so it’s an extra hour of sleep for us Today’s roundup features some thoughts on bitcoin, brain-hacking, multitasking, and more Bitcoin Turns 10: Still Not All Grown Up Happy...
What’s on tap for the weekend Last-minute Halloween preparations perhaps Check out the roundup before you head off to your favorite haunts She’s Not Mad She’s Just Not Using Exclamation Points The exclamation point is the rare punctuation symbol that can provoke strong reactions among people who are...
Udemy instructor Bonnie Schulkin has always learned by teaching As a Udemy student looking, to no avail, for a React Testing course, she naturally decided to learn the subject by creating a Udemy course Read more below about Bonnie's experience teaching online for the first time! Name: Bonnie...
Hope everyone out there had a great week In today’s roundup, we pay tribute to a software pioneer, a prize-winner of humble means, an icon of children’s education, and a different kind of teacher This Robot Co-Taught A Course At West Point Bina48 may look familiar if you’re a longtime roundup reader We...
Thirty-five thousand instructors teach on Udemy That’s a lot of instructors That’s a lot of people with expertise, knowledge, and stories under their belts We want to hear more about ‘em So, we are launching a new blog series featuring instructor profiles, starting with four-course instructor Isaac Rudansky...
Another busy week around here Today we’re feeling the afterglow from the Udemy for Business People Innovators Summit, which drew a big crowd of learning & development professionals to SF for a day of inspirational content and knowledge-sharing Meanwhile, the news goes on! The Coders Programming Themselves Out...
Talking up your skills -- and how you have applied them -- can be a good indicator of your value as an employee As companies compete for talent at a time of historically low unemployment, they're opening up their doors to more non-traditional candidates That includes broadening the hiring pool to include...
Greetings, roundup readers Fair warning, this week’s edition is heavy on artificial intelligence and robots They’re making art, monitoring health, making space history, and hiring job candidates What could possibly go wrong AI-Produced Artwork Is Moving From The Fringes Into The High Art World Auction house...
This week’s highlight was the release of new original research in our Udemy In Depth series More about that at the end of the roundup! In China, Retired People Are Queuing Up To Go Back To University China’s over-60 population is exploding, and now the government is making a big investment in their education...
Udemy’s back with another report on how employees are feeling about the world of work and their place in it In response to our latest survey, employees overall rated their experience as positive, but some groups feel they receive less support and career development and others perceive age and gender biases...
There’s not much to say about today’s roundup except: flying cars Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading Here’s What Experts Say Audiobooks are a great diversion while you sit behind the wheel or clean the house, but some wonder whether reading comprehension suffers when people aren’t looking at the...
What’s on tap for the weekend Read the roundup, then go do something nice for yourself To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New We know from our own research that the modern worker is stressed out Now, a bunch of academics have come up with what we think is the perfect remedy: focusing on learning as a...
