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Advancing To A New Position After Earning A Professional Certificate: Meet Christian

Published on: Jul 31, 2018 by 2480 views No Comments
Posted in: Learner Stories

We recently talked with Christian who completed the Professional Certificate program in Six Sigma and Lean from Technische Universität München (TUM) on edX. He is a materials scientist with advanced degrees from TU Damstadt, Chalmers and INP Grenoble. This is what he told us about his experience learning on edX: What program did you take on edX, and what were your goals in taking it?...

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Lifelong Learning and Career Advancement on edX: Meet Andreas

Published on: Jun 25, 2018 by 2455 views No Comments
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We recently talked with Andreas who completed the MicroMasters program in Managing Technology and Innovation from RWTH Aachen University on edX. Here’s what Andreas had to say about his experience earning his MicroMasters credential: How did you first learn about edX? I first read about edX in the MIT Technology Review magazine back in 2014. After hearing about it, I signed up. I’ve been an...

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EdX Partners Top 2019 QS University Rankings

Published on: Jun 08, 2018 by 3727 views 1 Comment
Posted in: Learner News

The 2019 QS World University Rankings list were released last week, and we are very excited to announce that seven of the top 10 universities in the world are edX partners! EdX founding universities MIT and Harvard University took spots in the top three on the list, with edX partners Caltech, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Chicago and ETH Zurich also appearing in the...

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EdX Supports Kiron in Providing High-Quality Curricula to Refugees Worldwide

Published on: Nov 01, 2017 by 2470 views No Comments
Posted in: Learner News

It has been a little over a year since Kiron Open Higher Education and edX partnered to provide refugees worldwide with access to quality higher education. Through the partnership, edX provides Kiron students the opportunity to obtain verified certificates for specific edX courses, entirely free of charge. Together, Kiron and edX are opening the door to higher education so that refugees can unlock their full...

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Using Big Data, Analytics & Statistics to Advance his Career: Meet, Nilaish

Published on: Oct 27, 2017 by 4098 views No Comments
Posted in: Learner Stories

I found edX, and Microsoft’s Data Science Essentials course while researching online certification courses on data science. As a Ph.D. candidate, I regularly dive into a lot of research and absolutely loved the skill set taught through the Data Science Essentials course. The videos provided were interactive, well-structured and convenient. Through this course, I learned about R Studio & Azure ML – a powerful tool for...

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Realizing Her Dream of Becoming a Certified Teacher: Meet, Jess

Published on: Oct 12, 2017 by 3189 views 2 Comments
Posted in: Learner Stories

As a middle school teacher, I need to be up to date on all of the subject matter that I am teaching to my students. However, once you’re out of grade school yourself, that material can be easy to forget! I was hired at my current school with a three year intern license, and was recently at the point in my career where I was...

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Hyperledger: Advancing Cross-Industry Blockchain Technologies

Published on: Oct 10, 2017 by 4936 views No Comments
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The Linux Foundation, the world’s leading organization assisting top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption, announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) on edX, Blockchain for Business: An Introduction to Hyperledger. Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, and is hosted under the Linux Foundation. This introductory course for technical...

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Upskilling his Web programming expertise with JavaScript: Meet, Jean-Claude

Published on: Oct 04, 2017 by 4435 views No Comments
Posted in: Learner Stories

I’m a software developer with many years of Java and Web programming experience. However, I recently attended an industry conference and realized that Web programming has changed a lot in recent years, especially with the release of new standards such as HTML5 and ES6. I realized that I needed to upskill and refresh my knowledge of Web programming in order to be best prepared for...

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How to Start Your STEM Career – Six Technology Courses

Published on: Jul 27, 2017 by 7548 views No Comments
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In a series of four blog posts, we’ll be highlighting courses available on edX that you can take as your first steps towards exploring and learning STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – skills. Read the first blog featuring science courses, here. “Technology” is arguably the most ambiguous of the disciplines identified in STEM, primarily because technology is an ingrained part of everyone’s lives....

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How to Start Your STEM Career – Six Science Courses

Published on: Jul 12, 2017 by 6774 views No Comments
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The shortage of qualified candidates for STEM – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – jobs has dominated headlines in recent years. There were nearly 8.6 million STEM jobs in May 2015, representing 6.2 percent of U.S. employment, and this will only increase in the years ahead. In fact, many top companies, such as GE, have launched workplace initiatives to curate and train talent to fill...

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