5 online learning platforms to kick-start your career in machine learning

by Jenny Darmody, Silicon Republic

If a three or four-year degree doesn’t take your fancy, an online course can often give you a solid grounding for a fruitful career. Online courses give people more flexibility and less commitment when it comes to learning the basics of any skill. For many online courses and e-learning facilities, you can dip in and out in your own time, study and practise in your own time and move at your own pace. Many are free and the ones that aren’t often offer a free trial. There is also a wide variety of course levels you can do, prices you can pay, time you can spend learning and there’s scope to upskill. Linked below we’ve looked at just some of the e-learning platforms where you can learn about machine learning that will help kick-start your career.

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/advice/machine-learning-online-courses-skills

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Why is it so hard to find expertise in IoT & AI?

by Nihal Kashinath, Financial Express

Traditional learning avenues like schools and colleges haven’t kept pace. While many engineering colleges offer electives in IoT or AI as part of the curriculum, the course content is very basic. Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been two of the fastest growing fields of technology in recent history—in India and across the world. The potential they hold to transform business and economy has been capturing the attention of CEOs, entrepreneurs, young professionals and students alike. Over the last four years that we’ve been tracking this space, the use-cases and business-cases being explored have matured significantly, and in the last 18 months there has even been an uptick in the number of companies ready to make investments in exploratory efforts. Yet we don’t see many pilot projects going on in India.

http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/online-learning-why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-expertise-in-iot-ai/735576/

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17 Online Grading Tools for Busy Educators

by Matthew Lynch, tech Edvocate

In order to make grading easier, there are several edtech companies that sell online grading tools. These tools will make sure that when you assess your students, you have all of the resources that you need to be successful. We decided to create a list of the 17 best online grading tools for teachers, so you won’t have to do a ton of research to find the one that works for you.

http://www.thetechedvocate.org/17-online-grading-tools-busy-educators/

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Using Kinect Sensors and Facial Recognition in the Classroom

By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

A project at Carnegie Mellon University promises to change that with the use of sensors in the classroom hooked to software to help TAs — especially those from other countries — refine their teaching skills in STEM courses. Computer-Aided Noticing and Reflection (CANAR) is the project of Amy Ogan, an assistant professor in the Human Computer Interaction Institute, and Ph.D. student David Gerritsen. The work is being supported by a $174,000 National Science Foundation grant. As Ogan explained the problem, “Many of our teaching assistants in universities today come from a wide variety of cultures.”  The ultimate goal of the project is to support improved teaching and learning in university classrooms by bridging cultural divides between students and their teachers.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/07/06/using-kinect-sensors-and-facial-recognition-in-the-classroom.aspx

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Kentucky schools connect with homeschool kids via online courses

BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS, Herald-Leader

Wayne County Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Allen Clark is offering a deal to homeschool families: If a homeschool student is willing to enroll in the district taking online courses, the district will pay for the classes. “We assign a teacher from our high school and they work with the child,” Clark said. Wayne County Assistant Superintendent Allen Clark Wayne County Schools. If the student passes the classes, which cost about $100 total, Wayne County can count them in its average daily attendance numbers and receive state funds — about $3200 per student, per school year, according to Clark. About seven or eight of the district’s 75 homeschool students took him up on the offer in 2015-16, and he hopes that 15 to 20 students enroll for 2016-17.

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article88800107.html

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HIGHER EDUCATION: Why do women lead STEM dropouts?

by Mark Muckenfuss, Press Enterprise

Women are fleeing the lab in larger numbers than men. Despite years of effort to encourage female students to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering and math – so called STEM fields – a new study by researchers at the University of Missouri finds that gender is a primary indicator in dropout rates for college programs. Education professor Lisa Floresand her team are in the midst of a five-year study of 12 engineering colleges. Preliminary results indicate that while dropout rates seem to vary little along ethnic lines, there is a distinct difference between men and women. No numbers were provided with the preliminary findings.

http://www.pe.com/articles/women-807778-stem-students.html

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10 Great Websites For Learning Programming

by Thomas Claburn, Information Week

Whether you’re preparing for a new career or experimenting with magic powers, it’s worth knowing how to program. The best way to learn to program is through trial and error by working on projects that interest you. There’s no substitute for solving problems mostly on your own, and for seeking out help only when necessary. The DIY approach makes concepts real and memorable because you’ve implemented them, rather than reading material that may be forgotten. What follows are a few of what, in my opinion, are the best educational options out there to reach a moderate level of skill as a programmer. Feel free to tell us about others you’d recommend in the comments section below

http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/software-as-a-service/10-great-websites-for-learning-programming/d/d-id/1321154

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Girl’s petition helps change boys-only robotics class

by AOL

An all-boy club for anything sounds weird to many of us nowadays, but that’s exactly what was going on … in a library of all places. The Timmins Public Library in Ontario denied letting girls into a summer session on robotics. That was until this Change.org petition by Cash Cayen went online and got over 30,000 supporters. Cash says the library wouldn’t let her join the session because it was only offered to boys. They did offer to put her on a waiting list. This all comes as the effort to get women and girls interested in the world of science and engineering continues to gain traction. And it seems to be working. A study by the National Science Foundation found girls are earning math and science credits at roughly the same rates as boys.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/07/04/girls-petition-helps-change-boys-only-robotics-class/21204959/

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More Ohio students learning via online schools

by Eric Schwartzberg, Journal News

More children than ever in Ohio are learning via online schools, a trend that local parents say is more the result of wanting more for their child than it is about their local school district. Increased popularity for this option has seen enrollments totals blossom from 44 such schools serving approximately 17,000 students in 2004 to 27 e-schools serving 39,044 students in the 2013-14 school year. That simultaneous decrease in the amount of schools and increase in enrollment has bolstered class ranks, leading to numerous Ohio e-learning institutions graduating their largest classes ever, including Ohio Virtual Academy, an accredited, full-time, online public community school that in June graduated 750 students, the largest graduating class in school history.

http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/more-ohio-students-learning-via-online-schools/nmq2c/

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5 Powerful Videos That’ll Help You Understand Global Education

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

The Global Education Conference is a free, week-long event that connects teachers, students, administrators, and organizations from around the world. This particular conference is really awesome because it happens completely via webinar – so you can participate online. Aside from the advantages the all-webinar format offers, it also allows for a huge breadth of presenters and topics. The 2013 conference was host to over 200 general sessions and 19 keynote speakers, which really means there’s something for everyone in there. We’ve put together a short list of our 5 favorite videos from the 2013 conference – linked below.

http://www.edudemic.com/5-videos-global-education-conference/

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How The World Really Connects To The Internet

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

The internet: Not just for first world countries anymore. While high speed, broadband access may be much more ubiquitous in more developed countries, internet infrastructure and broadband connectivity is much more widespread than you may be aware of. Over the last decade, huge strides have been made, meaning many more students across the globe are being connected to the vast network of students, teachers, and the world. The handy infographic linked below paints a pretty good picture of what internet connectivity looks like around the world. Take a look, and try to imagine how many more people you could be connecting with around the globe in just a few short years.

http://www.edudemic.com/world-connectivity-infographic/

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Technology will be woven into most courses: Sushil Vachani

by Anirban Sen, Livemint

So, if you look ahead, the education sector is at an inflection point. There are some obvious things—there is an increasing demand for education. But the big change that has occurred already is that technology is creating enormous opportunities for delivery of education. Online education has always been there. But all along, people kind of looked down their nose on online education. But in 2011, Stanford opened up their course on Artificial Intelligence as a MOOC. There were about 160,000 students registered for that course across the world. And only 23,000 completed the course. But there were still 23,000 students who completed it. This was a big deal not because an online course was being offered, but because one of the world’s best institutions was putting its stamp of approval on online education. And then other universities began to wake up. This is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s also a threat. The opportunity is that any university in the world can beam its course around the world. People who couldn’t afford a world-class education, can afford it. The threat is that they can come into your market.

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