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  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt University, Barge Design Solutions unveil collaborative initiative aimed at educating leaders on generative AI

    Barge Design Solutions, an engineering and architecture firm, is collaborating with Vanderbilt University’s Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative to educate executives on how to embrace and harness this groundbreaking technology in business leadership. Jules White To kick off the collaboration, Jules White, senior advisor to Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2024

  • Vanderbilt University

    Interdisciplinary team develops open-access computer programming course for high school teachers

    A modular, open-access curriculum created at Vanderbilt that’s designed to expand the ability of high school teachers to use technology in learning offers an engaging introduction to advanced topics that are currently accessible only to computer science majors in college. Programming for a Networked World is a beginner-level MOOC… Read More

    Nov. 3, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Jules White offers second free ChatGPT online course; Enrollment opens today

    Open enrollment starts Wednesday, Sept. 13, for Vanderbilt’s second free ChatGPT online course taught by Jules White, associate dean for strategic learning programs and professor of computer science. The  course is on the Coursera platform and focuses on mastering ChatGPT’s new Advanced Data Analysis tool. White designed his ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis course… Read More

    Sep. 13, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt launches free online ChatGPT course, shaping the future of AI education

    Chances are you’ve heard of ChatGPT. Perhaps you’ve even tested out the headline-worthy AI tool yourself. But do you know how to harness ChatGPT to be more productive in your personal and professional life? Jules White, associate dean for strategic learning programs and associate professor of computer science at Vanderbilt… Read More

    May. 26, 2023

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt’s online MATLAB course is a top MOOC

    Vanderbilt’s free online course, Introduction to Programming with MATLAB on Coursera, is ranked No. 15 out of thousands of MOOCs (massive open online course) and remains one of the Top 50 MOOCs of All Time, rated by Class Central, a search engine and review site for MOOCs. Class… Read More

    Sep. 21, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    New MOOC will teach core Java programming

    The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning has launched Java for Android, the first massive open online course (MOOC) in Coursera’s new Android App Development Specialization. This five-course specialization is a collaboration between Vanderbilt University and Coursera and… Read More

    Apr. 8, 2016

  • VUSE news roundup

    VUSE news roundup

    January 28, 2014 Washington Post: U-Md. and Johns Hopkins offer specialized sequences of online courses via Coursera Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, two of Coursera’s partners, are among the first to offer specialty sequences of courses. U. Maryland is teaming with Vanderbilt University on a… Read More

    Jan. 30, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    ‘Deep dive’ in popular fields is aim of next generation of MOOCs

    YouTube: Learn about Mobile Cloud Computing with Android Vanderbilt teams up with University of Maryland to offer trans-institutional sequence of massive open online courses Enabling students taking massive open online courses to dive deeper into learning and develop mastery in a particular subject are the aims… Read More

    Jan. 21, 2014

  • Joint course to offer MOOC sequence on mobile app development

    Joint course to offer MOOC sequence on mobile app development

      Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland have teamed up to introduce a new approach to massive open online courses, or MOOCs – a two-part, sequenced course offered through the digital learning… Read More

    Dec. 10, 2013

  • Vanderbilt University

    Constant innovation helped early MOOC course succeed

      Professor of Computer Science Doug Schmidt films a video for Coursera. (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Constant innovation helped make one of the first massive open online courses, or MOOCs, at Vanderbilt more like a “real class” and benefited faculty and students by improving on-campus teaching, according to Douglas… Read More

    Sep. 17, 2013