[FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience -- Campus Technology

[Barry MacKichan]

Frank, May the 4th be with you.

--Barry


On 5 May 2018, at 14:42, Grant Holland wrote:

> That was one of the first Java books I read, too, Frank. It was before 
> Sun published any Java programming books, and before I went to work 
> for Sun.
>
> BTW, I believe your b'day is today, Frank. If so, have a great one!
>
> Grant
>
>
> On 5/5/18 12:52 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>>
>> I assume a good Python book costs less than the course.  In 1996 I 
>> got a job re-implementing a large statistical causal reasoning 
>> library from Pascal to Java.  I bought a book called “Teach 
>> yourself Java in 21 days”.  Within less than that time I had 
>> several large programs converted.  I barely looked at the Pascal but 
>> at pseudocode descriptions of the algorithms instead.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Marcus 
>> Daniels
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 04, 2018 2:02 PM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional 
>> Education Experience -- Campus Technology
>>
>> “As a measure of the magnitude of impact of MOOCs so far, one of 
>> our MOOC specializations in the Python programming language is among 
>> the most popular offerings on Coursera — I believe that it has 
>> reached more than a million learners at this point. A significant 
>> fraction of those learners have opted to sit for an exam to get a 
>> certificate in Python programming.”
>>
>> <Huff>  A person that seeks a Coursera class to learn Python is not 
>> destined for a career in software development.
>>
>> “Also, we introduced an Applied Data Science specialization about a 
>> year ago. That one, though not receiving enrollments at quite the 
>> same level as the Python specialization, is generating tens of 
>> thousands of learners per quarter.”
>>
>> Thousands of learners or thousands of people who create a filtering 
>> problem for recruiting departments?
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Tom Johnson 
>> <tom at jtjohnson.com>
>> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
>> <friam at redfish.com>
>> *Date: *Friday, May 4, 2018 at 1:47 PM
>> *To: *"Friam at redfish. com" <friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject: *[FRIAM] Transforming the Postsecondary Professional 
>> Education Experience -- Campus Technology
>>
>> Image removed by sender.
>>
>> Perhaps of interest....
>>
>> Transforming the Postsecondary Professional Education Experience
>> A Q&A with Thomas A. Finholt
>> https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2018/04/16/Transforming-the-Postsecondary-Professional-Education-Experience.aspx?s=ct_in_040518&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRFeE1EVTVPRFJtTWpSaSIsInQiOiJCOGhlK2U2d3l5R3BodGpScFQrUk5MNlNGWnh5Y3EreWtYVnhtWm1MY01DcXkwTWN2OTBxa25oVFdMa3Y0RDd2NklUNGtFMTFWU2ZnM3g0SCtQUE05VWlaaWM1MXRzSld0UWg5WmZVM1prV2hKSWZ3N3RvTTBoTWlVMFJQYlJiZiJ9&Page=1 
>> <https://www.cloudhq.io/mail_track/link/7986e443446b1e001024a94023e95373?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcampustechnology.com%2FArticles%2F2018%2F04%2F16%2FTransforming-the-Postsecondary-Professional-Education-Experience.aspx%3Fs%3Dct_in_040518%26mkt_tok%3DeyJpIjoiTVRFeE1EVTVPRFJtTWpSaSIsInQiOiJCOGhlK2U2d3l5R3BodGpScFQrUk5MNlNGWnh5Y3EreWtYVnhtWm1MY01DcXkwTWN2OTBxa25oVFdMa3Y0RDd2NklUNGtFMTFWU2ZnM3g0SCtQUE05VWlaaWM1MXRzSld0UWg5WmZVM1prV2hKSWZ3N3RvTTBoTWlVMFJQYlJiZiJ9%26Page%3D1>
>>
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