Professor, open source, EdTech, OER, MOOCs. Python for Everybody - the most popular programming course in the world.
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My @Coursera Python for Everybody course will pass 500K graduates sometime this week I think.
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This July 4, I am thinking about the fight to free student activity data from privately held LMS vendors that treat our data as an asset and are willing sell it to the highest bidder. Episode 3 of my podcast - "Getting Lost on the Way to the Cloud" - piped.video/7at-Qyj0T0I
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I got my first shot. The person giving the shot recognized the @Coursera logo. She had taken an intro Python course on Coursera and dropped out. I told her she should try again and this time take the #1 Python course in the world. coursera.org/learn/python
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Sometime in the next month, my Python for Everybody course on @coursera will reach a half-million completions with a completion rate > 30%
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I am pretty sure Python for Everybody on @Coursera
is the most popular programming course of all time. This is one course on one of several platforms. Prove me wrong. cc: @dhawalhshah
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I just passed 10 million views on my @YouTube channel. Since most of my content is Free and Open Education, I rarely monetize. I made less than $10 last month. :)
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In memory of my father Russell Calvin Eugene Severance, born December 13, 1930 in Camden, New Jersey - departed June 5, 2021 in his garden. He taught me to appreciate hard work, the value of an education, Algebra, and so much more.
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It is very rewarding to be a @Coursera instructor when you get a note like this on a Sunday morning. cc: @umsi @UMichiganAI @ColleenAtUMSI
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Hi all, this is for students who have taken my other online courses - I need a few Beta testers for my next free/open online course - "PostgreSQL for Everybody" - covers PostgreSQL, Database Architectures, and ElasticSearch
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I went to the grocery store. Everyone was wearing masks. Young, old, staff, customers. Folks did their shopping. Body language was neutral. People were calmly protecting their neighbors. It felt good. It felt normal. There might just be a light at the end of this tunnel.
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Python for Everybody - The most popular programming course in the world piped.video/UjeNA_JtXME via @YouTube
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Woah. @Coursera changed their logo. What were they thinking? They should know that tattoos are permanent. :)
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It is frustrating when you try to log in with a password and fail, then you reset the password and it says "your new password cannot be the same as your old password". Sigh.
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We had a lot of fun with @Coursera at the Hack Fest at the Malla Reddy College of Engineering and Technology. I showed off my LTI Tattoo :)
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Cool @Forbes article about @coursera going public that mentions that 'Its most popular set of courses is called “Python for Everybody Specialization,” taught by University of Michigan professor Charles Russell Severance.' forbes.com/sites/susanadams/…
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I am proud to announce the launch of the C Programming for Everybody (CC4E) on @Coursera coursera.org/specializations…
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Python for Everybody - The most popular programming course in the world piped.video/UjeNA_JtXME
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For my C Programming for Everybody MOOC, I am bringing some courses back that I taught in the 1990's. cc4e.com/archive/
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My Django for Everybody Specialization is now live on @Coursera coursera.org/specializations…
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Today I am working on an 8-year-old TODO. In 2012 I promised @coursera Internet History, Technology, and Security students I would hand-sign their certificate if they sent me a return envelope. I could not figure out international postage back then so I held on to them.
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Python for Everybody - Full University Python Course piped.video/8DvywoWv6fI via @YouTube
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In the last 7 days, > 33K learners started learning Python on @coursera coursera.org/learn/python - that is almost 5000 new students *per day*
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A great way to enhance productivity while in lots of @zoom_us meetings #zoomhack
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I will hand-sign the @Coursera certificate for first 10 learners who complete Django for Everybody. I will contact the first 10 learners by email. We already have one learner done with the specialization. coursera.org/specializations…
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"... many open-source projects are already under way in the academic community. One of the most popular is Sakai." er.educause.edu/articles/201…
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Python for Everybody - The most popular programming course in the world piped.video/UjeNA_JtXME via @YouTube
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They say corn should be "Knee high by the Fourth of July" - but it is "Shoulder high before the end of June" - probably a good year to short corn futures.
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As a professor who has been assigning exclusively free #OER textbooks for nearly a decade, purchasing books and codes for my son this Fall made me almost throw up in my mouth.
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I have received my first paper copy of the Spanish translation of Python for Everybody es.py4e.com
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If higher education wants to transform itself and create high quality offerings, we must *first* break our "outsource everything" addiction learn to do things for ourselves so we control the innovation - not our vendors. The first step is the hardest. cc: @UMichiganAI
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Nine years ago today I did my very first face to face @Coursera office hours at a Starbucks near NYU.
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I am excited to announce my Python for Everybody Courses are available @edXOnline dr-chuck.com/csev-blog/2019/…
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Python for Everybody - The most popular programming course in the world piped.video/UjeNA_JtXME
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If you are a school looking to teach a summer or fall programming course online, Python for Everybody (py4e.com) is 100% free with a book, materials, and auto-graded assessments and integrated into Sakai, Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, and Google Classroom.
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I just added a new folder to my @coursera email folder. As PG4E completes its roll out this week and I start to relax a bit, my mind is wandering to beginning development on my next specialization....
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In about two weeks Python for Everybody Course #1 on @Coursera will eclipse a half million graduates online.dr-chuck.com - with a pretty good completion rate too.
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There are a lot of funders that are interested in a just educational future - but I doubt they would like my ideas of freedom and openness and teacher empowerment. Usually they like things like surveillance to feed artificial intelligence to build the perfect learning Borg
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It is July 4, you can get all my technology courses 100% free at online.dr-chuck.com - actually they are always free every day :)
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My MacBookPro circa 2013 is finally acting weird (battery related). So I am transferring all my data to a spare circa 2013 MacBookPro so I don't have to buy a new @Apple laptop with a crappy keyboard and crappy USB C. Then I will fix my first laptop so I gain have a spare.
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Hey @davidbombal - thanks for the fun podcast interview. I am going to use it as the first lecture for my CC4E on campus class starting Thursday :) piped.video/watch?v=aQ_XTBmC…
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My home office is full of blue elephants because I am recording lectures for @PostgreSQL for Everybody. pg4e.com
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I just got this in email from @Coursera - "The most popular online courses of all time are on Coursera" (P.S. Python for Everybody is on the list) piped.video/watch?v=UjeNA_Jt…
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Three people have completed PostgreSQL for Everybody. I will send signed certificates to the first 10 students that complete the entire specialization. coursera.org/specializations…
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In 2020, Should You Learn Python or Javascript First? blog.coursera.org/in-2019-sh… via @coursera
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Learn C Programming with me (feat. classic book by Kernighan and Ritchie) with this video from @freeCodeCamp - piped.video/j-_s8f5K30I
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We have launched the second #PY4E course - "Python Data Structures" on the @FutureLearn platform futurelearn.com/courses/prog…
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For those of you waiting for my @PostgreSQL Specialization on @Coursera - I just added the coolest Easter Egg to two of my auto-graders :) When the course launches, I will have a contest to see who finds them first.
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The last two weeks of August is always bittersweet. This year is the saddest ever. I am savoring my last few restaurant meals (outdoor) as I plan to batten down the hatches to ride out the third wave that will be triggered by ill-advised school and university openings.
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This morning I learned about "display: flex;" and now I am like a kid in a candy store. Thank you CSS gods.
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I got my first cold in 2 years and recovered. I checked and tested negative for Covid. It was my first time my immune system was tested in two years. It is good to know it is still there :)
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This is the title slide for a lecture I am developing for SI364 and SI664 @umsi this week. I will use it in SI311 in a few weeks.
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There are 5K enrollments in course#1 for Django for Everybody @Coursera over the past six days. As a comparison, here have been 56K enrollments in course#1 for Web Applications for Everybody (PHP) over the past *three years*. Thanks @UMichiganAI
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The site is ready to use - just go to it (find it by Google search), login in, start watching videos, do the assignments and let me know if it works / breaks. I just finished it yesterday :)
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So I get a weekly update from all of the courses and translations that I am part of in @Coursera - I am now involved in or somehow part of 49 courses. Thanks to @coursera and @UMichiganAI @UMichOnline and my colleagues @umsi - I could never have done this much on my own.
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We found the owners of the stray puppy. There were no tags but the owners called animal control and then called us. For 24 hours our furry guest was completely spoiled and now he is back with his family. #happy
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I sent this to a friend: My experience online is that I am much better at bring life to my own imperfect materials than I am able to bring life to materials prepared by someone else - even if those materials have higher production values.
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Did a cool upgrade on the auto grader for Django for Everybody @Coursera - when you view a retrieved page it now shows rendered HTML instead of raw HTML source.
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Talking to my nephew: I don't know how to write a @Minecraft mod... but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me useful to a person building a @Minecraft mod.
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I am downgrading from an iPhone 8 plus to an iPhone 6 plus so I can get my headphone jack back. I am done searching for my converter. Matches my late-2013 MacBook Pro that I refuse to upgrade. cc: @Apple
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In less than a week - one enterprising student has managed to finish all four courses in the Django for Everybody specialization. I sent them a thank you note for testing everything :) coursera.org/specializations…
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I will be walking around today in my Accessiversity (leave your print on a more accessible world) T-Shirt from knappstrategic.com/accessive… to promote the 11th Global Accessibility Awareness Day #GAAD and to celebrate the work we do in @SakaiLMS making accessible.
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Hey @apple - Last night at 3AM my son cut his finger and needed to go to to the emergency room. 8 calls to all our phones went unanswered because Focus was installed and enabled silently in our last upgrade. Luckily our daughter has auto-upgrade tuned off.
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We had about 70 students show up for the F2F @Coursera office hours in #bengaluru - it is the largest group so far. A video is coming soon.
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An author asked me to review a non-free book on Amazon. This is what I said: My heart would not be in an Amazon review. I don’t want to support the model that “education is scarce”. At this point in my career where open has been so good to me, I don’t want to turn back. #OER
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It is not enrollments or completions but the number of unique visitors to my @Coursera Python for Everybody course just slipped over five million. coursera.org/specializations…
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Hey @PhilOnEdTech I always seem to wear the same shirt when I expect to get dirty or get paint on my clothes
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