Online courses are becoming a preferred method of education for more and more students at Bakersfield College. The number of students taking online courses at the college has significantly risen over the past couple years. The number of course section offerings has tripled since Fall 2015, jumping from 75 to 258 this spring, with around […]
There’s a reason people are turning to online learning en masse. Students can learn on their own schedule, save money on commuting, boarding, and a host of other expenses, and can often download course lectures for convenient offline reading. What’s more, some options let you can keep classes forever once you’ve paid for them. Some […]
Classes will be led by two Publix Aprons Cooking School chefs and are free to watch. During each class’s premiere, viewers participate in a live chat by submitting comments and questions for the chefs to answer. Recipes and a shopping list are available ahead of time on publix.com/onlineclasses. The January episode is titled “Get Cooking in […]
The CES trade show is powering up again in Vegas. Most of the biggest names in tech and stacks of start-ups you’ve never heard of will compete for attention over the next week. Some products may launch new categories – past events presented a first look at video cassette recorders (VCRs), organic light-emitting diode (OLED) […]
As the men descended on the bar and ordered pints, the young Portuguese in their midst was gently teased. Earlier in the week he had mentioned some impressive contacts in European football while his business card carried the Barcelona crest. His new-found friends feigned reverence. Scotland’s west coast was not accustomed to such dignitaries, they […]
Image copyright DMU/Redpix.co.uk A university is switching off all its social media channels for a few days as an example to encourage its students to try their own “digital detox”. De Montfort University, in Leicester, wants to highlight how “unrestrained social media use” can be harmful to the mental health of young people. The university […]
Snowy weather has already arrived in parts of the US and Europe and is forecast for the UK later this month. For school students, it means the chance of benefiting from the long-standing tradition of the “snow day”, when schools are forced to close and students get an unexpected day off. It’s a familiar theme […]
All-female classes in cyber-skills are being set up by the GCHQ intelligence service, in an attempt to recruit a wider range of online security experts. Almost 90% of the cyber-skills workforce worldwide is male, says GCHQ’s cyber-defence arm, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). With warnings of serious skills shortages, the security services are worried […]
