An online education startup from Stanford, Coursera offers free online classes taught by top university professors across the nation. A Coursera course grants students instant access to several hours of lecture videos and quizzes put together by the course professor.
The School of Arts and Sciences Computing Department announced in February that email accounts will switch to Gmail from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail.
It is not always bad to be the square peg in the round hole. Coursekit, an education management startup founded by three Penn students, changed its name to Lore in light of changing company directions. The new logo consists of the product name arranged in a square formation within a red circle.
Philly Tech Week, which begins Monday, April 23, is a string of workshops, panels and hackathons. The week is a celebration of the technology scene in Philadelphia and aims to showcase what tech-savvy people and organizations in Philadelphia have been working on for the past year.
The online platform allows users to ask questions to certified professionals and receive reliable answers.
Earlier this month, Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Businesses Act to stimulate the job market. One of the provisions will allow for startups to raise funding through crowd-funding, or by receiving funding from multiple smaller sources, instead of only a few large investors.
The University was ranked second in social media use among American and European universities in a recent study done by social media consulting firm Sociagility.
Over the next year, all engineering students will be required to switch to AOL from their current SEAS emails as the Engineering school shuts down its own email servers.
Welcome to the life of 19-year-old Zhao — college dropout and successful self-made entrepreneur. Zhao taught himself how to code in his spare time as a student and a Division I athlete for Penn’s sprint football and track and field teams.
The Penn Course Review site, which has been in beta testing since advanced registration last semester, has been positively received by students searching for classes during the advanced registration period.
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