This 2 week course, with a 2-4 hour per week commitment per week, comes with a marketing promotion: one year of Watson Assistant services to power 10 chatbots at no charge. It requires to sign up for a free IBM Cloud account. Taught by Antonio Cangiano, software developer and technical evangelist at IBM, this five module course instructs on how to build, analyze, deploy, and monetize chatbots. In the third module, the instructor introduces Watson assistant. These chatbots can be deployed on WordPress sites. This course on edX is part of the IBM's Cognitive Class.ai initiative, based on providing data science and cognitive computer courses as a way to promote its IBM Cloud and Watson services. On Open edX, IBM strategy consists of building a multi-site network. IBM managers, Leon Katsnelson, Rav Ahuja and Luiz Aoqui, elaborated on that in a talk during the 2018 Open edX Conference in Montreal. [Slides, Video]
David Vise, Executive Director of Modern States Education Alliance, comments in this podcast what is behind this program's success. Video of the podcast:
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McKinsey Academy, which has experienced several changes in its management team in the last years, is now advertising courses intended for its pre-IPO customer companies in areas such as Problem Solving, Communicating with Impact, and Team Management. Each course is a synchronous 6-8 week online class, with a required commitment of 90-120 minutes per student per week and an enrollment in teams of 4-5 people for a social experience.
Intended for high school and college students studying biology, LabXchange will offer digital instruction, virtual lab experiences, and opportunities for collaborating and mentoring. This way aspiring scientists will get free lab access online with experimental simulations. "As a result of economic or geographic limitations, millions of students do not have access to one of the most central aspects of being a scientist, which is working in a laboratory,” said Robert Lue, principal investigator of LabXchange and professor of the practice of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard. LabXchange will build on Amgen projects such as its scholars' program or the Amgen Biotech Experience, with 660,000 high school students. The Harvard Gazette: Virtual lab to extend the reach of science education
