{"id":7652,"date":"2018-03-19T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:01","slug":"umsi-awards-coursera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/19\/umsi-awards-coursera\/","title":{"rendered":"SI professors win outstanding educator awards from Coursera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cApplied Data Science with Python,\u201d an online course specialization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/news\/umsi-professors-win-outstanding-educator-awards-coursera\">developed by four professors<\/a> at the School of Information, has won a major award from Coursera, a leading online learning platform.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Christopher Brooks<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><strong>Kevyn Collins-Thompson<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<strong>Daniel Romero<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and\u00a0<\/span><strong>VG Vinod Vydiswaran<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0won Coursera\u2019s Outstanding Educator Award for Innovation for the highly successful specialization.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Romero accepted the award at the Coursera Partners Conference at Arizona State University on March 7.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of thousands of courses and specializations, this one \u201chas truly demonstrated innovation in creating a great online learning experience through the use of executable code blocks and Jupyter Notebooks, as well as A\/B testing the effect of gender bias,\u201d the announcement read.\u00a0&#8220;We appreciate the hard work that you\u2019ve invested in sharing your expertise with learners on Coursera and want to use this award to congratulate you.\u201d\u00a0U-M already offers 120 MOOCs (massive open online courses). SI leads in U-M\u2019s MOOC space with nearly 40 online courses.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cApplied Data Science with Python,\u201d an online course specialization developed by four professors at the School of Information, has won a major award from Coursera, a leading online learning platform.\u00a0Christopher Brooks,\u00a0Kevyn Collins-Thompson,\u00a0Daniel Romero,\u00a0and\u00a0VG Vinod Vydiswaran\u00a0won Coursera\u2019s Outstanding Educator Award for Innovation for the highly successful specialization.\u00a0Romero accepted the award at the Coursera Partners Conference at Arizona State University\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/19\/umsi-awards-coursera\/\">Read More 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