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1 Million Downloads in 7 Weeks for Stanford Course on iTunes U.

Free videos of Stanford’s wildly popular course on creating applications for the iPhone and iPod touch have now been downloaded a remarkable million times from Stanford’s site on iTunes U in the iTunes Store.

And all of the million downloads have come in just seven weeks, since the course began on April 1. This makes the iPhone Application Programming videos the fastest to reach the 1 million milestone in the history of iTunes U.

Apple engineers teach the live version of the course to Stanford students in a small auditorium in Stanford’s Quad. The rest of the world can take the course online for free by downloading videos of all the class lectures and the slides used by instructors. (The videos and slides are available at http://itunes.stanford.edu.)

Only Stanford students enrolled in the classroom version of iPhone Application Programming will receive credit for the course, however.

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Feedback From Project Leadership Students

Cornell University’s Project Leadership Certificate launched in the late fall of 2008.  Here’s some feedback from a few of the students who have taken courses in this certificate.

“One of the best Courses I have ever taken. Opened my eyes to ideas, myself and my-co-workers I have never considered. Will be a huge benefit to me and my company.”

“Very interesting course.  I always focus on the functional requirements of tasks and the assignment of people to those tasks.  This course will help me look at cultural and learning style differences as well.  Each module is more rewarding than the last.  I believe that, thus far, the course has been presented in the best way to help me improve my leadership skills.  I look at the course, not just from a traditional project” standpoint, but also from an everyday magagement standpoint.  Employee development, building an ethical and profitable culture, and other everyday management challenges, are all projects, in a sense. ”

“Great insights and course material.  I love the continued focus of this overall certificate program on leadership rather than management.  Well done!”

“Great course. Expertly designed. Class material was invaluable.Systematic and easy for the participants to go to one chapter to another easily.  Graphics, work-flow illustrated in the course makes the course content more interesting.”

“Good exposure to models and techniques.  As from now on after having been introduced with the tools and techniques necessary to spearhead my next project and bring it on time, on budget and at performance levels that will add directly to my company’s bottom line.  I must say that even though I work a full time job and do night get home to study until 930 pm Italian time, the division of information and the use of real world examples has help me fit this into my already tight life schedule.  Real life experiences work well, especially since they help to reduce my doubt that cannot be aided by asking a direct question in person.”

“Beautiful content, eye-opening and I particularly enjoy the practical nature. It captures a lot of work place realities.  I practice most of what has been taught but I gathered more details and a reason behind it.”

Please contact info@ecornell.com for more information.

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eCornell to Present with IBM India at Chief Learning Officer Symposium 2009

On  Tuesday April 7, eCornell will be co-presenting with IBM India on the success of IBM’s blended learning program Bright Blue.  The presentation, titled Accelerating the Development of the Executive Leadership, will be delivered by Radhika Singh, IBM India’s Growth Markets Leader, Executive Development, Centre for Learning & Development.

The presentation will discuss how the Bright Blue program is designed to build and strengthen IBM’s pipeline of executive leaders in line with the company’s rapid growth into the future. Bright Blue integrates online financial management and leadership training from eCornell with the strategic use of IBM’s existing global learning assets. Ms. Singh will discuss the strategy, approach and results of this innovative program that already has trained more than 120 managers and how it  has improved business acumen, provided exposure to industry expertise and best practices, delivered quantifiable ROI in its first six months, significantly increased key leadership competencies and helped fill the leadership pipeline.

eCornell is a proud sponsor of the Spring 2009 CLO Symposium: Beyond Boundaries: Learning’s Impact Across the Organization being held April 6 – 8 at the Lowes Miami Beach Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.

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MIT Will Provide Open Access to Articles

Faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have voted to make all of their scholarly articles available to the public, free and online. MIT and faculty members will let others use the articles in any way except to make a profit. Individual authors may opt out on an article-by-article basis. “The vote is a signal to the world that we speak in a unified voice; that what we value is the free flow of ideas,” said Bish Sinyal, chair of the MIT Faculty and the Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning.

Read the full article.

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eCornell Joins with Center for Hospitality Research to Offer Online Executive Education Opportunity

Ithaca, NY, March 10, 2009 – Thousands of employees at some of the world’s foremost hospitality-related companies will gain preferred access to the online courses offered by eCornell, through a groundbreaking arrangement with Cornell’s Center for Hospitality Research, eCornell, and the Office of Executive Education at the School of Hotel Administration. eCornell, which is a subsidiary of Cornell University, will become a full partner with the center in offering this opportunity.

“We continue to seek innovative and helpful methods to share research-based information with the industry, and to help industry practitioners improve their knowledge and skills,” said Jennifer Macera, associate director of the Center for Hospitality Research. “This is especially important in the current economic environment.”

“eCornell is excited to be working with the Center for Hospitality Research in this new type of partnership,” added Chris Proulx, Chief Executive Officer of eCornell. “eCornell has been working extensively with the hospitality industry since 2002 and we are pleased to provide this additional opportunity for industry employees.”