[Listed in alphabetical order]
1. Cogent Education
Cogent Education is the third in the series of fully peer-reviewed, open access journals launched by Cogent OA. Cogent Education has a mission to help researchers publish their work for a global audience and discover new connections with the wider community.
With dedicated editorial teams for each major branch of the field, Cogent Education considers original research articles across the full spectrum of education. To celebrate the launch of Cogent Education Cogent OA is waiving all article publishing charges (APCs) for a limited time.
Cogent Education is headed up by Editor-in-Chief, Professor John Lee, (professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Hong Kong Institute of Education), who is supported by an international team of editors. The editorial team seeks to evaluate submissions based on their methodological soundness and relevance rather than their perceived level of future significance, and a host of post-publication metrics will indicate each article’s ongoing impact in a range of ways.
Submissions to the journal are handled by a community of active specialists within the following sections of the journal:
- Curriculum and Teaching Studies
- Educational Assessment and Evaluation
- Educational Leadership and Management
- Educational Policy and Development
- Educational Psychology and Counseling
- Information and Communications Technology in Education
- International and Comparative Education
- Professional Education and Training
- Student Learning, Childhood and Voices
- Teacher Education and Development
Cogent Education is now open for submissions at: www.editorialmanager.com/cogentedu
2. The Odin Project
The Odin Project, an open source website, currently in beta, dedicated to providing free online training for beginner level web developers. The move opens up the courses to a broader group of students, who themselves will help develop the curriculum.
Web developers who can build with Ruby on Rails and Javascript are in demand like never before, but students who are interested in learning those skills often must choose to spend more than $10,000 for a coding bootcamp or up to $200,000 for a CS degree. Alternatively, they set out on their own with limited guidance on the best way achieve the necessary education. The Odin Project is designed to give these individuals a clear path to becoming hirable web developers.
The beta site includes two critical new features: progress tracking and collaborative studying capabilities.
The Odin Project curriculum includes:
- Introduction to Web Development: A brief introduction to the practice and career of web development
- Web Development 101: The basics of all the technologies needed to build websites
- Ruby Programming: The programming fundamentals in Ruby, the language built for programmer happiness
- Ruby on Rails: Rapidly develop and deploy websites using Ruby on Rails
- HTML5 and CSS3: Dive deeper and understand how to really make websites look good
- Javascript and jQuery: Make websites dynamic and smooth with Javascript and jQuery
- Getting Hired: How to get a job once you’ve got the skills and experience
In its early stages, The Odin Project has been incubated at Riviera Partners, a technical search and recruiting service that is dedicated to the expansion of the developer community.
For more information on The Odin Project, visit http://theodinproject.com
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