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Newsbytes n DARDEN TACKLES DESIGN The Batten Institute at the University of Virginia���s Darden School of Business in C �� harlottesville��has created Design@Darden (www.design atdarden.org) as a resource for educators who teach design thinking in business schools and related environments. The site will include an interactive Dialogue on Design forum, where educators can share best practices, and provide resources such as videos, pre- n NEW GMAT such as Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Autodesk, Cadence, and Wolfram to deliver a series of free online courses that focus on skills needed by a high-tech workforce, including data visualization, HTML5 for game development, and mobile applications development for Android platforms. The courses will build on Udacity���s existing courses in math, general sciences, computer science, programming, and entrepreneurship. RESOURCE The Economist���s Which MBA? now offers an online learning program. Which MBA? is a resource for prospective MBA students. The GMAT Tutor provides full-length practice exams, one-on-one video sessions with tutors, progress reports, and essay evaluation, as well as a personalized dashboard for students to track their progress. The product is sold with a money-back guarantee if students do not achieve at least a 50-point score increase under GMAT Tutor���s complete plan or a 70-point score increase under its premium plan. n REAL ESTATE BASICS n UT TACKLES sentations, syllabi, teaching notes, and links to related sources. It also will host a series of Webinars, such as last November���s ���The Challenges of Teaching Design Thinking in B-School Classrooms.��� n UDACITY LINKS UP Free online course provider Udacity has partnered with tech industry mainstays FREE COURSES The University of Texas system has announced that it will join edX, the nonprofit online learning venture founded by Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. UT, which includes nine academic institutions and six health institutions, will be the first university system in the edX partnership, which also includes the University of California, Berkeley. The move is part of UT���s Institute for Transformational Learning, established in 2011 to expand access to education, enhance learning, reduce costs, and promote innovation. The W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University in Tempe has launched a nine-month online real estate development certificate program, which offers an overview of real estate fundamentals, law, investments, land development, responsible community development, and sustainability. The Carey School also soon will launch knowRE, an online publication about its real estate research and programs that will be available at www. knowwpcarey.com/realestate. and Graduate School of Business in California are collaborating to deliver online course content for the new Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate. Participants can earn the certificate by completing eight of 12 courses that cover topics such as prototyping, marketing, social media, innovation strategy, and entrepreneurship. The school will add more courses over the coming year. n BRINGING ECON ONLINE The University of Cincinnati���s Lindner College of Business in Ohio will establish the Alpaugh i-Learning Economics Education program with the support of a US$1 million donation from Peter Alpaugh and the Alpaugh Family Foundation. Expected to launch in the spring of 2013, the online program will offer post-graduate professional development courses, tutorials, and resources to K-12 educators and administrators who want to accelerate their students��� understanding of economics. n CERTIFICATE OF INNOVATION Faculty at Stanford University���s School of Engineering BizEd January/February 2013 65