Sunday 24 February 2013

MOOCs

Massive Open Oline Courses


Great discussion yesterday with tutor and students from OU on MOOCs and the enormous variety of short courses to be had for free from:

EdX  https://www.edx.org/ with courses from Harvard, MIT and Berkeley among others
Coursera https://www.coursera.org largest provider yet
Udacity https://www.udacity.com/  Forcomputing courses
Codecademy http://www.codecademy.com Also computing
Udemy https://www.udemy.com/ There is a charge for this one

All the courses are delivered with video by academics from the universities. All the above are American but soon to be launched is FutureLearn http://futurelearn.com/ headed up by the OU with several other UK universities.

Connected people
Futurelearn will bring together a range of free, open, online courses from leading UK universities, in the same place and under the same brand.

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