The California State University has provided an extensive list of free online courses on their website. Provided on this site are Open CourseWare (OCW), featuring MERLOT.org; institutions providing OCWs, such as MIT OpenCourseWare, The Open University, and UC College Prep Open Access; and Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including edX, Udacity, and Coursera. For more [...]
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Thomas L. Friedman and MOOCs
The prominent and effective uses of MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) has been both encouraging and illustrative of the wide acceptance, nationally and internationally, of integrated technology within the areas of higher education. It also presents a very promising perspective of how conventional classrooms and educational systems have welcomed and utilized these tools in creative [...]
Udacity Partners With San Jose SU for an Exciting MOOC Pilot
The New York Times reported last Tuesday that San Jose State University and online course creation company Udacity have announced a partnership. SJSU and Udacity hope to build for-credit online courses that could eventually save thousands of students in California the costs of traditional college courses. What will make an online SJSU course so different [...]
Gates Foundation announces it will fund MOOC research project at Maryland universities
Inside Higher Ed reported yesterday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an 18-month project assessing the impact of MOOCs in selected public universities in Maryland. The project will cost $1.4 million and will be run by nonprofit research group Ithaka S+R. The goal of the project is to determine the effectiveness and [...]
What is a MOOC?
The recent announcement by a number of universities on offering online courses for free and open to anyone heralds what some call as the beginning of a wave of MOOCs, or massively open online courses. Just what exactly is a MOOC and how does it differ from a typical distance learning course? The video below [...]
