In the below infographic from Online Universities, you can see how each online course provider differs, what they currently offer, and even find out what they’ll cost you. Whether you’re a teacher, student, parent, or simply a lifelong learner … …
Free Online Certificate Courses from Great Universities: A Complete List
Below you can find a list of free online courses offered by leading universities. Most of these free courses offer “certificates” or “statements of completion.”
Presentation of the Week: New pedagogies; New technologies: Disruptive Threats to open Universities
Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course
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Presentation of the Week: The Connectivist Learning Environment
Stanford launches Class2Go, an open-source platform for online classes
The platform, called Class2Go, allows professors the flexibility to incorporate other online tools and to conduct research as they teach.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/september/class2go-online-platform-091212.html…
A Checklist For Using Google’s New eLearning Course Builder
Google has entered the increasingly crowded eLearning fray with their new Course Builder software, an open source software that will allow educators to create courses of their own on any topic.
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/a-checklist-for-using-googles-new-elearning-course-builder/…
Presentation of the Week: Designing and Running a MOOC
MOOC pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera
See the perspectives on the planning and development of a large scale open course, what challenges the MOOC presents for delivering a worthwhile educational experience, and what questions this type of course format provokes for a team already teaching and …
The Problems with Coursera’s Peer Assessments
When I wrote about the launch of online education startup Coursera back in April, one of the things that most intrigued me most was the description that founders Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng gave of their plans for a peer-to-peer …
What is a MOOC?
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Free Online Course Will Rely on Multiple Sites
A group of online-learning ventures is collaborating on a new kind of free class to be offered this fall, known as a mechanical MOOC (for “massive open online course”), that will teach a computer-programming language by patching together existing resources …
Presentation of the Week: Multi-Generation Pedagogical Innovations
How Coursera, A Free Online Education Service, Will School Us All
An online education outfit started by a pair of Stanford professors is offering top-drawer college-level courses for free. Higher learning may never be the same.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3000042/how-coursera-free-online-education-service-will-school-us-all…
7 Ways to Educate Yourself Outside the Classroom
Since so many schools have begun offering online courses as part of their curricula and app developers are making education apps by the truckload, we thought it’d be worth our while — and yours — to assemble a shortlist of …