Threatening the monopoly of corrupted universities that cater to rising educational aspirations with mediocre , recycled courses, the MOOC revolution now breaks out of North America to reach global universities.Of course, Coursera leads and I liked the tight integration with Meetup.com –
May I suggest they look at codeacademy and build much more gamification than currently available in their own courses.
From-
http://blog.coursera.org/post/43625628117/29-new-schools-92-new-courses-5-languages-4
Today we’re welcoming 29 new universities to the Coursera community of 2.7 million students and 33 existing universities across 4 continents!
also see
http://viz.coursera.org/2013-02-20-globe/
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https://www.edx.org/press/edx-expands-internationally
To date, edX has more than 700,000 individuals on its platform, who account for more than 900,000 course enrollments.
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced today the international expansion of its X University Consortium with the addition of six new global higher education institutions. The Australian National University (ANU), Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, McGill University and the University of Toronto in Canada, and Rice University in the United States are joining the Consortium
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Do you want a 100,000 extra analysts in your platform or language. Why don’t you let your training department design a MOOC for these platforms. Because the more people that are trained in your software or platform, the more brand ambassadors you have to selling it to future clients. Companies like 10gen are already doing it for MongoDB. And Oracle is doing it for R Enterprise ( see https://decisionstats.com/2012/10/23/10gen-and-online-education-mongodb/)
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What is a MOOC?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aiming at large-scale participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent development in distance education using open educational resources. They are similar to college courses, but typically do not offer academic credit. Other forms of assessment or certification may be available including those based on learning analytics for online environments.
MOOCs originated within the open educational resources (OER) movement and connectivist roots. Several MOOC-type projects have emerged independently, such as Coursera, Udacity, and edX.[1] Others, like Canvas Network and CourseSites by Blackboard Inc have evolved from learning management systems.
Also see-
http://www.mooc-list.com/ list of Massive Open Online Courses (free online courses) offered by the best universities and entities.
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