Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Ivy League for the Masses

 I found a graph on page 35 of Time magazine October 29, 2012 that includes 3 MOOCs (massive open online courses)

Here are the three now existent:

Udacity                                 Coursera                                           EDX
for-profit                              for-profit                                         not-for-profit
January 2012                        April 2012                                      May 2012
An island unto itself            33 colleges so far                           MIT and Harvard
founded by a former            including Princeton,                       have been joined by
Stanford professor                Stanford,Penn, Duke,                    U. of Texas and 
                                             Ohio State, U. of Virginia               UC Berkeley
14 courses offered                198  courses                                        7 courses
so far

400,000 students                  1.4 million students                         350,000 students

Udacity | Free Online Courses. Advance your College Education ...

Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/
Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time and money! - Gerald Dicen. Join 1,859,567 Courserians. Learn with videos, quizzes, and ...

edX

https://www.edx.org/
Explore free courses from edX universities. MITx. HarvardX. BerkeleyX. UTx ... EdX to offer learners option of taking proctored final exam. 09/06/12. UC Berkeley ...

So, these are the MOOCs right now. Likely there could be more soon. 

 

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