Showing posts with label Ivy League for the Masses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ivy League for the Masses. Show all posts

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.