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Category Archives: MOOC
OpenLearning launches courses
OpenLearning, a new Australian startup, recently announced its first roster of 4 free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): UNSW Computing 1, Observing and Analysing Performance in Sport, and two marketing courses. UNSW Computing 1, an introductory computer science programming taught … Continue reading
Still time to enroll in ModPo
Coursera’s new course on Modern Poetry (a.k.a. ModPo) is one of the most delightful courses I’ve listened to in a long time. Most of the credit is due to the professor, Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania, who is … Continue reading
Posted in Coursera, Courses, Literature, MOOC
Tagged Al Filreis, Modern Poetry, University of Pennsylvania
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Adventures in MOOC-land
To hear Sebastian Thrun tell it, some folks like a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) even better than a real world lecture class. Thrun, the founder of Udacity, discovered that some of his Stanford University students liked the online version … Continue reading
Posted in Courses, Fantasy, Five-star professors, Literature, MOOC, Writing
Tagged Coursera, Eric Rabkin
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New courses from Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley
More news from the fast moving world of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): University of California at Berkeley has joined the edX consortium of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the consortium’s first roster of courses is now online. … Continue reading
Fantasy and Science Fiction
In a traditional literature class, students read, discuss and write about their interpretations of literary texts. But can a literature class work as a MOOC — a Massive Open Online Course with thousands of students? Fantasy and Science Fiction, a … Continue reading
The MOOCs have landed!
“What is a MOOC,” you ask. It’s the newly trendy acronym for Massive Open Online Course – the kind of free online course on offer at startups Coursera and Udacity, and by the non-profit Harvard-MIT-UC Berkeley consortium edX. MOOCs differ … Continue reading
Guide to MIT Open Courseware
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been in the free online course business longer than just about everyone else. Its website is chock full of exciting riches, but navigating the site can be a challenge. While MIT groups the courses by … Continue reading
Posted in Academic podcasts, Courses, edX, Math, MOOC, Science
Tagged edX, MIT, MITx, OCW Scholar, open courseware
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