In May Harvard and MIT launched the third major MOOC (massively open online course) player, EdX.
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He recently launched an online course entitled, The New Rules of Persuasive Presentations.
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When he heard of Udacity, he dropped out of school and signed up for an online course.
Then he mentioned the online course at a conference with 80 attendees and 80 people signed up.
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Online learning is sweeping across America, as more than 3 million K-12 students took an online course in 2009.
They have also taken the first steps towards arranging for these online course units to count towards full university degrees.
Though he is grateful to Apple for exchanging the older iPads, the Center might not use iPads for this online course.
In September, Michael Perry took 126 hours of training at CodeAcademy, a free online course that teaches a variety of programming languages.
Thrun, a lively presence, also makes appearances in the online course.
Brigitte Maciorowski, who has been selling Avon since 2009, signed up for an online course in January to try to learn how to engage customers with social media.
Everyone was talking about the MOOC this past year as the notion of an online course offering with infinite capacity captured the attention and imagination of the education industry.
Her courses include Cultural Anthropology, Global Cultural Diversity and Gender through Comic Books, which she is teaching this spring as a massive open online course (MOOC) via Canvas.net.
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Like edX, Coursera is working to challenge that assumption, and today the online course provider announced partnerships with ten public university systems that'll integrate lessons from Coursera into the classroom.
Right now the high school online course providers in Utah, as in much of the rest of the nation, get paid no matter how well students do in a given course.
This is the first time SAS has supported a massive online course using SAS On Demand, its free offering, said Jerry Oglesby, senior director for global academic and certification programs at the company.
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To take a notable example, people from the biggest of the massive open online course platforms, Coursera, often talk about how exciting it is that they can do A-B testing to learn what works.
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From the ease of research that it affords teachers and students, down to actual online course work for students of all ages, more people have access to quality learning than ever before, thanks to the Internet.
The Phoenix company will announce Tuesday the creation of Innovator's Accelerator, a six-week, online course taught by Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen, Hal Gregersen of Insead and Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management.
As noted in a previous Crotty on Education column, in the fall of 2011 Stanford University Professor, Sebastian Thrun, launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on artificial intelligence that attracted more than 160, 000 students.
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Aside from the fact that many of us in the startup community share a general fascination for businesses shifting paradigms, there is a very real reason why an entrepreneur, particularly a first-timer, should care about this online course catalog.
This means that the initiative to take a free online course on programming can be the key element that helps an art history major be a more viable candidate for a position at a tech company possibly even as a programmer.
The leak is a Powerpoint slideshow that apparently contains screenshots from an online course for sales people -- so there's been at least one twist in its journey before it reached us, and that's reason in itself to be a bit cautious.
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Babson Research Survey Group and College Board estimate that in the fall of 2010 6.1 million students took at least one online education course.
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About 13, 000 students from around the world will start taking an online statistics course at Wesleyan University in Connecticut next week using SAS On-Demand and the R language.
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Last year, Ray Cross, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges, told Inside Higher Ed that he expects some students will simply take a free MOOC (massive online open course) offered by another school and then opt to write their competency exam based on the what they learned therein or knowledge they acquired independently.
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Students take an online or classroom course that gives them a sense of whether they can handle the workload.
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An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college- or career-prep course online to earn a high school diploma.
To be sure, more than 6 million students in the U.S. are now taking at least one course online, and 65 percent of higher education institutions say online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy, according to a 2011 report from the Babson Survey Research Group .
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