For instance, many American universities are providing free open courses online with Coursera, Academic Earth or their own platforms.
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Not all Open courses are equally hard, and sometimes a potentially difficult course is softened by rain and lack of wind.
But while the market for courses is strong at present, Hardie believes future growth will come more from custom than open courses, because many companies perceive them as offering better value for money.
This dramatically expands the possibilities associated with free online courses because distance and language will no longer be obstacles in testing for knowledge accrued in massive open online courses (or MOOCs).
Edinburgh University is offering what are known as massive open online courses (Moocs) through the Coursera consortium.
Colleges and universities are rushing to offer free online classes known as "massive open online courses, " or MOOCs.
The clearest example of the productivity effect of these technologies is the explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
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The OCL4Ed incorporates features used by the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to scale peer-learning support for thousands of concurrent students.
Massive open online courses, or so-called MOOCs, are opening up access to classes at a growing number of colleges and universities.
These have become known as Massive Open Online Courses - or MOOCs.
One is to celebrate the rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs) like the onset of the textbooks coupled with public libraries.
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However, what has really blown the virtual lid of online education numbers was the 2011 introduction of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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The course falls into the category of Massive Open Online Courses, (MOOC) and it is using the Coursera platform for the six week course.
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For each of the 30, 000 students on campus, another 10 are virtual students taking part in the free Massive Open Online Courses called MOOCs.
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Most business models for operators of massively open online courses (MOOCs) rely heavily on exam revenue to cover costs and generate a potential return for investors.
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Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses.
Yes, massive open online courses allow anyone with an Internet connection to log on and learn, but does it meet the learning needs of every student around the world?
The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses, " which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education.
Maroe expresses some lofty ideas about democratizing the hiring process, comparing Evisors to massive open online courses where students can take free classes from top-flight professors at schools like MIT and Princeton.
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Even the three institutions whose instructors teach those online courses Duke University, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Irvine so far don't plan to award credit to students who complete the massive open online courses, known as MOOCs.
Massive open online courses have the potential to alter how we teach and learn as a society, but unlike other methods that are steeped in centuries of trial and error, the MOOC concept remains experimental and unproven -- often criticized as better suited for edification than rigorous education.
Massive open online courses have the potential to alter how we teach and learn as a society, but unlike other methods that are steeped in centuries of trial and error, the MMOC concept remains experimental and unproven -- often criticized as better suited for edification than rigorous education.
With the rise of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from the top universities in the world, we are seeing just how even if school leaders or policymakers are slow to grant students meaningful and affordable educational choices, students can avail themselves of a myriad of educational choices anyway.
It's no good playing Celtic Manor (venue for the Wales Open) and the Dutch Open, both great courses, and then going over to a US Open, because they are completely different from what you're going to get in America.
Many business schools expect open-enrollment courses--ready-made exec-ed classes offered throughout the year--to be hurt by the downturn.
Many open-enrollment courses are now designed specifically to respond to current economic circumstances and evolving business models.
Students can access its massive, open, online courses (or MOOCs) free of charge.
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If such open access online courses no longer required A-levels as an entry exam, she raised the question about what this would mean for the future of the qualification.
Her co-founder and fellow Stanford professor Andrew Ng said the online courses would open up university to many more students and "credit-bearing college courses is a huge milestone toward that goal".
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