M.O.O.C.

M.O.O.C.s = Massive Open Online Courses

These are free creditless massive courses offered in partnership with some of the biggest universities in the world.  They offer courses from many different disciplines and in many different subjects.  Maybe over the Christmas holiday you can take a course and get a certificate.  Some examples are: Coursera , EdX and Udacity.  If you would like more click here and here.  Also here is a list of 1500 free online courses.

Teacher Professional Development and MOOCS

I blogged earlier about Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCS).  See my post on May 2 2013 by clicking here.

 Coursera was one of them and has now added a new category of courses that I thought might interest you, Teacher Professional Development.  To see the course selection click here.

M.O.O.C.s

M.O.O.C.s = Massive Open Online Courses
These are free creditless massive courses offered in partnership with some of the biggest universities in the world.  They offer courses from many different disciplines and in many different subjects.
Some examples are:

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Coursera which started with Stanford and now is in partnership with 62 major universities.

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Edx was started in partnership with Harvard and MIT.

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Udacity was started by Sebastian Thrun of Stanford.  In fact he got the MOOCs started when he introduced his artificial  intelligence course online for free.

CBC's The National had a short documentary about MOOCs yesterday.  Below is the youtube video of it.