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.

Coursera

I have posted about MOOCS several times in the past. You can just type in MOOCS in the search box in the top left to see the previous postings.  Coursera has just added 13 new institutues to their family.  The new institutes are: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Koç University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), IESE Business School, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), National Geographic Society, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Saint Petersburg State University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Università Bocconi, University of Lausanne, and University of Manchester.  In honour of this Coursera put out the following infographic.  If you would like to go to their site and see their free courses 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.