MOOC

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==**MOOC** is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education. ==

==**The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics** has 4 MOOCs on JMOOC. for example, Introductory Applied Informatics Instructors: Toshihide Ibaraki, Keiji Emi, Harufumi Ueda, Sahoko Nagura, and Toshio Okamoto.==



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== 2012 **-** MIT launched the MITx in order to develop a free and open online platform. Harvard, University of California, Berkeley, University of Texas System, Wellesley College and the Georgetown University joined the initiative and renamed it to edX.==

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== On October 15, 2012 The University of New South Wales in Australia launched UNSW Computing 1, the first MOOC by an Australian University. The course was also the first MOOC to run on OpenLearning, an online learning platform developed in Australia, which provides features for group work, automated marking, collaboration and gamification.==

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== In March 15, 2012 Researchers Dr. Jorge Ramió and Dr. Alfonso Muñoz from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid successfully launched the first Spanish MOOC titled Crypt4you.== == In June 18 2012, Ali Lemus from Galileo University launches the first Latin American MOOC titled "Desarrollando Aplicaciones para iPhone y iPad". This MOOC is a Spanish remix of Stanford University's popular "CS 193P iPhone Application Development" and had 5,380 students enrolled.==

MOOC providers have also emerged in other countries, including Iversity in Germany.


==**In January 2013**, [|Udacity] launched MOOCs-for-credit, in collaboration with San Jose State University. This was followed in May 2013 by the announcement of the first-ever entirely MOOC-based Master's Degree, a collaboration between Udacity, AT&T and the [|Georgia Institute of Technology], costing $7,000. Udacity's CS101, with an enrollment of over 300,000 students, is the largest MOOC to date.==

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==In Brazil, Veduca launched the first MOOCs in Brazil, in partnership with the University of São Paulo in June 2013. In the first two weeks since the launching event, that took place at Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in June 12, 2013, more than 10,000 students have enrolled in the courses.==

==In March 2013, Coursolve introduced crowdsourced, real-world problem solving to MOOCs. In a pilot implementation, 100 organizations participated in a University of Virginia business strategy course by collaborating with students on strategic analyses that met their needs. A follow-up implementation in a data science MOOC began in May 2013.==

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==In June 2013, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill launched Skynet University, which offers MOOCs on the sole topic of introductory astronomy. Participants gain access to the university's global network of robotic telescopes, including telescopes in the Chilean Andes and Australia. Skynet University incorporates popular social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.==

==In 2013 edX released its open source software to the world, allowing anyone, including for-profit companies, to use it. Rather than contributing courses to edx.org, others can now create their own instance of edX. Within the same instance of Open edX, they can launch SPOCs (Small, Private Online Courses) or EPICs (Enterprise Private Internet-enabled Courses, essentially a MOOC within their company). Companies such as McKinsey, Johnson & Johnson, InterSystems and medical device manufacturer Ethicon are using edX to educate employees, customers, partners, and prospects, as well as in their recruiting. MongoDB was one of the first companies to adopt Open edX as a corporate MOOC, and invested in university.mongodb.com where it offers free online courses and certifications in its core product. Whereas before MongoDB could only train 1,800 people per year with in-person training, with its Open edX-powered site, the company had 14,000 persons take its online courses in the same time period.==

Top 10 Sites for Information about MOOCs:

 * 1) ==[|Udemy Free Courses] – Udemy is an example of a site allows anyone to build or take online courses. Udemy’s site exclaims, “Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.” [|The New York Times] reported that Udemy, “recently announced a new Faculty Project, in which award-winning professors from universities like Dartmouth, the University of Virginia and Northwestern offer free online courses. Its co-founder, Gagen Biyani, said the site has more than 100,000 students enrolled in its courses, including several, outside the Faculty Project, that charge fees.”==
 * 2) ==[|ITunesU Free Courses] – Apple’s free app “gives students access to all the materials for courses in a single place. Right in the app, they can play video or audio lectures. Read books and view presentations.”==
 * 3) ==[|Stanford Free Courses] - From Quantum Mechanics to The Future of the Internet, Stanford offers a variety of free courses. [|Stanford’s – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence] was highly successful. According to [|Pontydysgu.org,] “160000 students from 190 countries signed up to Stanford’s Introduction to AI” course, with 23000 reportedly completing.” [|Check out Stanford’s Engineering Everywhere link].==
 * 4) ==[|UC Berkeley Free Courses] – From General Biology to Human Emotion, Berkley offers a variety of courses. Check out: [|Berkeley Webcasts] and [|Berkeley RSS Feeds].==
 * 5) ==[|MIT Free Courses] – Check out [|MIT’s RSS MOOC feed]. Also see: [|MIT’s Open Courseware].==
 * 6) ==[|Duke Free Courses] – Duke offers a variety of courses on ITunesU.==
 * 7) ==[|Harvard Free Courses] – From Computer Science to Shakespeare, students may now get a free Harvard education. “Take a class for professional development, enrichment, and degree credit. Courses run in the fall, spring, or intensive January session. No application is required.”==
 * 8) ==[|UCLA Free Courses] – Check out [|free courses such as their writing program that offers over 220 online writing courses each year.]==
 * 9) ==[|Yale Free Courses] – At Open Yale, the school offers “free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish to learn.”==
 * 10) ==[|Carnegie Mellon Free Courses] – Carnegie Mellon boosts “No instructors, no credits, no charge.”==

= Platforms for MOOC =

**Coursera** - Social entrepreneurship company partnering with 33 top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
== edX- It differs from other MOOC platforms, such as [|Coursera] and [|Udacity], in that it is nonprofit and runs on an [|open-source software] platform.==

==Udacity - Udacity was born out of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course online to anyone, for free. Over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled and not much later, Udacity was born. Now we're a growing team of educators and engineers on a mission to change the future of education. By making high-quality classes affordable and accessible for students across the globe: Udacity is democratizing education. To learn more about our courses see our [|course catalog]==

**Futurelearn -** is a private company owned by the Open University.
== **Open2Study **provides Free High Quality Online Education for Everybody - an initiative of Open Universities Australia, //Open2Study// brings you the best in online education with our four week introductory subjects. ==

==**Ed2Go ** - a new resource that makes it easy for you to take free high-quality courses and career training programs online. The site has several demo lessons. ==

=Do It Yourself University=

==DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Educationis a book about the future of higher education.==



= TED ( **Technology, Entertainment, Design)** Talks on Distance Education =


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==Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away the tools, simulators, chip specifications and other building blocks -- they were surprised that thousands jumped at the opportunity to learn, working independently as well as organizing their own classes in the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). A call to forget about grades and tap into the self-motivation to learn.==

==The official companion web site of Nand2Tetris courses and of the book //The Elements of Computing Systems//, MIT Press, By [|Noam Nisan] and [|Shimon Schocken.]The site contains all the software tools and project materials necessary to build a general-purpose computer system from the ground up. They also provide a set of lectures designed to support a typical course on the subject.==

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With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them.
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In the fall of 2011 Peter Norvig taught a class with Sebastian Thrun on artificial intelligence at Stanford attended by 175 students -- and over 100,000 via an interactive webcast.
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Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects.
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