More than five million students worldwide have registered for classes.
You can forget about the Socratic method when it comes to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC’s), like those offered by Coursera, Udacity and edX.
Coursera moves closer to academic acceptance
Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Stanford University computer science professors who started Coursera,
Coursera, an online-education provider is one step closer to academic acceptance, saying Thursday that the American Council on Education would recommend colleges grant credit for the successful completion of some of its free classes.
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College credit eyed for massive open online courses
A pilot project will determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit.
While MOOC’s, massive open online courses, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges by making hem eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses.
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Will academia be destroyed by massive open online courses?
MOOC is massive open online course
Recently there have been many discussions over the topic of MOOCs. MOOC stands for a massive open online course. It is a tuition-free course taught over the Web to a large number of students.
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