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A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on atten 
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Towards the end of 2022 I wrote a post about the turbulence being experienced by online education companies that partner with universities. This was on the back of a raft of negative company announcements about their performance and financial health. There’s been a number of changes since then an
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Bite-sized courses give learners a free taste of online learning in career-relevant topics, creating new on-ramps to in-demand tech and business training programs
Peter Mellow's insight:
Mini-MOOCs!
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FutureLearn’s subscription plan is now comparable in price to Coursera’s, but it doesn’t offer nearly as much.
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Curtin University is Western Australia's largest and most culturally diverse university, with over 50,000 students from over 130 countries. As a world-class, internationally focused institution, Curtin’s mission is to change minds, lives and the world through leadership, innovation and excellence in teaching and research.
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The class focuses on things teens can do to feel happier — making social connections, maintaining a sense of free time and being more "other" oriented.
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Explore an innovative approach to teaching and learning using educational technologies to improve online learning opportunities with this online course from the University of Southern Queensland.
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Futurelearn accounts read like the script of a disaster movie. Nearly 10 years I wrote a piece questioning their choice of CEO (he cam
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In 2015 I converted my introductory astronomy course ASTR1001 into a set of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and released them for free to everyone in the world. They have been running ever since to rave reviews and have been taken by 400,000 plus students: more than the ANU has graduated in its entire history.
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Article: JIME Virtual Special Collection – 2012 to 2022: The Decade of the MOOC
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Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says tha
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Ten years ago when two Stanford professors started Coursera, many of the big-name colleges the company partnered with offered few online courses. An
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Two online learning experts share lessons gained during a decade of developing and refining massive open online courses (Moocs)
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Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.
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Comprehensive list of online course platforms worldwide, offering hundreds of thousands of courses.
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To get an overview of the topics and trends in the research on MOOCs, Class Central has created a list of the most cited research papers on MOOCs.
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The brothers announced their new educational initiative, Study Hall, a partnership with Arizona State University and YouTube.
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1000s of courses with free certificates and badges from universities, companies, and nonprofits worldwide.
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It’s free, self-paced and highly recommended for anyone in their first few years of university teaching.
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When Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were first introduced about a decade ago, many higher education professionals viewed this new arrival as
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Universities will also need to carefully consider the relative merits of housing courses on, and offering them via a MOOC platform as opposed to doing this themselves. Whilst it’s easy to make a fairly unsophisticated argument that going it alone means not incurring any 3rd party costs, HEIs need to conduct a cost benefit analysis in reference to their strategy to come to sound decisions.
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Forum discussions have been utilised widely as a means of facilitating learning interaction and social-knowledge construction in online learning. Much research has been conducted on the instructional interventions that benefit asynchronous discussions. Role-playing, or assigning roles to discussants, has been proven effective in promoting interactivity and knowledge construction in the context of both face-to-face and online learning. However, assigning and rotating roles to thousands of learners in massive open online courses (MOOCs) and preparing them to act properly in their roles sounds impractical to MOOC instructors due to work overload. The present study provided three types of role assignment in a MOOC during various course offerings: fall offerings with no role-assignment, spring offerings with partial role-assignment and summer offerings with full role-assignment. Through the examination of the discussion patterns and role-assignment differences among 4,239 students and 5,439 posts in 56 forums, we suggest that partial role-assignment is as effective as full-role assignment. By assigning as few as 10 students with rotating roles, MOOC instructors can leverage this effective strategy while minimising their effort in preparing the discussants and moderating the discussions. These students act behind the scenes and improve the behavioural patterns of asynchronous discussions.
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In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Coursera went public, while edX was acquired by the public company 2U for $800 million and lost its non-profit status.
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A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated i
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