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Coursera Online Education platform introduces 29 New Universities, 92 New Courses, 5 Languages for its 2.7 Million Students

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Coursera online education platform, is welcoming 29 new universities to the online learning community of 2.7 million students and 33 existing universities across 4 continents. With this development, the online education provider is nearly doubling the amount of schools offering courses on the platform, creating diverse learning opportunities for students. 16 of the 29 new … Read more

Top UK universities partner with Open University to launch free online courses

Open University Online Course

Recently, online education technology has evolved rapidly that one would have hardly anticipated the huge leap within a space of one year. Thanks to education-focused start-ups who have made it possible to share lectures with students all over the world at little to zero costs and in some cases have made it easier for teachers … Read more

MOOCs – The quest to educate One billion people freely

Educate One Billion

“The cost of illiteracy as well as the huge cost of formal literacy is one of the major financial and social burdens of the societies.” MOOC – Massive open online course technology is bringing enormous change to the way we learn. It wouldn’t be too ambitious to say that open online tech start-ups brings the … Read more

17 New Universities Join Coursera to bring free Courses Online

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Today, Coursera announced 17 new universities – including four international universities- have signed agreements with the education technology company to bring courses online for free, in the fields of music, medicine, humanities, and courses on financial engineering, risk management among other courses from renowned professors. Here’s a list of the new universities added on Wednesday: … Read more

Networked Life – Online Course by Coursera to start on 10 September 2012 (6 weeks long)

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Next session: 10 September 2012 (6 weeks long) The course will seek to answer the following questions: What science underlies companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google? How does your position in a social network (dis)advantage you? What do game theory and the Paris subway have to do with Internet routing? How might a social network influence … Read more

Elite Universities offer their most popular courses online at no cost – A major milestone in expanding online education

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From Harvard to Stanford, a growing number of elite universities are throwing open their digital doors to the masses. They’re offering their most popular courses online for no charge, allowing anyone from any part of the world with an Internet connection to learn from world-renowned scholars and scientists. Many colleges have offered Web-based courses for … Read more

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