MOOCs Provider Directory
About Us:
While scholars, administrators, the media, politicians, wall street, and many others are involved in deep and philosophical discussions on the impact and value of Massive Open Online Courses - This site is not.
Singular objective here is to provide a simple central directory of existing free Massive Open Online Courses available in K-12, Higher Education and Other areas for students, parents, teachers, counselors, tutors, working adults, the unemployed, retirees, and others.
Regardless of your personal opinion on the value of these Massive Open Online Courses, the current reality for many low income, and underserved student populations in the US, and globally is that these free open courses from some of the world's leading experts is a partial win of the "Educational Access Lottery". Partial because winning the full lottery would require adding free broadband access, and credit options for their MOOCs courses.
Initially, most of the MOOCs providers included here are mainly North American providers, but with the help of site visitors like yourself, we hope to continue updating this directory with information on new global providers.
If you can help us update this directory, please send your suggestions and links to info@moocs.co.
While scholars, administrators, the media, politicians, wall street, and many others are involved in deep and philosophical discussions on the impact and value of Massive Open Online Courses - This site is not.
Singular objective here is to provide a simple central directory of existing free Massive Open Online Courses available in K-12, Higher Education and Other areas for students, parents, teachers, counselors, tutors, working adults, the unemployed, retirees, and others.
Regardless of your personal opinion on the value of these Massive Open Online Courses, the current reality for many low income, and underserved student populations in the US, and globally is that these free open courses from some of the world's leading experts is a partial win of the "Educational Access Lottery". Partial because winning the full lottery would require adding free broadband access, and credit options for their MOOCs courses.
Initially, most of the MOOCs providers included here are mainly North American providers, but with the help of site visitors like yourself, we hope to continue updating this directory with information on new global providers.
If you can help us update this directory, please send your suggestions and links to info@moocs.co.
MOOCs are free non-degree online courses with open unlimited global enrollment to anyone who desires to learn, and regardless of their current educational level.
About MOOCs:
Today, MOOCs provide access to many of the same courses being taught at some of the world's leading universities, and by leading scholars and industry experts in all areas: From Computer Science to Economics to Medicine to Literature to Engineering to Social Sciences and others.
To date in the K-12 segment, MOOCs largely concentrated in tutor-style courses to assist students in specific subjects: Math, English, Science, etc. However, it is anticipated that MOOCs similar in structure to those being offered in the higher education space will be soon be coming from some of the world's leading schools, their faculty and other professionals.
While most are non-credit bearing, some are starting to offer certificates, enhanced learning services and credit options at additional costs. However,none of these additional options are required to sign up and take advantage of these free courses.
In addition, some MOOCs students are starting to submit their MOOCs course work for credit recognition by their current colleges and universities.
The majority of MOOCs are in English, but increasingly - we are seeing some of these being translated by the MOOCs' online student community themselves. It is also anticipated that multi-lingual MOOCs will be growing with the increased participation of leading international universities.
Enrollment is done online at the MOOCs provider sites.
Today, MOOCs provide access to many of the same courses being taught at some of the world's leading universities, and by leading scholars and industry experts in all areas: From Computer Science to Economics to Medicine to Literature to Engineering to Social Sciences and others.
To date in the K-12 segment, MOOCs largely concentrated in tutor-style courses to assist students in specific subjects: Math, English, Science, etc. However, it is anticipated that MOOCs similar in structure to those being offered in the higher education space will be soon be coming from some of the world's leading schools, their faculty and other professionals.
While most are non-credit bearing, some are starting to offer certificates, enhanced learning services and credit options at additional costs. However,none of these additional options are required to sign up and take advantage of these free courses.
In addition, some MOOCs students are starting to submit their MOOCs course work for credit recognition by their current colleges and universities.
The majority of MOOCs are in English, but increasingly - we are seeing some of these being translated by the MOOCs' online student community themselves. It is also anticipated that multi-lingual MOOCs will be growing with the increased participation of leading international universities.
Enrollment is done online at the MOOCs provider sites.