A Massive open online course (MOOC) is a course where the participants are distributed and course materials also are dispersed across the web. This is possible only if the course is open, and works significantly better if the course is large. The course is not a gathering, but rather a way of connecting distributed instructors and learners across a common topic or field of discourse.
Article:
http://community.paper.li/2013/05/28/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-the-online-learning-platforms/
Options:
EdX – A Not-for-profit enterprise with MIT and Harvard universities as founding partners.
Coursera – A social entrepreneurship company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University.
NovoEd – Rebranded version of Stanford’s Venture Lab, with a special focus on students collaboration and real-world course projects.
Udacity – Udacity was an outgrowth of a Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ course online for free in which over 160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled.
Futurelearn – The first UK-led multi-institutional platform, partnering with 17 UK universities, offering MOOC to students around the world. It is a private company owned by the Open University.
OpenUpEd – First Pan-European MOOC initiative, with support of the European commission. It includes partners from 11 countries.
iversity – A company with a diverse interdisciplinary team from Berlin presently offering MOOC production fellowship and collaboration network for academia.
Open2Study – An initiative of Open Universities Australia which itself is a leading provider online education through collaboration of several Australian universities.
Canvas – An open, online course network that connects students, teachers & institutions
10gen Education – an online learning platform run by 10gen (the MongoDB company)
OpenLearning
Class2Go – UWA
Class2Go – Stanford – Now in maintenance mode. Will be merged with edX platform.
MRUniversity – Focusing on economics courses, founded by two GMU professors
Academic Earth
P2PU – Peer to Peer University is a non-profit online community based learning platform, founded with funding from the Hewlett Foundation and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
Udemy – An online learning platform that allows anyone to host their video courses.
Caltech’s ‘Learning From Data’ Course
OpenHPI – The educational Internet platform of the German Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, focusing on courses in Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
UoPeople – University of the People (UoPeople) is a tution-free, non-profit, online academic institution offering undergraduate programs in Business Administration and Computer Science.
Saylor – a non-profit organization that provides over 280 free, self-paced courses.
World Education University – WEU
CourseSites MOOCs
Open Learning Initiative – CMU
Unimooc
iDESWEB
http://www.class-central.com/ – Aggregator
http://oyc.yale.edu/ – Yale
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ – The open university
http://singularityu.org/ – Singularity University
http://www.skillsoft.com/
http://www.skillshare.com/ – skills from teachers
http://www.straighterline.com/
http://www.statistics.com/ – statistics courses
https://venture-lab.org/
http://www.leeaarn.com – Collaborative University for Entrepreneurs – French
http://kelbytraining.com/ – learning with the Pros
http://www.learnitanytime.com/ – Online SW training
http://teamtreehouse.com/ – A better way to learn technology
http://pluralsight.com/training – hardcore development training
http://www.lynda.com/ – SW, business and creative skills
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/ – Itunes U
http://www.codeschool.com/ – learning by doing
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ – Berkeley
http://see.stanford.edu/see/faq.aspx – Stanford
http://itunes.duke.edu/ – Duke
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative – Harvard
https://www.uclaextension.edu/pages/search.aspx?c=free+courses – UCLA
http://www.openculture.com/free_certificate_courses – 375 MOOCs from Great Universities – Free
http://www.creativelive.com/ – workshops
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/
http://www.learnstreet.com/ – coding starts here
https://learnable.com/ – web development and design
http://mruniversity.com/ – online economics courses
http://mixergy.com/goto/welcome/ – learn from entrepreneurs
http://miriadax.net/ – Spain – MOOC
http://academy.mises.org/ – Austrian School of Economics online courses
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ – India – MOOC
http://www.iversity.org/ – education for everyone
http://www.universalclass.com/
http://www.floatinguniversity.com/
http://etmooc.org – education, technology and media
http://www.digitaltutors.com – Professional CG, VFX & Digital Art Training
http://www.drawspace.com/ – learn to draw
http://p2pu.org – a grassroots open education project
http://www.khanacademy.org
https://generalassemb.ly/
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm – MIT OPenCourseware
https://developer.mozilla.org
http://www.codecademy.com
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/
http://alison.com/ – certified learning
http://oli.cmu.edu/ – MIT Open Learning Initiative
http://www.w3schools.com/ – Oline web tutorials
http://mashable.com/2013/03/13/learn-to-code-free/ – Learn to code free
http://www.opentextbook.org – a registry of textbooks (and related materials) which are free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute
http://www.degreed.com/ – network to document on-line courses taken
http://www.learndash.com/19-kick-butt-tools-for-elearning/ – tools for e-learning
Entrepreneurship:
http://www.mooc-list.com/tags/entrepreneurship
http://www.mooc-list.com/course/technology-entrepreneurship-venture-lab
http://www.mooc-list.com/tags/technology
