Advanced News Search
-
Learn Professional Photography onlineNew York Institute of Photography is the only online photography school to provide students access to a professional photography course through any internet connected device. It trains photographers of all skill levels around the globe.
-
Partnership to Expand Adoption of Open Educational ResourcesPartnership between open education services provider Lumen Learning and free textbooks publisher OpenStax College to help higher education institutions and faculty members successfully transition to using open educational resources.
-
Coursera courses to advance education and employment in Latin AmericaCarlos Slim Foundation, one of Mexico's top philanthropic organizations, and Coursera in a strategic partnership have teamed up to improve access to education and employment opportunities throughout Latin America. This initiative has been made with initial plans to translate 50 top Coursera courses by the end of 2014.
-
What’s Uni Like? - A MOOC in the MakingAustralia's Charles Sturt University (CSU) is developing a MOOC course titled "What's Uni like?" to promote higher education among students with funding from Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP). This course would be promoted at all Australian universities and higher education providers.
-
Blackboard plans a new online bookstorehttp://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blackboard-introduces-plans-for-new-online-bookstore-242572761.html
-
MOOC on Sustainable Development attracts more than 30,000 studentsJeffrey D. Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute and Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development at Columbia University, has launched his new free, online course on sustainable development. The 14-week course, The Age of Sustainable Development, is the latest MOOC) that Columbia has released on the Coursera platform. More than 30,000 students have now enrolled in Sachs’s online course.
-
Four best Yale University faculties teach MOOCsYale University has made its next step into MOOCs with its 14 years of experience in online education with its best four faculties offered via Coursera. It is considered to be a natural thing to teach MOOCs at this point of time stated one of the professors.
-
MOOCs are no longer a solitary experienceU.S. State Department has launched a new initiative to make online learning more interactive for learners across the globe. A pilot program called MOOC Camp is run in partnership with the MOOC provider, Coursera. MOOC Camp invites learners taking courses to gather at U.S. embassies, consulates and other places for a period of several weeks to discuss class content.
-
A MOOC for PhDs. to become next generation faculty"University Teaching 101", a MOOC from John Hopkins University is a six week course on the Coursera platform. It serves as a guide to PhD candidates who would like to become the next generation faculty at the university level.
-
Nobel Peace Prize winner teaches MOOCProfessor Richard Alley, a shared member of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is leading a MOOC on sustainability from his Penn State office. It is based on a PBS mini-series, hosted by Alley.