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Tuition-free Universities in GermanyGermans believe that free university education is a basic human right and it is socially unjust to collect tuition-fees that would discourage students from continuing their education. Beginning this week all German Universities will offer free higher education for students including international students.
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Khan Academy Videos translatedThe popular Khan Academy videos are translated into Tamil, an Indian language as a pilot project to test it among school children. The videos. a hit among children worldwide, are expected to help face the ignominy of a high pupil-teacher ratio in Indian Classrooms.
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A new MOOC course to Understand video gameThe University of Alberta in USA is aiming to teach students and the public at large, a higher understanding of the world of gaming with its MOOC course "Understanding Video Games". It is delivered as 11-lesson course on the Coursera platform and available to everyone for free. The students of the University who take up the course get three credits.
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BBC offers MOOCs on WWIThe BBC along with four British Universities is creating a MOOC about World War One, which will be available via FutureLearn.com. Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds and The Open University will each deliver a web-based course exploring an aspect of WW1. These courses are open to anyone and starts between October and November 2014.
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A MOOC course for K-12 EducatorsThe course "Supporting English Language Learners under New Standards" is intended to help K-12 teachers support English language learners. It runs for eight weeks and is open to teachers from all around the world.
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Bilingual MOOC on creativity"Creativity, Innovation and Change" is a bilingual MOOC course offered by Penn State in English and Chinese. The Coursera-hosted course will explore the science of creativity. It is likely that the dual-language offering will make the Chinese enrollment in the MOOC the largest of any country other than the United States.
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A free self-paced MOOC on "Functional Programming with Clojure""Functional Programming with Clojure" is a self-paced MOOC based on an undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. This involves 120 hours with an introduction to Clojure, its syntax and development environment.
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Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, offers MOOCs on edXBirla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India, is joining edX as a contributing member and will offer MOOCs to reach out to students outside its campus. It is to offer 60 courses over a period of 3 years. The courses will enable self-paced learning with a variety of online digital content including recorded videos, online exercises and computer-based simulations.
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MOOC on Data, Analytics and Learning taught by George SiemensA US university in Texas is offering "Data, Analytics and Learning" through the edX platform. This MOOC is taught by George Siemens, the man credited with co-creating the MOOC model in 2008. The course will focus on data-driven teaching approaches and analysis in education.
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Lifelong learning platform for IT workersOnlineITcourses is a lifelong-learning platform for IT workers. The users will have continuous access to the extensive courses upon payment of a yearly fee. They will have access to a great variety of courses which focus upon various aspects of IT.