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MOOC by a leading U.S. university on SustainabilityA leading U.S. university is offering a MOOC on "Sustainable Design: Principles and Methodologies" based on the university's innovative M.S. in Sustainable Design program. This eight week course would incorporate sustainability principles in the built environment.
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An online summer course exclusively for alumniA U.S. university is offering a free MOOC course "Content Strategy for Professionals: Engaging Audiences for Your Organization", exclusively for its alumni and friends. It is designed for professionals to understand the audiences better and improve communication.
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Qualt - A new mobile MOOC platform for professionalsQualt is the first mobile MOOC platform to deliver free access to recognized training for job seekers. The courses on this platform is based on courses developed by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), Google, the Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM) and other professional bodies.
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Learn coding to unleash your creativity"Creative Coding" is a course to learn programming by authoring your own creative programs. The MOOC course on Future Learn platform introduces computer programming as a creative discipline to generate sounds, images, animation and much more.
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Edraak - A new Arab MOOC platform launchedEdraak is an online Arab MOOC platform. It is an initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development powered by Open edX platform. The platform will deliver courses developed by edX in Arabic as well as original Arabic courses. All courses are delivered for free.
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Trinidad and Tobago will have the first online learning network designed for an entire countryTrinidad and Tobago in the West Indies is pioneering an ambitious online learning project. To raise the skills needed for the country to compete, the government is forming a partnership with Coursera to provide online learning materials. It has created "national Knowledge network" to promote free online learning.
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New Zealand's Government call universities to offer MOOCsNew Zealand Government calls the tertiary sector together to discuss whether MOOCs could be a way forward in education. The Government has issued a discussion paper that states modern technology could affect education as much as previous shifts including the invention of the printing press.
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The Ivy League Dartmouth College will offer MOOCs on edXBy early 2015 Dartmouth College will offers four MOOC courses on the edX platform on introductory environmental science, 19th-century American literature, introductory opera and engineering structural forms. It is offered as an experimental way of learning and apply what works in online courses to the traditional classroom setting.
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An accredited MOOC from Penn State university"Presumed Innocent? The Social Science of Wrongful Convictions", is a MOOC from U.S' Penn State University, that would employ the perspective of the social scientist to understand why and how wrongful convictions occur. Anyone can register for for-credit course post a window of time in which users can preview the MOOC.
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Learn traditional healing methods through a MOOCCuranderismo is an art of traditional healing in some parts of U.S. Though it was offered as a summer class in a university will be available for everyone as a MOOC course in the Coursera platform late in August 2014. The course would have traditional healers explaining their work.