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An Australian University has 20,000 students enrolled for its first MOOC"Introduction to Systems Engineering" is a MOOC offered by an Australian University through the Coursera platform. More than 20,000 students enrolled for the course even before its launch on April 28, 2014.
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Credits offered for MOOCs in Hong KongA Hong Kong University in partnership with Coursera launches a pilot programme this summer to offer students the chance to earn credit through MOOCs. To gain credits the students have to do six weeks of face-to-face work on campus.
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Investigative Journalism for the Digital Age - Learn from the best investigative journalists in the U.S.Investigative journalism being the most highly-regarded branch of the profession is explored in a MOOC "Investigative Journalism for the Digital Age" by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. It is a five week course taught in English by the best investigative journalists in U.S.
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Instructure launches an Educational Apps centerInstructure, an LMS provider, has launched EduAppCenter.com as an open resource to Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) catalog that allows users to incorporate more than 130 education apps into their own LMS or education environment. The apps that are available in EduAppCenter.com would integrate with most LMS vendors in K-12 and higher ed for creating what the company calls "an open education technology ecosystem" for education.
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A baseball-centered MOOCs on edXA U.S. University is launching a MOOC "Sabermetrics 101: Introduction to Baseball Analytics" on edX which allows students around the world to take university classes free, for no credit. The course is the statistical analysis of baseball that will introduce students to the rudiments of the field.
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A MOOC course on NeurobiologyA free MOOC course on Coursera, "Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life" is a 10-week course for people from all walks of life who are interested in the workings of the brain and the nervous system. The course primarily will cover neuroanatomy, neural communication, and neural systems.
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First Greek Entrepreneur MOOC on CourseraThe U.S. Embassy in Athens in partnership with ALBA Graduate Business School has offered a MOOC course on entrepreneurship in Greek through the online MOOC provider Coursera. The course offers practical information for students on how aspiring entrepreneurs can identify and tap into available resources and get support from intermediary organizations and networks such as incubators and accelerators.
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Udacity cuts free course certificates for its learnersUdacity will no longer provide free course completion certificates for its learners. Though the students can still take the course for free, they have to pay to get a verified certificate.
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Open Source materials provided by a University Professor for MOOCsA MOOC course "Programming for Everybody" taught at the Coursera platform has Open Source materials provided by a professor at the University of Michigan. It is an introductory programming course that provides the learning materials free of cost to course participants.
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A revolutionary MOOC for closing the skills gapAquent Gymnasium launches a revolutionary MOOC "jQuery Building Blocks: 5 Ways to Cut Your Web Development Time in Half" aimed at closing the skills gap faced by creative organizations worldwide. It is mainly designed for web professionals with a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.