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OpenLearning launches courses 27 Oct 2012 | 01:36 am
OpenLearning, a new Australian startup, recently announced its first roster of 4 free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): UNSW Computing 1, Observing and Analysing Performance in Sport, and two marke...
U.S. social history 18 Oct 2012 | 12:09 am
For an illuminating view of life in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, check out Richard Candida-Smith’s Fall 2012 UC Berkeley course History 124A: The United States from the...
Still time to enroll in ModPo 3 Oct 2012 | 05:02 am
Coursera’s new course on Modern Poetry (a.k.a. ModPo) is one of the most delightful courses I’ve listened to in a long time. Most of the credit is due to the professor, Al Filreis of the University of...
When is a course not a course? 25 Sep 2012 | 04:54 am
You may have noticed that iTunesU has a new section on its front page entitled New Courses. And you may also have noticed that some of these courses are not really true university courses, but are ins...
Adventures in MOOC-land 7 Aug 2012 | 07:08 am
To hear Sebastian Thrun tell it, some folks like a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) even better than a real world lecture class. Thrun, the founder of Udacity, discovered that some of his Stanford Un...
New courses from Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley 25 Jul 2012 | 03:23 am
More news from the fast moving world of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): University of California at Berkeley has joined the edX consortium of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an...
Fantasy and Science Fiction 24 Jul 2012 | 07:39 am
In a traditional literature class, students read, discuss and write about their interpretations of literary texts. But can a literature class work as a MOOC — a Massive Open Online Course with thousan...
The MOOCs have landed! 19 Jul 2012 | 06:25 am
“What is a MOOC,” you ask. It’s the newly trendy acronym for Massive Open Online Course – the kind of free online course on offer at startups Coursera and Udacity, and being planned at the Harvard-MIT...
Power Searching with Google 12 Jul 2012 | 06:05 am
It’s happened to all of us. You open your browser for a quick Google search, but but you find yourself sorting through dozens of useless pages. So, the folks at Google have a solution: a short online ...
Guide to MIT Open Courseware 7 Jul 2012 | 03:23 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been in the free online course business longer than just about everyone else. Its website is chock full of exciting riches, but navigating the site can be a c...
