The year of the MOOC
The paint is
barely dry, yet edX, the nonprofit start-up from Harvard
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 370,000 students this fall
in its first official courses. That’s nothing. Coursera,
founded just last January, has reached more than 1.7 million.
“I like to
call this the year of disruption,” says Anant Agarwal, president of edX, “and
the year is not over yet.”
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Antioch
University is the first US institution to receive approval from Coursera to
offer college credit for specified Coursera MOOCs (massive open online
courses). Through this new partnership, Antioch University and the Antioch
University Los Angeles campus can reduce student costs to complete a four-year
degree and expand course offerings through free online courses offered by the
highly respected universities that have partnered with Coursera. Culver City, October 29, 2012
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Online university courses have become the Next Big Thing for higher
education, particularly in the United States, where millions of students have
signed up for courses from some of the most upmarket universities.
But a major stumbling block has been how such digital courses are
assessed. When students are at home how do you know whether they are
cheating? How do you know the identity of the person answering the questions?
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Can education be democratized and the cost of each course reduced to
zero, similar to the entertainment industry?
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Let’s hear from students around the country and the world about their
experiences with free online higher education.
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