moocs for credit

edX has partnered with Charter Oak State College, Connecticut's public online college, to provide students with a unique opportunity to be awarded transferrable credit for work completed in selected edX courses. This partnership will give students from all backgrounds an affordable and flexible...

MOOCs (Massive open online courses), being free and open to anyone, don't usually award college credit to graduates. Recently, however, some higher education institutions have partnered with the major MOOC platforms to deliver the first MOOCs with the option to gain credit. Although these...

The Texas State University System (TSUS) in partnership with the Modern States Education Alliance are planning a program allowing students to earn up to one full year of college credit tuition-free, reducing the cost of a degree by up to 25 percent. TSUS is the first public university system in...

IESA Multimédia, a Multimedia training institution based in Paris, has partnered with OpenClassrooms to offer the first MOOC-based Bachelor Degree programs recognised by the French State. The three learning pathways in engineering, design and digital marketing will be delivered through the...

The University of Illinois College of Business has partnered with Coursera to launch the first online MBA delivered in part through the Coursera platform. This program is ideal if you’re interested in an MBA, or if you’re simply interested in the individual Specializations in the program...

Georgia Tech offers an online Master’s degree program in computer science delivered through the Udacity MOOC platform. The cost of the full online program is approximately $6,600 with individual courses also accessible free of charge via the Udacity platform. The full program is comparable to a...

edX has partnered with Arizona State University to create Global Freshman Academy, a first of its kind collaboration that offers full university freshman level courses for credit. Courses are online and open to anyone with no application or transcripts required. Arizona State University is...