moocs

  1. Carolyn

    Types of free or low-cost course providers

    1. MOOC Platforms MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course: a free educational course which is delivered online and is open to anyone wishing to enrol. MOOCs are often delivered by renowned professors from famous universities and typically feature a blend of video content, quizzes...
  2. Stanford Online

    MOOC Platform Stanford Online

    Stanford Online is a website offering 100+ free online courses taught by Stanford faculty to lifelong learners worldwide. The site offers both scheduled and self-paced courses categorised into 10 subject areas and offered through a number of different platforms, including Coursera, NovoEd and...
  3. Eliademy

    Crowdsourced Eliademy

    Eliademy is a free online educational platform that allows educators, organisations and students to create, share and manage online courses with real-time discussions and task management. The Finland based platform offers a wide range of both free and low-cost courses in multiple languages...
  4. Qualt

    MOOC Platform Qualt

    Qualt is the first mobile professional skills MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform to deliver free access to internationally-recognised training for professionals. Qualt offers a series of entry-level, free professional training courses that are explicitly linked to career development and...
  5. Springboard

    Online Courses Springboard

    Springboard offers online, flexible, mentor-led courses including free Learning Paths, Workshops, and Career Tracks with a job guarantee where students who don’t get hired within six months of graduation get a 100% tuition refund. Each Springboard student gets paired with an industry mentor who...
  6. Janux

    MOOC Platform Janux

    Janux is an online interactive learning community created in partnership between The University of Oklahoma and technology company NextThought. It gives students direct connections to courses, educational resources, faculty, and each other, offering interactive content and social tools. All...
  7. Academic Earth

    Open Courseware Academic Earth

    Academic Earth curates links to free online courses from some of the world’s top universities. The site also features an ongoing series of original videos from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale which can be shared by the Academic Earth community. The platform doesn’t host the...
  8. OpenLearn

    Open Courseware OpenLearn

    OpenLearn is the Open University's access point for its open and free online resources, with the aim of providing free online education, open to anyone, anywhere in the world. The courses operate on four levels - introductory, intermediate, advanced and masters – and include interactive tools...
  9. Open Education powered by Blackboard

    Crowdsourced Open Education powered by Blackboard

    Open Education is a cloud based platform powered by the latest Blackboard technology which allows educators to publish courses or course content as Open Education Resources. Learners have access to over 300 free online courses from over 100 different educational institutions covering a range of...
  10. Saylor Academy

    MOOC Platform Saylor Academy

    Saylor Academy provides free, open, university-like classes in partnership with colleges, universities, and businesses. The Academy offer nearly 100 full-length courses at the college and professional levels available on your schedule, and free of cost. All courses are self-paced and are...
  11. Alison

    Free Alison

    Ireland-based Alison is one of the world's largest free online learning websites and offers courses geared at enabling people to gain basic education and workplace skills with a strong learner base located in the developing world. Over 750 free courses are offered at Diploma or Certificate level...
  12. Canvas Network

    MOOC Platform Canvas Network

    Canvas Network is an open, online course platform launched by the American educational software company Instructure and powered by the Canvas open source learning management system (LMS). The platform allows institutions to provide classes to the public, setting their own course structure and...
  13. Open2Study

    MOOC Platform Open2Study

    Open2Study no longer offers free courses. The site now only offers paid Accredited online courses available via Open Universities Australia. Open2Study is an initiative of Open Universities Australia which itself is an Australian leader in accredited online education through collaboration of...
  14. OpenUpEd

    MOOC Platform OpenUpEd

    OpenUpEd works as a MOOC aggregator site for higher education, partnering with higher education institutions across 12 European countries. The site offers high-quality learner-centred courses that are designed for self-learning, and to be taken by either informal learners or formal students in a...
  15. iversity

    MOOC Platform iversity

    iversity.org is an education platform that offers online courses in collaboration with universities, companies and NGOs. The company, originally founded in 2011, was the first European platform to offer Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as the first platform globally that offered...
  16. FutureLearn

    MOOC Platform FutureLearn

    FutureLearn is a UK-based MOOC platform wholly owned by The Open University and The SEEK Group, and offers a diverse selection of free courses from leading universities and internationally renowned organisations from around the world. Users can browse the individual course list or take...
  17. Udacity

    MOOC Platform Udacity

    Overview Udacity offer cutting-edge online courses built in partnership with leading companies like Google, AT&T, and Facebook on everything from mastering web design to tech entrepreneurship. All courses are developed with input from leading education and industry experts. The content is...
  18. EdX

    MOOC Platform EdX

    EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) from the world’s top universities, colleges and organizations. With more than 90 global partners, EdX currently has 2,300+ faculty and staff teaching over 950 courses. Courses are free with the exception of...
  19. Coursera

    MOOC Platform Coursera

    Coursera is the largest MOOC platform partnering with top universities and organizations to offer online courses for anyone to take. With the most diverse course selection of all the MOOC providers, Coursera currently has over 17 million students and 2,000+ courses from 146 partner institutions...
  20. Carolyn

    Discussion Reflections on Learning with MOOCs

    Share your thoughts, tips and experiences of learning with MOOCs and online courses.
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