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David Jay Malan (/ m eɪ l ɛ n /) is an American computer scientist and professor. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, and is best known for teaching the course CS50, [2] [3] which is the largest open-learning course at Harvard University and Yale University and the largest massive open online course at EdX, with lectures being viewed by over a million ...
Academic Earth is a website launched on March 24, 2009, by Richard Ludlow and co-founders Chris Bruner and Liam Pisano, [1] [2] which offers free online video courses and academic lectures from the world's top universities such as UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. [3]
Digital life and technology, Education and training, Health, Environment and sustainable development, Physics and Chemistry, IT and programming, Political science and international relations, Law, Economy and management, Life Sciences Free access to courses, free and paid certification [1] French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese Non-profit 2013
Jefferson D. Pooley, a Muhlenberg University professor and Harvard graduate said “The whole sale itself was a betrayal and a fundamentally misguided choice by Harvard and MIT to betray, in my view, the trust that faculty and students put into it when they signed onto the platform.” [21]
For smaller companies, Udemy offers a Udemy Team Plan that is a limited seat license but identical content to that of Udemy Business. Courses on Udemy can be paid or free, depending on the instructor. [32] In 2015, the top 10 instructors made more than $17 million in total revenue. [33]
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. [9] Thrun has stated he hopes half a million students will enroll, after an enrollment of 160,000 students in the predecessor course at Stanford, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, [10] and 90,000 students had enrolled in the initial two classes as of March 2012.
Open edX was designed for the MITx project, which was renamed to the edX project and made into a separate 501(c)3 after Harvard joined. This remains the largest global installation as of 2022, with over 3000 courses and 500,000 regular users.
In 2011, Georgetown University's School of Nursing and Health partnered with 2U to offer a degree program. The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina started offering an online MBA through 2U the same year. [11] In March 2011, the company raised a $32.5 million Series C, bringing its total funding to $65 million. [13]