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Code Year was a free incentive Codecademy program intended to help people follow through on a New Year's Resolution to learn how to program, by introducing a new course for every week in 2012. [32] Over 450,000 people took courses in 2012, [33] [34] and Codecademy continued the program into 2013. Even though the course is still available, the ...
This program accepts applications for university lecturers that wish to put their courses online, and gives grants of between $10,000 – 15,000 CAD per course that is put online, and made available free of charge to the general public (ibid.). The most prestigious award is for the "national level CQOCW", then there is "provincial level" and ...
Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) offer noncredit courses with no assignments or grades to adults over age 50. Since 2001, philanthropist Bernard Osher has made grants from the Bernard Osher Foundation to launch OLLI programs at 120 universities and colleges throughout the United States.
Content for eight community-college level courses was provided online for free, in what was termed an "open content initiative." The term "open educational resources" was first adopted at UNESCO's 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries. [33]
Coursera Inc. (/ k ər ˈ s ɛ r ə /) is an American global massive open online course provider. It was founded in 2012 [2] [3] by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. [4] Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects.
Mashable was founded by Pete Cashmore while living in Aberdeen, Scotland, in July 2004. [7] Early iterations of the site were a simple WordPress blog, with Cashmore as sole author. [ 8 ] Fame came relatively quickly, with Time magazine noting Mashable as one of the 25 best blogs of 2009.
For example, in edX's first MOOC—a circuits and electronics course—students built virtual circuits in an online lab. [25] edX offers certificates of successful completion and some courses are credit-eligible. Whether or not a college or university offers credit for an online course is within the sole discretion of the school.
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to publish all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, freely and openly available to anyone, anywhere.