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According to The New York Times, 2012 became "the year of the MOOC" as several well-financed providers, associated with top universities, emerged, including Coursera, Udacity, and edX. [ 4 ] Dennis Yang, President of MOOC provider Udemy , suggested in 2013 that MOOCs were in the midst of a hype cycle , with expectations undergoing a wild swing.
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.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) are course lessons created at universities and published for free via the Internet.OCW projects first appeared in the late 1990s, and after gaining traction in Europe and then the United States have become a worldwide means of delivering educational content.
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]
MIT OpenCourseWare is supported by MIT, corporate underwriting, major gifts, and donations from site visitors. [2] The initiative inspired a number of other institutions to make their course materials available as open educational resources. [3] As of May 2018, over 2,400 courses were available online.
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.
In 2012 iversity decided to become a European-based MOOC platform [20] Spring 2013 – iversity and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft launched “The MOOC Production Fellowship” as a competition for online course concepts. A jury chose 10 of the best MOOC concepts out of more than 250 entries.