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This new initiative was based on MIT's "MITx" project, announced in 2011, and extends the concepts of OCW by offering more structured formal courses to online students, including in some cases the possibility of earning academic credit or certificates based on supervised examinations. A major new feature of the edX platform is the ability for ...
In 2010, Google donated $2 million for creating new courses and translating content into other languages, as part of their Project 10 100 program. [16] In 2013, Carlos Slim from the Luis Alcazar Foundation in Mexico, made a donation for creating Spanish versions of videos. [ 17 ]
ALISON is an Irish online education platform for higher education that provides certificate courses and accredited diploma courses. [5] [6] It was founded on 21 April 2007 in Galway, Ireland, by Irish social entrepreneur Mike Feerick. [7] As of July 2022, Alison has 4,000 courses, 25 million learners worldwide, and 4.5 million graduates. [2] [3]
[26] edX offers a variety of ways to take courses, including verified courses where students have the option to audit the course (no cost) or to work toward an edX Verified Certificate (fees vary by course). edX also offers XSeries Certificates for completion of a bundled set of two to seven verified courses in a single subject (cost varies ...
A free course can be "upgraded" to the paid version of a course, which includes instructor's feedback and grades for the submitted assignments, and (if the student gets a passing grade) a certificate of completion. [57] [60] Other Coursera courses, projects, specializations, etc. cannot be audited—they are only available in paid versions ...
The Institute of Translation & Interpreting aims to promote the highest standards in the translation and interpreting professions. It achieves this through the publication of a bimonthly bulletin (the ITI Bulletin), blog posts and pamphlets, the organisation of regular conferences and courses linked to Continuing Professional Development, rigorous criteria for full membership including ...
A 34-year-old mother in England learned that she had breast cancer shortly before giving birth to her first child. Laura Hudson from Manchester received a diagnosis of stage 2, grade 3 breast ...
Translation studies has developed alongside the growth in translation schools and courses at the university level. In 1995, a study of 60 countries revealed there were 250 bodies at university level offering courses in translation or interpreting. [51] In 2013, the same database listed 501 translator-training institutions. [52]