EP52 - AskDeveloper Podcast - MOOCs

AskDeveloper Podcast

- Quick history ? Distance learning ? Open educational resource movement ? MOOC coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier ? Khan Academy, P2PU, and Udemy ? Udemy has tools for pros to create courses and publish (also attracting corporate trainers to create courses for enterprises) ? Udacity growing out of Stanford CS courses by Sebastian Thrun ? Coursera growing out of Stanford's Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller ? MITx launched by MIT in response to commercialization of MOOC, then joined by Harvard and renamed edX - Cost ? Content is free ? edX offers certificate for 100$ for most courses ? Coursera have some quizzes and grading exercises only for paying students ? Udacity has nano-degrees with projects reviewed only for paying students - Interdisciplinary learning ? Importance ? Examples - For credit leaning ? Georgia Tech masters 2013 with Udacity ? edX have MicroMasters which offers for credit courses and earn 25% credit of on campus masters § RIT cybersecurity § University of Pennsylvania Robotics § British Columbia Software Development § Boston University Digital Leadership § MIT Supply Chain Management § University System of Maryland Cloud Computing § Columbia Business Analytics, AI § San Diego Data Science § Michigan UX Research and Design § Others ? Coursera masters with § Illinois MBA, Accounting and CS (Data Science) HEC (innovation and entrepreneurship) ??? ??????? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ?????? ???? ???????? ? ????????? ????? ????? https://www.youtube.com/user/FCIHOCW Our facebook Page http://facebook.com/askdeveloper On Sound Cloud http://soundcloud.com/askdeveloper Please Like & Subscribe