Mooc

Massive : 100 000+ students

Open : free knowledge for everyone

Online

Course:

Community College credits Instructor Assessment Start/end date

History Distance learning :students who are not physically

present at a school. 1728 : Caleb Philipps teach by weekly mailed session 1840s: Isaac Pitman -> 1858 first University: University of London 1969 Open University (UK) Open Colleges

Radio TV Internet

History (cont)

History (cont)

1999 Jones International University 2000 -> 2008 distance education courses

increased rapidly 2008 : first introduced MOOC concept 2012 : years of MOOCs : top universities emerged,

including Coursera, Udacity, and edX Now: many MOOCs

Founded in 2012 by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University.

Penn hosts the Inaugural Coursera Partners' Conference on April 5 and 6, 2013

October 2014, Coursera had reached 839 courses and 10 million users.

May, 2015, Coursera had more than 1000 courses from 119 institutions and 13 million users from 190 countries.

Partners

2012: Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania

Twelve in 2012 Feb 2013: 29 partner universities Feb 2014: 133, across 26 countries, offering

1,467 courses

Specialization certificates Series of courses Topics

Data Science from John Hopkin University Modern Musician from Berklee Digital Marketing from University of Illinois Business Foundations from University of Pennsylvania Fundamentals of Computing from Rice University Entrepreneurship: Launching an Innovative Business from University of

Maryland

Ccertificates, link to linkedin

Udacity: "audacious for you, the student" Founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike

Sokolsky 2011: free computer science classes 2013: Thrun announced that the service was pivoting to focus

more on vocational courses for professionals and "nanodegrees"

April 2014, Udacity has 1.6 million users in 12 full courses and 26 free courseware.

Category Data Science Web Development Software Engineering Android iOS Georgia Tech Masters in CS Non-Tech

Nonprofit organization Open-source software : Open EDX More than 5 million (September 2015)

May 2012 by scientists from Harvard and MIT. Gerry Sussman, Anant Agarwal, Chris Terman, and Piotr Mitro

2013 they partnered with Stanford and in June 2013 they reached 1 million students.

September 2014 edX announced a high school initiative October 2014 edX announced Professional Education courses March 2015 it partnered with Microsoft April 2015, edX partnered with Arizona State University to launch

the Global Freshman Academy