Mooc

2. Massive : 100 000+ students

3. Open : free knowledge for everyone

4. Online

5. Course:
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Community
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College credits
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Instructor
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Assessment
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Start/end date

6. 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

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History (cont)

8. History (cont)
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1999 Jones International University
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2000 -> 2008 distance education courses
increased rapidly
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2008 : first introduced MOOC concept
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2012 : years of MOOCs : top universities
emerged, including Coursera, Udacity, and edX
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Now: many MOOCs

9. 
Founded in 2012 by computer science
professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from
Stanford University.
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Penn hosts the Inaugural Coursera Partners'
Conference on April 5 and 6, 2013
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October 2014, Coursera had reached 839
courses and 10 million users.
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May, 2015, Coursera had more than 1000
courses from 119 institutions and 13 million

10. Partners
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2012: Stanford University, Princeton
University, the University of Michigan, and the
University of Pennsylvania
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Twelve in 2012
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Feb 2013: 29 partner universities
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Feb 2014: 133, across 26 countries, offering
1,467 courses

11. Specialization certificates
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Series of courses
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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

12. 
Udacity: "audacious for you, the student"
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Founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens,
and Mike Sokolsky
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2011: free computer science classes
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2013: Thrun announced that the service was
pivoting to focus more on vocational courses for
professionals and "nanodegrees"
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April 2014, Udacity has 1.6 million users in 12
full courses and 26 free courseware.

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

14. 
Nonprofit organization
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Open-source software : Open EDX
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More than 5 million (September 2015)

15. 
May 2012 by scientists from Harvard and MIT.
Gerry Sussman, Anant Agarwal, Chris Terman,
and Piotr Mitro
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2013 they partnered with Stanford and in June
2013 they reached 1 million students.
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September 2014 edX announced a high school
initiative
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October 2014 edX announced Professional
Education courses