Learn Online: MOOCs

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.

Powered by the Canvas learning management system, Canvas Network provides a place and platform where teachers, students, and institutions worldwide can connect and chart their own course for personal growth, professional development, and academic inquiry.

Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.

优达学城 (Udacity) 是来自硅谷的前沿科技教育平台，由无人车之父、GoogleX 实验室缔造者 Sebastian Thrun 联合创立。我们的愿景是实现全球教育民主化，将稀缺、前沿的科技教育，从象牙塔的高校围墙内、从硅谷金字塔尖的实验室中普及全球。自2012年创立以来，我们已成功帮助全球近千万名学员，通过高质量的课程内容、实战项目与个性化教学指导，掌握成长为行业所需的抢手人才。

Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University. Now it is a for-profit educational organization founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses (MOOCs).

NovoEd has tried to differentiate itself from the crowd by designing its platform to facilitate small-group interactions and project-based assignments. So even though hundreds of students may be taking a course, the instructor can break them up into smaller groups of learners and mentors who can interact and provide feedback to one another as the class progresses. The platform also offers collaborative tools so teams of students can work together on projects.

iversity.org is a platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Being based in Europe, iversity is able to take advantage of the European Credit Transfer System. Partnered institutions have the opportunity to offer exams that award ECTS credits.

FutureLearn is a digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company is wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) learning platform, and as of May 2018 included 143 UK and international partners, including non-university partners.

Class Central is a search engine and reviews site for free online courses

An academic discussion on the Strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs

MOOC List is an aggregator (directory) of Free Online Courses and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by different providers.
MOOC List is a website where you can find Free Online Courses and MOOCs offered by the best universities around the world.

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