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Coursera and Uniandes Announce Software Engineering Master: the First MOOC-Based Degree Taught in Spanish

Coursera and Uniandes Announce Software Engineering Master: the First MOOC-Based Degree Taught in Spanish

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Uniandes Campus (Bogota, Colombia) Coursera is working with the University of Los Andes (Colombia), or Uniandes for short, to develop an online master’s degree in software engineering. Applications are set to open in Summer 2020, and the program is set to start the following year. Uniandes is a top-10 ranked university in Latin America, according…
On Our Way to LWMOOCs in Milwaukee

On Our Way to LWMOOCs in Milwaukee

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Early this year, Class Central published a list of conferences relevant to MOOCs and online learning. Two of the conferences on that list dedicate themselves entirely to MOOCs — EMOOCs and Learning with MOOCs (LWMOOCs). Class Central attended EMOOCs earlier this year in Naples, Italy;  and we’ll be heading to Milwaukee, Wisconsin this October for…
Imperial Announces Machine Learning Online Master’s on Coursera

Imperial Announces Machine Learning Online Master’s on Coursera

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Today, Imperial College London announced it will be launching an online master’s degree in machine learning. The program will be offered on Coursera and will welcome its first learners cohort in fall 2020. Imperial is ranked among the world’s top ten universities by QS and Times Higher Education. The degree will be the second offered…
European MOOC Platforms Plan New Generation of Microcredentials

European MOOC Platforms Plan New Generation of Microcredentials

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Europe’s main MOOC providers have partnered to create new microcredentials that will allow learners to earn academic credit while gaining in-demand skills. The initiative, called Common Microcredentials Framework, is spearheaded by the European MOOC Consortium, which comprises Europe’s largest MOOC providers: FutureLearn, which is based in the UK and has 9 million learners. Miriada X,…
The Emergence of China’s Nationally-Recognized MOOCs

The Emergence of China’s Nationally-Recognized MOOCs

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China MOOC Conference: MOOC team receiving award MOOCs took off in China in 2013 with the launch of XuetangX, China’s first MOOC platform, which was developed by Tsinghua University. Six years later, China offers over 12,500 MOOCs across more than 10 MOOC platforms. In July 2017, China’s Ministry of Education announced an initiative to recognize…
Massive List of MOOC Providers Around The World

Massive List of MOOC Providers Around The World

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Back in October 2011, Stanford professors launched three free online courses, open to the public. One by one, these courses went massive, with enrollments topping 100,000 students each. Soon the media was calling these courses MOOCs, short for massive open online courses. Since then more than 900 universities around the world have launched free online…
200 universities just launched 620+ free online courses. Here’s the full list.

200 universities just launched 620+ free online courses. Here’s the full list.

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Class Central is a search engine, discovery platform, and review site for massive open online courses (MOOCs). We aggregate courses from many providers to help you find the best courses on almost any subject, wherever they exist. Through Class Central, you can find courses; review courses you’ve taken (and read other people’s reviews); follow universities,…
MOOC-Based iMBA to Replace On-Campus MBA

MOOC-Based iMBA to Replace On-Campus MBA

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On Friday, the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign announced that it will be ending its on-campus MBA programs in favor of its MOOC-based iMBA and other similar degree programs. The iMBA, which the University of Illinois delivers in partnership with Coursera, was announced in 2015 and began accepting students in…
Gabriel Dalporto Becomes Udacity’s New CEO

Gabriel Dalporto Becomes Udacity’s New CEO

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Last week, the $1B e-learning startup Udacity announced the appointment of Gabriel Dalporto as its new CEO. The appointment marks the end of a 10-month search initiated following Vishal Makhijani’s departure from the helm of the company in October 2018. The search was overseen by Sebastian Thrun, Udacity co-founder and former CEO, who retook the…
Getting Ready for EMOOCs 2019

Getting Ready for EMOOCs 2019

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We’re on our way to Italy! The big European MOOC conference, EMOOCs, is happening next month in the coastal city of Naples. The conference will tackle some big, future-oriented themes, including how higher education can respond to the demands of the information economy, reskilling and upskilling the workforce, and data and technology in education. Perhaps…
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