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The MOOC Revolution
In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation invested a million dollars in edX, the world’s largest online learning initiative. A not-for-profit platform, edX is billed as “the future of online education: for anyone, anywhere, anytime”. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX boasts a growing number of “massively open online courses” (MOOCs) aimed at bringing virtual versions of world-class higher education to hundreds of thousands of participants.
Higher education is transforming into a global activity: the spreading of this technology is not only unstoppable, but also omnipotent and omnipresent during the entire process. The two main characteristics that differentiate MOOCs from other traditional e-learning training models are that they are «freely available» and are offered on a «massive» scale.
Other providers of free university education are: Udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, they have delivered online instruction to tens of millions of willing autodidacts.
The MOOC Revolution
In 2012, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation invested a million dollars in edX, the world’s largest online learning initiative. A not-for-profit platform, edX is billed as “the future of online education: for anyone, anywhere, anytime”. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX boasts a growing number of “massively open online courses” (MOOCs) aimed at bringing virtual versions of world-class higher education to hundreds of thousands of participants.
Higher education is transforming into a global activity: the spreading of this technology is not only unstoppable, but also omnipotent and omnipresent during the entire process. The two main characteristics that differentiate MOOCs from other traditional e-learning training models are that they are «freely available» and are offered on a «massive» scale.
Other providers of free university education are: Udacity, Coursera, Khan Academy, they have delivered online instruction to tens of millions of willing autodidacts.