MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses, Universities, Free and Paid Programmes

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is the latest version of distance education across the world. The learner friendly system of delivering education through videos, assignments, study material has gained momentum with MOOC project of various universities and governments.

SWAYAM - MOOCs
MOOC offer skill oriented courses in various disciplines including engineering, management, humanities, social sciences, etc. A certification from a reputed university / institute will add value to the CV and career.

There are thousands of courses across the web by famous universities and commercial and non-profit organisations. Most of the materials are free to access to the learners. You can participate without any registration fee but need to pay some amount to get a certification. Government of India has launched SWAYAM project as part of MOOC.

See Details: SWAYAM – Free Online Courses in India

Following are some of the famous MOOCs available on the web / internet:

1) Stanford Online of Stanford University
2) SWAYAM of Government of India
3) Coursera: Participated by Stanford, Princeton, Arizona state university, University of Maryland College Park, University of Illinois etc.

4) Khan Academy
5) Canvas Network: Santa Clara Univeraity, University of Utah etc.
6) Peer to Peer University
7) Udacity – Georgia Institute of Technology, San Jose State University, Google, Salesforce.com, Facebook, Cloudera, Nvidia, Autodesk, Cadence.

8) Eliademy – Aalto University Executive Education
9) Open HPI: University of Potsdam, Germany
10) Future Learn: University of Edinburgh, Kings College London, Open University, Trinity College of London etc.
11) Open Classrooms: Google, Microsoft, IBM, Zendesk, Ecole Polytechnique, Centrale Supelec

12) Open Learning: University of New South Wales, Taylors University, University of Canberra
13) edX: MIT, Harvard University, Boston University, IIT Bombay, IIM Bangalore, etc.
14) iversity: University of Hamburg, University of Florence etc.
15) One Month: School of Vidual Arts, USA
16) NovoEd: Stanford University, Wharton, Princeton, Darden, Comcast, etc.

17) Coursmos: Stanford University, MIT, Draper University
18) Open 2 Study: James Cook University, Griffith University, RMIT University, Central Institute of Technology, Sydney Institute etc.
19) Kadenze: Stanford University, UCLA, California Institute of Arts, Maryland Institute, National University of Singapore etc.
20) POLHN: WHO, Pacific Ministries of Health
21: ALISON, Lynda.com, Shaw Academy, Udemy

IGNOU Online Admissions for July 2017 Session

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has issued admission notification for the July 2017 cycle. IGNOU is offering distance education academic programmes at Masters, Bachelors, PG Diploma and Diploma level. Following are details of programmes:

Masters Degree: MA Philosophy / Gandhi and Peace Studies / Anthropology / Gender and Development Studies / Social Work / Distance Education / Rural Development / Hindi / English / Economics / Political Science / Sociology / Women and Gender Studies, Tourism and Travel Management, M.Com, MCA, MLiSc, M.Sc, MA Translation Studies.

Bachelor Courses: B.Sc, BA, BA Tourism Studies, B.Com, BCA, BLi.Sc, BSW (bachelor of social work).

PG Diploma / Diploma: Analytical Chemistry, Criminal Justice, Gandhi and Peace Studies, Information Security, Educational Technology, Translation, Rural Development, Plantation Management, Book Publishing, Applied Statistics etc.

Online admission form can be filled at onlineadmission.ignou.ac.in/admission . Last date for the submission of applications is 30th June for certificate programmes and all other programmes is 31 July 2017. For more information, see ignou.ac.in .

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