MOOC Providers - USA:
If you would like to pursue higher education but cannot attend full-time university or college courses, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) could be the ideal solution for you! Taught entirely online, MOOCs are a recent development in distance education. Designed for open access and unlimited participation via the internet, MOOC providers offer real college and university courses from real schools to students around the world. Many are provided free of charge.
North American MOOC Providers
- Founded in 2012, Coursera partners with Princeton, Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan.
- Udacity provide online tech courses which are built in partnership with technology leaders and are relevant to industry needs.
- edX was founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Harvard University to host online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines from many schools