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MOOCs in 2013: Breaking Down the Numbers

MOOCs in 2013: Breaking Down the Numbers

Teasing out trends among the unabated growth of online courses

https://www.edsurge.com/n/2013-12-22-moocs-in-2013-breaking-down-the-numbers

The figures below are based on these data.

200+ universities. 1200+ courses. 1300+ instructors. 10 million students.

“Trends in 2014

As we turn the corner to 2014, there will surely be continued growth in course offerings and new or emerging MOOC providers. But other trends seem likely to take off as well:

  • Credit-granting MOOCs: Universities are starting to grant credit for MOOCs, the most ambitious being Georgia Tech’s Online Masters in Computer Science, but others are currently planning ways to offer college credit.
  • Corporate-developed public MOOCs: Separate from the trend of companies using MOOCs for internal training, more companies will start to offer free MOOCs to provide training for current or potential customers, following examples set by MongoDB University and OpenSAP. Additionally, Udacity has offered courses taught by experts from Autodesk, Google, Nvidia, and recently announced a Data Science and Big Data track, which will jointly offer MOOCs along with industry partners.
  • Broader access to MOOC creation: On the major provider platforms, the opportunity to teach MOOCs has been somewhat of an invite-only proposition to established universities and professors. But new platforms promise to make this more easily available, such as the much-anticipatedMOOC.org (a partnership between open EdX and Google to create a MOOC authorship platform), and the current offering from OpenLearning.”

Stephen

 

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Posted on: December 31, 2013, 6:22 am Category: Uncategorized

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