Earlier this year we began telling you about a potential revolution in education -- the birth of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. As explained above, these courses let students, thousands at a time, take courses from great universities for free online. What's more, most of these courses offer students a credential -- something like a certificate of completion -- if they master the material covered in the class. Some of the MOOC providers are well known: Coursera, Udacity, and edX. Others, like Class2Go, Google Course Builder and Venture Lab, are just emerging. But, together, they're producing courses at breakneck speed, and we thought it was time to start organizing a list for you.
Today, we're rolling out a list of 60 Free Courses Granting Certificates from Great Universities. The list organizes courses chronologically by start date, and it indicates the kind of credential the courses offer -- for example, Certificates of Completion, Statements of Accomplishment, or Certificates of Mastery. The list, which happens to include another 15 courses not bearing certificates, will be regularly updated. You can expect it to grow rapidly, and you can always access it by clicking Certificate Courses in the top navigation of our web site. Below we have listed a number of online courses starting this week:
Technology of heat transfer in refinery. Our Certificate courses include an abundance of subjects, such as: languages, media studies, journalism and public relations, health and fitness, business studies, computer programming and networking, and much more! Use the search bar on the left if you are looking for a specific category, or browse through all Certificate courses below.
Get the full list here. It includes 75 Massive Open Courses in total.