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2. List of MOOC providers - Wikipedia

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   Free and paid courses English Commercial 2013 EU Kadenze: Arts, Photography Free English Commercial 2015 US Khan Academy: General education Early Childhood Education to university level Khan Academy Non-profit 2006 US Linkedin Learning: Business, Technology Free trial, then subscription English Commercial 1995 US MIT OCW

3. Distance education - Wikipedia

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   SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses): Online course that only offers a limited number of places and therefore requires some form of formal enrollment; SMOCs (Synchronous Massive Online Courses): Open-access online course that allows for unlimited participation but requires students to be "present" at the same time (synchronously);

4. OpenCourseWare - Wikipedia

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   This program accepts applications for university lecturers that wish to put their courses online, and gives grants of between $10,000 – 15,000 CAD per course that is put online, and made available free of charge to the general public (ibid.). The most prestigious award is for the "national level CQOCW", then there is "provincial level" and ...

5. Massive open online course - Wikipedia

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   "The most important thing that helps students succeed in an online course is interpersonal interaction and support", says Shanna Smith Jaggars, assistant director of Columbia University's Community College Research Center. Her research compared online-only and face-to-face learning in studies of community-college students and faculty in ...

6. Free education - Wikipedia

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   Online education has become an option in recent years, particularly with the development of free MOOCs (massive open online courses) from providers such as Khan Academy (High School) and Higher Education, through providers such as edX, Coursera, Udacity, FutureLearn and Alison. Free education has become available through several websites with ...

7. Online university - Wikipedia

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   A virtual university (or online university) provides higher education programs through electronic media, typically the Internet. Some are bricks-and-mortar institutions that provide online learning as part of their extended university courses while others solely offer online courses. They are regarded as a form of distance education. The goal ...