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CourseSites Website. Overview video. CourseSites as a MOOC Platform: Getting Started. Designing An Exemplary Course Mooc. The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education. 1_Coursera For simultaneously scaring and wooing brick-and-mortar universities into the future by helping get their courses online, at no cost to students. By the end of 2012, eight months after the site’s launch, 33 universities were offering 206 courses over Coursera’s platform, all free to the site’s two million users--up from only five universities in the beginning.

Now the startup, whose growth “has really amazed” even cofounder Andrew Ng, is looking more and more like a stand-alone school. Last December, the company launched career services to begin matching students with employers (early recruiters are Facebook and Twitter), and Coursera will soon offer its own online courses for credit. 2_Udacity and 3_EdX For blowing open the online education market with the backing of seasoned entrepreneurs. 4_Rio Salado Community College For creating a customized course-management and student-services system to keep track of at-risk students on its Arizona campus and online. 5_Amplify 6_GameDesk.

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Coursera. Khan Academy. Udacity.