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And sometimes you take a course to prepare yourself for future education. Colleges and universities find that many students could benefit from taking a few extra courses to help close the readiness gap between high school and college. To address this need, edX has launched a high school initiative--an initial collection of 26 new online courses, including Advanced Placement* (AP*) courses and high school level courses in a wide variety of subject areas. A generous grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, along with grants from the Wertheimer Fund and Fariborz Maseeh / The Massiah Foundation, will help fund edX’s high school initiative. 15 Free Learning Tools You've Probably Never Heard Of.
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Now they have released the remaining 39 under the same terms, which means that anyone, anywhere, including the state’s 34 public community and technical colleges and four-year colleges and universities, can use, customize, and distribute the course materials. The Open Course Library project is funded by the Washington State Legislature and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It adheres to SBCTC’s open policy, which requires that all materials created through system grants be openly licensed for the public to freely use, adapt, and distribute under CC BY.
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The deal represents one of the first instances of a third-party institution buying permission to incorporate a MOOC into its curriculum -- and awarding credit for the MOOC -- in an effort to lower the full cost of a degree for students. It is also a first step for Coursera and its partners toward developing a revenue stream from licensing its courses. “It’s a very different kind of arrangement than our university partnerships,” says Daphne Koller, a Coursera co-founder, who along with her co-founder Andrew Ng has signed deals to host MOOCs from 33 universities on Coursera’s platform. Any revenue from the Antioch deal is hypothetical at the moment. The pilot is scheduled to last two quarters. The Saylor Foundation. Sociology 101: Introduction to Sociology Course - Free Online Video Lessons. Propero.
12 Ways to Educate Yourself Without College. Guest post by Blake Boles.
Cross posted at The Huffington Post Criticizing is easy, of course. Offering solutions is hard. The reality is that college fills many valuable roles today. It offers young adults the chance to build hard skills (e.g. writing) and soft skills (e.g. teamwork), be part of an exciting community, live independently, get exposed to new ideas, and signal employers with an (increasingly devalued, but still valuable) college degree. But in an era of skyrocketing tuition fees combined with widespread economic austerity, millions of students will find themselves unable or unwilling to finance the college package deal. Luckily, higher education doesn't have to be delivered by a college institution. Self-directed learning is one solution to the college debate, and certainly not the only one.
Here are 12 ways to begin pursuing your own self-directed higher education, right now, without college: Kickstart something. National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) Home - Floating University. College@Home. Research Schools, Online Courses, Degrees and Careers at Education Portal. EdX - Home. Coursera. UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version).
See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers.
Here is another video Nick created for this class. Free Online Courses - Earn Real College Credit You Can Transfer.