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OPEN EDUCATION DB Written by: Thomas Broderick Universities, colleges, and private organizations offer free online college courses to help students acquire new knowledge and skills. These courses cover a variety of traditional academic topics and other subjects that can lead to career advancement and personal enrichment. Courses occur online, allowing learners from all over the world to participate. At the end of a course, students may qualify for an official certificate. Featured Online Programs Most online courses provide an introduction to a topic, although there are some intermediary and advanced courses. Some free college courses use the term massive online open course (MOOC). Benefits of Open Courses Free online college courses allow students to learn from home, a significant advantage for learners who prefer to eliminate a commute. In a free college course, learners can explore new academic topics without incurring high tuition costs. Open courses can also expose students to new hobbies.

Practical Action | technology challenging poverty | Practical Action Latin America In Peru and Bolivia, we help communities set up small-scale technological solutions in remote areas where there is no access to basic services, including electricity, heating, clean water and sanitation. Western Africa Building on our recent extension of consultancy work into west Africa, Practical Action has recently set up an office to deliver impact at scale in Francophone west Africa. Eastern Africa Our offices in Kenya and Sudan work with communities to develop practical solutions in energy, agriculture and urban water and waste, reducing the impact of conflict and disasters. Southern Africa Our Southern Africa office works primarily in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique, with an emphasis on improving access to clean drinking water and better sanitation in urban slums, increasing the productivity of smallholders in arid regions, and increasing energy access in rural and urban areas. South Asia UK office

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University of the People – The world’s first tuition-free online university Business Model Generation Carpe Diem MOOC | Swinburne University Carpe Diem MOOC Enrol now in Swinburne's free Open Online Course Carpe Diem is a proven collaborative and rapid course development method for effective learning design. Whether it be adapting an existing course for online delivery or ensuring your course is designed for future learning, Carpe Diem is an essential method for anyone interested in improving learning and teaching. "Carpe Diem is based on 13 years of research into collaborative design for technology enhanced learning ...I am delighted that this MOOC brings Carpe Diem agile, rapid team developments for effective learning design to the broader education community" Professor Gilly Salmon Participants in the course can expect to: Join the growing number of practitioners applying Carpe Diem and transforming the learning and teaching experience. Requirements To participate effectively in this course, students should be proficient in English, have reliable access to the internet and use the FIREFOX web browser to access Coursesites.

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