Free online
courses put Harvard, MIT in everyone’s reach
Wish you had gone to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or Harvard?
Well, it’s never too late to start, and you might not need to worry about the
cost of the course either.
For the past many years, well-known universities have been offering
free, or partlyfree courses online. These Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
are usually short, self-paced capsules covering some topics in a subject, or
even subjects you do not normally associate with the university, such as jazz
piano. Boston’s Berklee College of Music, for instance, is launching a free
4-week course on “Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions” from Monday.
Although The New York Times had called 2012 “The year of the MOOC”, the
number of courses is still growing rapidly. Dhawal Shah, founder of the online
course search engine and review site Class Central, writes in his Medium blog:
“In the past seven years or so, over 800 universities have created around
10,000 of these MOOCs... In the past four months alone, 190 universities have
announced 600 such free online courses.”
Sifting through Shah’s list of 600 courses, Mental Floss found off-beat
ones, like “Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather,” from Harvard
University, and “Mind of the Universe—Robots in Society: Blessing or Curse?”
from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
MOOCs can help you brush up your professional knowledge, or introduce a
subject outside your specialisation.
Source | Times of India | 21st
October 2018
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