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A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021

Edsurge

In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Ten years ago, more than 300,000 learners were taking the three free Stanford courses that kicked off the modern MOOC movement. I was one of those learners and launched Class Central as a side-project to keep track of these MOOCs.

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

Edsurge

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. It offers fewer courses than Coursera—in 2020, edX listed 3,090 courses and Coursera about 4,600.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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OPINION: When it comes to liberal-arts education, online learning changes only the tools

The Hechinger Report

Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that? For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

Edsurge

One thing I’ve been looking at is Google Trends and trying to see if there is any early evidence that people are searching for new sorts of things, like micro-credentials and online degrees. I think we’re alright, in most states, being forced to work at home if you hadn’t embraced it already.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.”

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