Accessibility Course Libraries MOOC 
Edsurge
OCTOBER 15, 2020
When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite colleges out to the world. So Coursera sees a new business opportunity: to sell the courses it developed to colleges that want to use them as part of for-credit courses for their own students.
Edsurge
MARCH 25, 2020
Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options. Duke University was one of the first institutions to draw on MOOCs in response to the novel coronavirus. Other MOOC providers are making similar offers.
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Edsurge
JULY 17, 2020
Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. Dubbed “ Coursera for Campus ,” this offering includes about 4,000 courses created by 150 colleges and universities. (A But its time on the throne proved to be short-lived.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. Now it is selling all the course content developed for those free courses to colleges that want to use the materials in their own campus programs. At least a few colleges had already purchased those licensing plans.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A majority of online students visit campus to access services and support, or to attend events and in-person courses, in a true blending of online and in-person. At Northeastern University, many of our 17,000 online and hybrid students access our campus network with locations in Boston, Charlotte, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Toronto.
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2018
An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.
Edsurge
AUGUST 16, 2018
But it also emerged from what he calls a “dark time” at his university, when budget cuts seemed certain to reduce the number of professors in his department, thus restricting the courses it could offer. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. We’ve had a lot of budget issues,” he says. “It
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