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Last week, MoocLab passed another exciting milestone in our mission to support students with their learning. Over 20 thousand people have now joined the site, just three months since we celebrated 10 thousand people joining MoocLab. In a world where remote learning is booming, our mission is to guide learners through their online learning options while providing a virtual space for focused peer-to-peer study and support. MoocLab offers a number of resources to help our users succeed in...

MoocLab submitted a new resource: Online Tools for the Online Learner - Online tools to help students be successful online Read more about this resource...

2U, a publicly-traded online program manager, announced last week the acquisition of Harvard and MIT-founded edX, the non-profit online course provider, for $800 million cash. The transaction, which is expected to close this fall, includes substantially all of edX's assets, including the edX brand, website, and marketplace. 2U says it intends to operate edX as a public benefit corporation. In other words, edX will become a for-profit subsidiary of the NASDAQ listed edtech giant. From its...

EdTechX Challenge — Online Student Competition ($25,000+ in prizes available) MoocLab is pleased to support the EdTechX Global Innovation Challenge for Students - a virtual student competition to source the best ideas that can transform the future of learning and work worldwide. The EdTechX Challenge is a global competition that invites students to identify key problems in education & learning and submit proposals to help address them. Submissions can span across a broad range— from...

Coursera is a popular online education platform that partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals worldwide. The courses are taught by top instructors from prestigious universities such as Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan, or UPenn, as well as renowned companies like Google Cloud, Goldman Sachs, or AWS, for example. The majority of courses can be accessed for free...

All edX MicroMasters® programs can now be applied towards the Master of Science in Professional Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with the newly launched universal online credit pathway. This pathway is designed to "break down barriers to graduate learning" and give MicroMasters program learners the option to earn an accelerated, customized graduate degree online. MicroMasters programs are a series of graduate level courses from top universities designed to advance your...