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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...

EMOOCs 2019, the European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, was recently hosted in Naples, Italy. The event, now in its 7th year, is organised by the Federica Weblearning Centre at the University of Naples Federico II, and provides a platform for decision-makers and practitioners to explore innovative and emerging trends in online education delivery, and the strategic policy that supports them. This year, the focus was on the future of online education with debates on how HE Institutions face the...

MoocLab is proud to be sponsoring FutureLearn’s Festival of Learning which takes place between 22 - 26 June. At this week-long virtual conference, they’ll be celebrating the vital role of educators and learners of all ages, exploring how education, healthcare and business will evolve in a post-COVID world, how we can all collaborate to achieve great things in the wake of upheaval, and why learning together is now more important than ever. The festival will be divided into 4 key tracks...

Gain Transferable College Credit with MOOCs MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) don't usually award college credit to graduates. Recently, however, some higher education institutions have partnered with the major MOOC platforms to deliver the first MOOCs with the option to gain credit. Although these programs do have a cost, it is considerably lower than the equivalent campus courses. The courses are online and open to anyone with no application or transcripts required, and will grant...

In a recent interview, Jeff Maggioncalda CEO of Coursera put in the latest plug for Coursera for Business. For those of us trying to read the tea leaves on this, it seems likely that the rumours of a Coursera pivot towards B2B (they’ve gone from 30 to 500 companies over 2017) as opposed to B2C are true. All MOOC platforms have made some sort of pivot to professionals, because they make up the core of their paying customer base but most do this by pushing for in-demand academic subjects such...