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FutureLearn, the UK-based MOOC provider, recently announced a new pricing plan - Unlimited - offering unlimited access to most of its short courses for an introductory one-off payment of £149 for one year. This offer will be available until 11 May 2019, after which Unlimited will cost £209. The Unlimited plan allows you to complete any number of short courses which offer a Certificate of Achievement. The courses can be completed in your own time within a year and include a printable digital...

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...

OpenClassrooms is a European online education platform based in Paris, France currently offering 5 MOOC-based online Bachelor’s Degree Paths in Front-End and Full-Stack Web Development, Android, iOS and Ruby development and Product Management. OpenClassrooms is registered with the Board of Education in France and grants its own Bachelor’s Degrees at level 6 on the EQF (European Qualifications Framework). The degrees are recognised by all participating countries of the Bologna Process...

Coursera announced yesterday the introduction of a new capability which will allow their partners to create standalone or course-integrated hands-on projects using almost any third-party software application. This will mean that learners will be able to work on projects and assignments directly in a browser using tools like Jupyter Notebook, RStudio, VS Code, and cloud software consoles without any environment setup or software downloads. The unveiling of Coursera Labs coincided with the...

This year's IEEE Learning With MOOCS Conference was held in October 2019 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and welcomed some prestigious Keynote speakers from academia and industry to discuss learning analytics, key stakeholders, micro-credentials, machine learning and more. Here are some of the topics that caught my interest: Speaking about ways to evaluate the quality of MOOCs, Kerrie Douglas, Assistant Professor at Purdue University said that leveraging MOOCs to make education...