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Back in April 2020, online learning platform FutureLearn partnered with the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) to launch a pilot campaign known as ‘Study with Australia'. The initiative aimed to provide free online access to a wide range of courses from leading Australian education institutions and designed to expand skillsets and further careers. Today the campaign has achieved over 836,000 enrolments from more than 460,000 learners across a collection of 52 free online...
How to study MOOCs for free A guide to gaining free access to MOOC courses When MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) first came on the scene 5 years ago, they caused a lot of noise around the fact that they provided free Higher Education for the masses - a pretty revolutionary concept given the usual exorbitant cost of university level learning. Anyone could take one of these online courses and get access to the same course content that paying students were getting on a university campus...
8 Tips for note taking on online courses and MOOCs A question that often arises about online courses is whether you need to take notes or not. The simple answer is yes! Whether you are studying a traditional classroom based course or studying online, the benefits of taking notes are the same. The results of a study into memory and recall by Ebbinghaus showed that people forget 42% of what they’ve learnt after 20 minutes and after six days you lose up to 77% of newly learnt skills and...
Some MOOC platforms offer specialization courses which are a series of related courses designed to help you deepen your expertise in a subject. For a fee, you can earn a verified certificate on completion of all the courses, or you can study each course independently for free if you do not wish to pay for a certificate. In some cases, financial aid is available for students with demonstrated economic need. Currently, there are four main MOOC Providers that offer specialization courses...
What are the best ways to learn? And more importantly, what are the best ways to remember what you learn? Effective learning is about remembering the information you learn, recalling it when you need to, and using that information effectively to successfully achieve a particular task or goal. So how do you become a better learner? The following tips will help you get more out of your study time. Keep learning sessions short & frequent Short frequent learning sessions are more effective...
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