Find Open Online Courses

If you are looking for open online courses, please consult one of the sources below. If you are offering a MOOC (that is not from one of the sources listed) please send email to stephen@downes.ca and I will included it in the MOOC Course List.

2013 Connectivist-style MOOCs

• etMOOC - Educational Technology MOOC. we’ll be needing you to share your knowledge, to support and encourage others, and to participate in meaningful conversations.
• OLDS MOOC - Open Learning Design Studio Massive Open Online Course (OLDS MOOC) "Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum" (www.olds.ac.uk), a free and open nine week course led by the Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology
• MOOC MOOC - the Hybrid Pedagogy online journal group is starting a MOOC MOOC to study and evaluate MOOC's within an open online course environment.
• MOOC Maker Course will focus on the process of developing and running an Open Course. Hashtags at Twitter and Google+ are either #howtomooc or #mmc13. In German.
• Hybrid Learning. This is a course provider entirely based in MOOC-Connectivism and social learning approach (see, http://hybrid-learning.es/index/educationalmodel). In 2013 we will launch at least 4 courses (on open innovation, gamification and teaching at schools, open culture, social media...).

MOOC and open Course Providers

Visit individual sites to view course lists.

• Alison "Since our launch in April 2007 50M+ free lessons have been delivered, learners have spent 3M+ hours studying 400+ Free courses in 10+ Course Categories."
• Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning Initiative
• Class Central - Stanford, Coursera, MIT and Harvard led edX (MITx + Harvardx + BerkeleyX), and Udacity
• Coursera list of courses
• Curricki - open curriculua
• Edx courses
• iTunesU - some courses - guide from DIY University (Apple doesn't provide a list of courses, naturally); list of affiliates
• MIT Open CourseWare (course materials only
• MOOC.fr - dédié à des MOOC francophones (premier MOOC, Internet : Tout Y est Pour Apprendre)
• Open Learning courses
• Open Learn - Open University (UK), see menu at left
• P2P University - courses
• SyMynd courses from NYU, University of Washington, McGill University
• Stanford's Free Online Courses
• Udacity courses
• Udemy list of online courses
• University of the People - course catalogue
• WikiEducator content
• Wikiversity - 'schools'
• Open Yale courses

Older Connectivist-style MOOCs

• The MOOC Guide - A list of the first MOOCs to be created, and what they contributed to the form
• Connectivist MOOCs - MOOCs that conform to the original format developed by George Siemens and myself
• International MOOCs - Past and Present - Stephen's big list of MOOCs

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