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Today's post is especially dedicated to parents and teachers who read me.

Today there are going to find things to do with your kids, no tricks to improve their behavior. Today you are going to find useful information for you, because being a parent is very difficult, just leaves you time for you and much less to continue your training or learning areas that interest you.

As I imagine you'll have little time to equipment moves, Today I "I take" home courses.

Shall we start the class? 😉

Surely at some point you will have heard the acronym MOOC, but, You know they mean? This is the acronym for Massive Online Open Courses (massive and open online courses). These courses are the result of massive education on internet. Education free and open to anyone.

So we can talk about MOOC, The course must have the following characteristics:

• Being a course. Obviously, You must have a learning structure, which often leads to a series of tests or assessments to prove the knowledge acquired.
• Have massive character. The number of possible enrollment is usually unlimited, or in an amount far higher than could be counted in a classroom course. The scope is global.
• Online. The course is a distance, It requires no classroom attendance, why Internet is the main media.
• Open. The materials are available for free on Internet.

Massive courses They were born in 2008, when George Siemens and Stephen Downes created which, It is said that, It was the first Mooca: “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08)". From there, and with the collaboration of Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander, this group has been offering many open courses.

Later, and because of the success they experienced such courses They began to emerge private initiatives, with the collaboration of universities, subject matter experts and teachers, They have become big hits.

Today we will see much of platforms offering these courses. I will not get to analyze in detail because from my point of view what makes a MOOC is really good teachers who are importing and knowledge that they have of matter, college are to be.

That's why I encourage you to take a look at each of the platforms that you facilitated and when you simply interested in a course you inscribe, it costs nothing and if finally not nobody will tell you anything you carry out ... 😛

MOOC in Spain

We are not pioneers in this area, But we are Spanish I decided to mention to online courses platforms with which we in Spain first, although they are logically available worldwide.

I personally am not too familiar with any of them. Soil generally take courses in English as well take the opportunity to practice the language while learning something different. But, If you do not want complicaros, You can use these platforms on which courses are usually in Castilian.

1. CRYPT4YOU

He was born in March 2012, becoming the first initiative of a MOOC in Spanish. He directed by Dr. Jorge ramie and Alfonso Muñoz. It is a cryptography course for programmers and is backed by the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

2. Miriada X

This platform is driven by Telefónica, Universia and Santander, and it consists of more than 1.200 universities 23 countries among which are the Polytechnic University of Madrid, University of Alcalá, UNED and the University of Salamanca and many others.

MOOC outside our borders

• U.S

3. COURSERA

Surely this platform will ring you and possibly you've ever used.

Coursera He was born in October 2011 developed by scholars from Stanford University. It is of course online platforms more global impact.

Coursera will find courses in many universities and almost any subject. I use a lot for education courses or improving skills like writing in English. For me, 100×100 recommendable.

4. NOVOED

Most courses are of the Stanford University but also you find courses from other universities and companies specializing in certain sectors.

Much of their courses are free but you can also find courses ranging from 29 to the 1.000 dollars.

5. UDACITY

Udacity is a somewhat different platform we're seeing the rest, mainly because their courses are not linked to universities. Son executives and engineers from major companies like Google or Facebook that are taught.

This platform was created as part of an "experiment" out of Stanford University, in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered the course “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence”, totally free of charge. Some 160,000 more students 190 countries were enrolled in the course ... A success! This is how this platform was born.

6. STANFORD ONLINE

As its name suggests, the courses that you will find on this site are from the Stanford University.

If you go to any of the courses you will see that actually Courses are conducted from platforms like Coursera or Novoed, that is to say, Most of the courses that you will find on this site will also be available on other platforms online courses. Even so, This is a good way to choose a particular university courses, in this case Stanford.

7. EDX

EDX is another major platforms online courses, It offers courses in some of the best universities in the world, among which stand WITH, Harvard, Berkeley y UT. The topics ranging from biology, business, computer science and engineering, to nutrition and literature through many more.

EDX is a non-profit initiative created between Harvard and MIT.

8. COURSESITES

CourseSites is a platform created by Blackboard, one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development of online learning products (e-learning).

On this platform you will find courses at universities around the world, from Spanish universities like the University of Navarra, to American or Irish universities.

9. CANVAS

Canvas born in 2011 one of the branches instructure, company offering related to e-learning resources from 2008.

On this platform, plus many universities courses, You find courses nonprofit organizations and renowned companies.

• Australia

10. OPEN2STUDY

Open2Study is backed by Open Universities Australia (EGGS), a leader in online education. On this platform you will find courses mostly Australian universities.

• Germany

11. OPENSAP

OPENSAP is a platform born from the collaboration between SAP, German multinational company dedicated to designing computer products business management, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany.

Most courses are in English, but also you find some in Chinese.

12. OPENHPI

As you will see, this platform and we have seen before, besides having in common their place of origin, They have in common that have been formed by the same company. For OpenHPI, It is only the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) which he has put this initiative.

On this website you will find courses in English, German and Chinese.

• Malaysia

13. OPEN LEARNING

Although the idea of ​​this platform was forged at the University of New South Wales (Australia), the Malaysian Ministry of Education has announced that OpenLearning.com is the official online platform courses for all higher education institutions in the country. In any case, do not worry because most of the courses are in English.

• Turkey

14. UNIVERSITY MORE

I do not think that you may be very interested in taking a course in Turkish ... but it is worth knowing that the Turks have also developed platforms for conducting online courses and this is one of them.

Among the many courses offered, you can find one in English, but the truth is that most will need to speak Turkish to understand something ...

• United Kingdom

15. FUTURE LEARN

Much of the universities that you will find on this platform are the UK, Most though the Old English also find some Scottish.

The best of these courses from my point of view, you will practice your English with an accent absolutely "british".

• Guatemala

16. TELESCOPE

Telescope is the platform of online courses at the University of Galileo in Guatemala. It's a much more modest platform when compared with that seen above, but it has some interesting courses and, above all, in Spanish, If you do not want the language complicaros.

 

As you can see you have no excuses to keep formándoos. Are increasingly platforms offering online courses and, above all, quality courses. These tools put within reach of our material hand, not for new technologies, we could not know.

Seize the opportunity offered by the Internet to, not only learn new things, but above all, being in contact with other cultures, countries and ways of seeing education.

As usual, thanks for your time.

Happy week!

Cristina

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. "

Frank Zappa

 

 

 

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