Online education – a snapshot
by catherinecronin
Open online education is changing rapidly. The first few weeks of 2012 has seen the launch of Udacity, Stanford’s Coursera and the first course offering by MIT’s MITx. In trying to put these developments into context, I’ve drafted a table illustrating key aspects of this evolution in online education, focusing particularly on open online courseware (as opposed to more discrete OERs). This is not meant as an exhaustive catalogue, but simply as a concise summary of recent developments, enabling comparisons. [Table updated 5th March 2012.]
Full table click here: Online education – a snapshot
(Summary table below the break.)
Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 sundaune
Related blog post: Distributed Creativity: open education and challenges for higher education
Summary table:
| Institution & programme | No. courses available | Launched | License | University credits |
| MIT – Open Courseware (OCW) | 2,100 | 2002 | CC-BY-NC-SA | No |
| Yale – Open Yale Courses | 35 | 2007 | CC-BY-NC-SA | No |
| NYU – NYU Open Education | 6 | 2011 | CC-BY-NC-SA | No |
| MIT – OCW Scholar | 8 | 2011 | CC-BY-NC-SA | No |
| MIT – MITx | 1 | 2012 | CC-BY-NC-SA | Yes (MITx credit, not MIT credit) |
| Stanford – Stanford on iTunes U | 13 | 2004 | CC-BY-NC-SA | No |
| Stanford Online Courses(no longer available) | 3 | 2011 | Copyright – access limited to registered users only | Certificate (no credit) |
| Coursera (still affiliated with Stanford) | 16 | 2012 | CC-BY-NC-SA | Certificate (no credit) |
| Udacity (independent of Stanford) | 2 | 2012 | CC-BY-NC-SA | Certificate (no credit) |
| MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses | 12 | 2007 | CC-BY-NC-SA | Yes/No (depends on the MOOC) |
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it is a nice compilation. Kudos! http://www.edubeans.blogspot.in
My thanks to Fred Garnett for some great discussion on Twitter this morning, in response to this updated blog post.
@fredgarnett: Hi Catherine, all big institutions listed there. No #wikiquals Does Open Ed mean access to big universities? Seems so…
@catherinecronin: Just a piece of the picture, yes! Table = summary of open courseware, part of an awareness process here: und’g & valuing “open”
@fredgarnett: We say from Access to Content to Context. Always been unimpressed by OCW as not designed for appropriation but for branding
@catherinecronin: Understand your point. But it’s a version of Open that is understood by HEIs – can start thinking, discussion, movement/change…This is how I started a conversation here: http://ow.ly/9tC5v [Distributed Creativity blog post]. Am now adding building blocks: what’s there, & what’s possible
@fredgarnett: Love the blog post on distributed creativity; http://t.co/oyCrjavl #openeducationwk
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