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Northwestern expands MOOCs program with new courses

October 31, 2014

Northwestern is developing new, free massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the digital Coursera platform, after terminating its for-credit, tuition-charging Semester Online program this past spring. The...

Medill prof evaluates first month of teaching MOOC in Guardian op-ed

October 20, 2013

Medill Prof. Owen Youngman, one of several Northwestern professors teaching a massive open online course this quarter, addressed questions about the program in an op-ed published Thursday in the Guardian. Youngman's...

McLaughlin: As year begins, embrace Semester Online, MOOCs

McLaughlin: As year begins, embrace Semester Online, MOOCs

September 19, 2013

Last August, a Medill professor welcomed students to the first day of a course called Integrated Marketing Communications. The syllabus was distributed and questions answered. But, for the first time,...

Northwestern partners with Coursera to continue online education development

February 22, 2013

Northwestern announced Wednesday that it has partnered with Coursera, a digital platform for massive open online courses. The University’s foray into the growing field of MOOCs, along with 28 other...

Kamel: Online college education cant supplant the campus experience

Kamel: Online college education can’t supplant the campus experience

February 5, 2013

In the media lately, there has been a push in favor of online college courses and universities. These new forms of education are seen as the answers to the rising cost of higher education and the intense...

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