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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


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...

Northwestern to offer free online course for alumni

May 20, 2014

Northwestern is offering a free massive open online course this summer exclusively for NU alumni and friends. The course, Content Strategy for Professionals: Engaging Audiences for Your Organization,...

After discontinuing Semester Online, Northwestern alters online education goals

April 15, 2014

After its first experiment in for-credit online courses for undergraduates failed, Northwestern is now shifting its focus to developing Web courses for its graduate programs and building up its Massive...

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...

Northwestern partnering with 10 schools for online course consortium

November 15, 2012

Northwestern is joining nine other top schools to launch an online course program for undergraduate students next fall, the University announced this morning. The new initiative, called Semester Online,...

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