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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...

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, consortium terminate online course-for-credit program

April 3, 2014

One year after Northwestern rolled out its first foray into online courses for credit, the University and its partner schools terminated the Semester Online pilot program, provost Dan Linzer announced...

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 extends registration deadline for Semester Online

August 8, 2013

The deadline to register for Northwestern's first online courses for credit has been extended three weeks, the University announced Tuesday. Jake Julia, NU associate provost for academic initiatives,...

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