A Comprehensive List of MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) Providers

The recent emergence of Massive Open Online Courses , commonly known as MOOCs, is revolutionizing the online education world and
is having a profound impact on higher education. With the growing adoption of MOOCs, the number of MOOC providers has also increased many folds. Below is a
comprehensive and up-to-date list of MOOC providers; might be helpful to all interested.
Peace and cheers.
List of MOOC Providers
1. EdX
–A Not-for-profit enterprise with MIT
and Harvard universities as founding partners.
2. Coursera
–A social entrepreneurship
company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University.
3. NovoEd
– Rebranded version of Stanford’s
Venture Lab, with a special focus on
students collaboration and real-world course projects.
4. Udacity
– Udacity was an outgrowth of a
Stanford University experiment in which Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered their ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’
course online for free in which over
160,000 students in more than 190
countries enrolled.
5. Futurelearn
- The first UK-led multi-institutional platform, partnering with 17
UK universities, offering MOOC to students around the world. It is a private company owned by the Open University.
6. OpenUpEd
- First Pan-European MOOC
initiative, with support of the European commission. It includes partners from 11
countries.
7. iversity
– A company with a diverse
interdisciplinary team from Berlin presently offering MOOC production fellowship and
collaboration network for academia.
8. Open2Study
– An initiative of Open
Universities Australia which itself is a leading provider online education through collaboration of several Australian universities.
9. Canvas
– An open, online course network
that connects students, teachers &
institutions
10. 10gen Education
- an online learning
platform run by 10gen (the MongoDB company)
11. OpenLearning
12. Class2Go – UWA
13. Class2Go
– Stanford Now in maintenance
mode. Will be merged with edX platform.
14. MRUniversity
– Focusing on economics
courses, founded by two GMU professors
15. Academic Earth
16. P2PU -
Peer to Peer University is a non-
profit online community based learning platform, founded with funding from the
Hewlett Foundation and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
17. Udemy
– An online learning platform that
allows anyone to host their video courses.
18. Caltech’s ‘Learning From Data’ Course
19. OpenHPI
- The educational Internet platform
of the German Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, focusing on courses in Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
20. UoPeople
– University of the People
(UoPeople) is a tution-free, non-profit,online academic institution offering undergraduate programs in Business Administration and Computer Science.
21. Saylor
- a non-profit organization that
provides over 280 free, self-paced courses.
22. World Education University – WEU
23. CourseSites MOOCs
24. Open Learning Initiative – CMU
25. Unimooc
26. iDESWEB
27. WideWorldEd
– First Canadian MOOC provider
28. Eliademy
29. MOOC on
30. Alison
31. Khan Academy
- Finally, it’s included in the
list!
32. Schoo
– Japan’s MOOC provider. Presently,
offering more than 130 courses
33. Veduca – From Brazil
34. Acamica
35. Poynter’s News University
36. @ral
38. Aquent
39. Kennesaw State University’s
MOOC Kennesaw State University will offer “K-12 Blended and Online Learning MOOC “, its first, beginning January 2014
40. Pedagogy First Offers program for onlineteaching certificate
41. Think CERCA Chicago based company helps develop critical thinking and writing skills for a
better K-12 education
42. Modern Lessons Helps teachers to become
tech savvy and more engaged
43. Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe Institute is
offering a series of MOOCs covering the field of complex systems science ranging from
beginner to expert levels, courtesy Complexity Explorer Project.