MOOC: What?..

Hello again, and today I'm talking about MOOC. You may be wondering, what even is this mysterious abbreviation?

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for anyone to enroll. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale.

Millions of people around the world use MOOCs to learn for a variety of reasons, including: career development, changing careers, college preparations, supplemental learning, lifelong learning, corporate e-learning & training, and more.

The MOOC's have changed the way people all around the world learn.

Canvas and edX are the MOOC's where you can find various courses on all the topics you might need, from social sciences to mircobiology. And most of these courses are completely free. You can get the same information as Harvard students get, isn't is mindblowing?


Here are some of the partner universities, and it's not even half of them.

But what if you want to create your own course? Such service as Stepik provides its users with such a possibility. In the catalog you will find lots of courses created by other tutors, both in Russian and in English. So go ahead and explore!

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