65 Massive Open Online Courses Launch in January

Very cool.

65 MOOCs/Certificate Courses Getting Started in January 

January 7th, 2013

January — it’s a time for New Year’s resolutions and for university courses to get started again. It’s happening on campuses. And it’s happening online. Right now, the biggest batch of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are getting underway: 65 courses in total, across seven different online platforms. Below, we’ve highlighted a sampling of courses, but you can scan through the complete list of January courses right here, and keep tabs on all future MOOCs here. Please keep in mind that many MOOCs offer “Certificates” or “Statements of Accomplishment.” The key on this page indicates the kind of credential offered by each course. It goes without saying that these courses are free. The video above introduces the course The Modern World: Global History Since 1760.

• ThinkTank – Ideal City of the 21st Century – Leuphana Digital School – January 9 (15 weeks)
• Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization - Knight Center at UT-Austin - January 12 (6 weeks)
• The Modern World: Global History Since 1760 – University of Virginia on Coursera- January 14 (15 weeks)
• Introduction to Databases – Stanford on Class2Go – January 15 (9 weeks)
• Improving Your Spanish Pronunciation – University of Utah on Canvas – January 21 (6 weeks)
• Introduction to Philosophy – University of Edinburgh on Coursera – January 28 (7 weeks)
• Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World – U Michigan on Coursera – January 28 (10 weeks)
• Emancipation Proclamation – University of Illinois-Springfield on Course Sites – January 28 (8 weeks)
• Introduction to Statistics – UC Berkeley on edX – January 30 (TBD weeks)
• HTML5 Game Development – Udacity – February 4

There are some good courses starting in February, as well.

February 2013

• Introduction to Sociology (NC) – Princeton on Coursera – February (7 weeks)
• Analytic Combinatorics, Part I (NC) – Princeton on Coursera - February (5 weeks)
• Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations (NI) – Vanderbilt on Coursera - February (8 weeks)
• The Modern and the Postmodern (CC) - Wesleyan on Coursera - February 4 (13 weeks)
• Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation (NI) - Berkeley on edX – February (TBD weeks)
• Natural Language Processing (SA) - Columbia on Coursera - February 11 (10 weeks)
• Clinical Problem Solving (CC) – UCSF on Coursera – February 11 (6 weeks)
• Women and the Civil Rights Movement (NI) – U Maryland on Coursera - February 25 (12 weeks)
• Introductory Human Physiology (CC) – Duke on Coursera - February 25 (12 weeks)