Elite universities at the click of a mouse

Coursera is currently the most advanced platform for the latest studying trend, MOOCs - or Massive Open Online Courses. It was created to unite the world’s most prestigious schools on the same platform.

This content was published on February 7, 2013 - 11:00

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Lausanne’s Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) is the only institution in continental Europe to be involved for now (Edinburgh is also participating). Last year around 53,000 students registered for the EPFL course on the Scala programming language and 10,000 completed it. By the end of the year, the EPFL wants to be able to offer at least ten courses. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)

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Swiss universities try to catch the MOOC wave

This content was published on Feb 7, 2013 But not everyone is convinced: some sceptics say MOOCs are not particularly innovative and just a new marketing opportunity. Last year witnessed an e-learning explosion as MOOC madness took over higher education. Eager not to miss out on this new trend, top universities from around the world are joining platform providers such as Coursera and…

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