Monday, December 25, 2017

Physics MOOC courses again

There have been some interesting changes over the years. According to a previous post in this blog in November 2014 Coursera had 35 courses matching keyword PHYSICS and EdX had 95. This number has grown since then. Coursera now has 126 and EdX 203. And FutureLearn has 46. Please note that these only match the keyword and not all are truly physics courses.

A quick browse shows EdX to have more academic type courses of interest to high school and university students. However Coursera and FutureLearn also have interesting courses. The latter tends to have shorter, less demanding but unusual courses.

Many introductory courses start in September. For example there is the course "Preparing for the AP Physics 1 Exam" which is intended to "bridge the college readiness gap". Fairly basic physics but good videos etc. There are similar courses for other subjects. This has been available since 2014 at least.

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