Are you familiar with the term MOOC? It’s an acronym for Massive Open Online Course. It’s the new generation of continuing education classes, many offered from leading public and private universities.
There are MOOCs for just about any topic you can think of in science, math, history, politics, fine arts, etc. There are a lot of MOOC providers – Canvas Network, Coursera, edX, FutureLearn, and Udacity, to name a few.
Many courses are FREE, all they cost is your time. Many courses are also appropriate for high school learners. This makes them a great supplement to an eclectic homeschool curriculum.
You can google for MOOCs for your topic of choice, or use a directory like MOOC LIST.
I enrolled in a MOOC offered by Canvas Network titled “TCM Presents Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir.” More on that course later.
I have my upcoming high school junior looking at the Canvas Network course list. He’s thinking of enrolling in “Introduction to Strategic Thinking.” I think that “College Readiness: Reading, Writing and Math” would be an excellent course for him to take this summer.
Become a life-long learner – try a MOOC!
