By Chris Parr. The University of Manchester has become the third UK university to join the US massive open online course platform Coursera. The agreement will see Manchester offer four courses free online: water supply and sanitation policy in developing countries; global health and humanitarianism; an introduction to population health; and our Earth: its climate, history and processes. Dates have yet to be confirmed. The North-West institution was one of 13 universities to join Coursera today, taking the platform’s total number of partners to 97. Other new members include the Netherlands’ Eindhoven Institute of Technology, Russia’s Saint Petersburg State University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. More...
Elsevier ups edX MOOC support
Elsevier is to expand its support for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by US provider edX.
The STM publisher has previously piloted textbook content in one edX MOOC, a Circuits and Electronics course taught by Anant Agarwal, who is both edX president and an Elsevier author. Now that is to be expanded to up to five courses, each of which will use an Elsevier text chosen from the publisher's catalogue in computing, engineering, maths, science and criminal justice. More...


