Africa: French Universities Go Online With Moocs

By Sarah Elzas. France's higher education system is going online with an extra eight million euros being invested in Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs).
France's Minister for Higher Education, Geneviève Fioraso announced the new funding on Tuesday in addition to 12 million euros already planned to develop these online courses.
The first eight French Moocs start Thursday, via the French platform called France Université Numérique (Fun).
Some 88,000 people had already signed up for the 25 courses that are due to start this year. More...