By Rebecca Ryan, StateNews.com
With college tuition rates skyrocketing in recent years, students looking for a free alternative to gain some extra knowledge might be in luck. Massively open online courses, or MOOCs, which have been gaining popularity nationally and worldwide, are online courses taught by professors at universities such as Indiana University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia and George Washington University. Most of the courses are free, or have a small fee to take the final exam, and have been targeted at students and those seeking professional development from an educator’s position. Inside Higher Ed reported at least 1.5 million people have registered for MOOCs so far, using online course offering sites such as Coursera, Udacity, Blackboard and edX.
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