Tuesday, July 16, 2013

MOOC's are Life Enhancing!


MOOC's (Massive Open Online Courses) are incredible. As Wikipedia explains it:
"A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education."
Some of the best Universities in the world are putting courses onto MOOC's. I'm now positively addicted to doing MOOC's. My favorite MOOC Portal is Coursera. It has hundreds and hundreds of amazing courses, from incredible Universities and facilitated by some of the top Researchers and Professors in their respective fields. I've now done courses from places like Duke University, with lectures and lessons delivered by people such as Prof. Dan Arieley. I absolutely love it! It's so life enhancing. I get to sit in the comfort of my own home, and tune into and turn onto learnings that I could never have a few years ago. And they are all open and free. What's even better is that you get a Certificate (providing you complete the course and meet the required standards for the course) that you can use with your resume. How cool is that!

So if you haven't already discovered MOOC's, then now is the time! Jump on over to Coursera, and take a look at the feast of courses provided. Sign up for some. Then enjoy involving yourself in the learning tribe for that course. Take your knowledge to new levels.

As I've pointed out in earlier blog posts, learning is important and life enhancing. If you'd like to know the distinctions I made on this, take a look at:
Continue to enhance your life by involving yourself in ongoing learning. By learning you stimulate neural-plasticity, you grow new neurons and new connections in your brains. You make yourself more intelligent and bring greater knowledge and wisdom to your world. And that is truly life enhancing and generative!

life and learning enhancing wishes
Grant
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6 comments:

  1. alsterJuly 16, 2013 at 10:47 AM

    Grant,
    Thank you for that information. That is fantastic. I didn't know about coursera.org and now I am going to do courses.

    Thanks again,
    Allison

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    1. Grant SoosaluJuly 16, 2013 at 11:12 AM

      Heya Alster, you are very welcome and I'm glad I've made a life enhancing difference for you with this blog post. I truly love MOOC's, I'm doing a couple right now, as is my beloved. We find they are so convenient and add so much newness and stimulation to our life. We get to share and discuss them together. It makes a positive difference to our brains and our world.

      smiles and hugs
      Grant

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  2. AnonymousJuly 16, 2013 at 3:52 PM

    Great thoughts Grant. I checked out Coursera and it looks great. Some really interesting courses. Thanks, Phil

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    1. Grant SoosaluJuly 16, 2013 at 4:22 PM

      Hey Phil, thanks, yes it is great and some of the courses are fantastic. So much to learn! :-)

      hugs, Grant

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  3. Jean | DelightfulRepast.comJuly 19, 2013 at 7:53 AM

    Grant, I learn something every time I visit your blog! I've never heard of these classes and now I'm looking forward to checking them out!

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    1. Grant SoosaluJuly 19, 2013 at 8:06 AM

      Thanks Jean for your kind words, I'm really chuffed to be able to make a positive difference to my reader's worlds, even if its only in a small way. Thanks again so much for making the time to comment.

      smiles, Grant

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