4. Canvas.net
With 4.5 million users, Canvas Network offers open, online courses taught by educators everywhere. Powered by the Canvas learning management system, Canvas Network provides a place and platform where teachers, students, and institutions worldwide can connect and chart their own course for personal growth, professional development, and academic inquiry.
A not-for-credit platform, Canvas Network offers dozens of courses to help enhance your skills whether its taking a math refresher with college tips or an introduction to cybersecurity.
Canvas Network is developed and supported by Instructure, an education technology company that partners with educators, institutions, and technologists to build open educational resources and break down barriers to learning.
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5. Iversity
Unlike Coursera, the Germany-based MOOC Iversity collaborates with professors and they create their own courses. Also contrary to their American counterparts, Iversity does not focus on elite universities, but rather the specific skills and abilities of each educator.
This free platform has video lectures and interactive quizzes, and participants can receive a Certificate of Accomplishment upon successful completion. Iversity is expanding MOOCs into the European system of higher education, and participants can also receive ECTS credit in several subjects.
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