Take Online Courses From World's Best Universities For Free

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What is edX?

EdX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider and online learning platform. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide audience at no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. EdX differs from other MOOC platforms, such Coursera and Udacity, in that it is nonprofit and runs on an open-source software platform.

EdX was founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in May 2012. There are currently 56 schools, nonprofits, corporations, and international organizations that offer or plan to offer courses on the edX website. As of 22 July 2014, edX has more than 2.5 million users taking over 240 courses online.

EdX courses consist of weekly learning sequences. Each learning sequence is composed of short (an average of 10 minutes each) videos interspersed with interactive learning exercises where students can immediately practice the concepts from the videos. The courses often include tutorial videos that are similar to small on-campus discussion groups, an online textbook, and an online discussion forum where students can post and review questions and comments to each other and teaching assistants. Where applicable, online laboratories are incorporated into the course. For example, in edX's first MOOC—a circuits and electronics course—students built virtual circuits in an online lab.



EdX offers certificates of successful completion, but does not offer course credit. Whether or not a college or university offers credit for an online course is within the sole discretion of the school. EdX offers a variety of ways to take courses, including verified courses where students have the option to audit the course (no cost) or to work toward an edX verified certificate (fees vary by course), honor code courses where students can either audit (no cost) or work toward an honor code certificate (no cost). In addition, in the fall of 2013, edX launched a pilot project to offer a special certificate in a subject area (called "XSeries Certificate") after completing a bundled set of 3-4 verified courses in that subject (cost varies depending on the courses).
Culled from Wikipedia

Advantages

Apart from the numerous advantages cited above, from my own perspective I see this as a very wonderful setup, it's free, consist of lot of courses across all the fields of life.
The course content is given at the beginning of the week, you have videos and handout to support what you are being taught, you can even download the resources and that can be added to your personal library.
And then there are quizzes and tests at a particular time and you have the exam.

It will be an added advantage to you as you have more educational qualifications to yourself and it also shows you make use of your free time wisely.

It's free, you can access the website anytime you like within the week, they are being partnered by top world-class universities like Harvard University, MIT.

This and lot more. Try it out and you won't regret it.

Website

https://www.edx.org/


“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss,
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― Voltaire
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― Isaac Asimov


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