MOOCS Galore!

Yes, the greatest craze at the moment in as far as revolutionising education is concerned is to do with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). It is such a life saver for many who have to continuously upgrade themselves to be able to carry  out their work well.
In my role as Professional Development Activities coordinator in my department, I frequently circulate MOOCs that are on offer and I am estimating that there are releasing at least one MOOC per month.
Here are some that I stumbled upon so far, at least since May...

• First Steps into Learning and Teaching - offered by Oxford Brookes University under its HEA/JISC funded OpenLine Project and the offer period ended in June but you are still able to access the course.
• Power Searching with Google - offered by Google (duh!) and the course ended on July 17th.
• Current/Future State of Higher Education - which is due to be offered in October and supported by a group of universities and relevant HE stakeholders.
• Curriculum Design with OERs - to be offered by Open University, UK from 10th Jan-13th March, 2013
• Entrepreneurship in Education [Ed Startup 101] - offered by well respected industry global  experts and is due to start on 27th August, ending on December 14th.
• BlendKit Course 2012 - This is a offering by University Centr.al Florida (UCF) and is due to be offered from September 24, 2012  to October 29, 2012
• IPR for Educational Environments - Not particularly sure if this is a facilitated course but everything is up and ready on the site and can also be repurposed to suit one's own context.
• MOOC MOOC - A MOOC about MOOCs offered by Hybrid Pedagogy which commenced on 12th August and ending on the 18th. 
• A Gentle Introduction to Python by Mechanical MOOC which will commence on October 15th. 
• Coursera offerings of 119 courses and counting....

• University of Edinburgh's MOOC offerings via Coursera which are due to start in 2013. 
• EdX offerings which is a collaboration between MIT, Harvard and UC, Berkeley to be released this fall. 
• Openness in Education by Drs. Rory McGreal and George Siemens which is a 12 week course starting September 10th, 2012.
• Open content licensing for Educators by OER Foundation to be conducted from  3-14 December, 2012. 
• Open2Study by Open Universities Australia
•  UNEOpen by University of New England, Australia

There might be others that I am not aware of so, if you do notice one that is not on the list above, please do share this.

And Happy MOOCKING to you!!