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MOOCs: JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health has Massive Success
Newswise | StudentAdvisor.com
In the past three months, more than
175,000 students have
enrolled in Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health through Coursera. Coursera is
a new education
venture that offers high-quality university courses online for free.
The
Bloomberg School’s Coursera offerings include eight MOOCs on data
analysis,
nutrition, primary health care, biostatistics and principles of obesity
economics.
MOOCs on Coursera are the latest
development in the
Bloomberg School of Public Health’s 15-year
history of online public health
education. Currently the School offers 113 for-credit
online courses and
publishes teaching materials from 112 courses through the Bloomberg
School’s
OpenCourseWare, making it the world’s largest provider of online public
health
education.
“We are very pleased with the
response to our Coursera
content. Sharing our knowledge and research with the world is an
essential part
of our mission of improving health and saving lives. MOOCs are another
tool to
help the Bloomberg School expand the reach of public health education,"
said Michael J. Klag,
MD, MPH, dean of the Bloomberg School. “The Bloomberg
School has been offering online learning options for more than 15 years
and we
are the largest online public health education provider in the world.”
Coursera was founded in 2011 by
Stanford University
professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Johns Hopkins is one of 33
top-tier
institutions that have signed agreements with Coursera to make some of
their
Web-based courses available to a wider student audience without
charging
tuition. The universities are offering undergraduate and graduate
courses
taught by their professors in the arts, computer sciences, mathematics,
medicine, literature, history and a host of other disciplines. The
courses can
include online lectures, readings, discussion groups, assignments and
exams. To
date, more than 1.6 million students have enrolled in Coursera courses,
according to the company.
The Bloomberg School’s online course
content is accessible
at on their website.