e-Learning Pundit

Free or low-cost, MOOCs, Name Recognition

+ eCornell offers two low-cost online courses through the Canvas Network.

The free Canvas.net eCornell HR courses include: Reduce Your Organization’s Social Media Risk, Building a Business Case for Allowing Employees to Work Remotely, and Attracting Talent to Your Organization Using Social Media. The free Marketing courses are Projecting Your Brand Through New Media and Use Mapping to Position Your Brand. Students also can receive a letter of completion from Cornell University by completing one of eCornell’s two paid marketing courses on Canvas.net, Data-Driven Marketing: Leveraging Big Data for Your Business ($99) and Customer Segmentation: A Scientific Approach to Marketing ($199).

+ The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin offers a MOOC, “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization”. The course runs from October 6 through November 2.

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New Online Degree and Certificate Programs

Franciscan University of Steubenville (OH): Master of Business Administration.

Emporia State University (KS):  Master of Business Administration.

Butler University (IN):  Certificates in Business Essentials and Leader as a Coach, “entirely online”.

Seton Hall University (NJ):  Undergraduate and Graduate Certificates in Data Visualization and Analysis (DAVA), “completely online”.

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Have an awesome weekend!

MOOCs, Name Recognition

 Via the Coursera Signature Track series, University of Pennsylvania will offer free online, first-year MBA courses.   A certificate of completion is available for successful completion.  Cost = $49.00 per course.

On a related note,  Northwestern University (IL) offers a MOOC through the Coursera Signature series called “Understanding Media by Understanding Google” for $39.00.

It appears MOOCs are evolving into an outstanding low-cost value.

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Blogging

Beginning this week, we plan to implement numerous site improvements.  As a result,  updates will appear only 1-2 times per week.  We hope to have these improvements completed by January, 2014.  Your patience is sincerely appreciated.

New Online Degree and Certificate Programs

Cornell University (NY):  Advanced Marketing Research Certificate via eCornell.

Name Recognition

Congratulations to the UConn Huskies, 2013 NCAA Women’s Division-I Basketball Champions.

Name Recognition

Congratulations to the Louisville Cardinals, 2013 NCAA Men’s Division-I Basketball Champions.

New Online Degree and Certificate Programs

Columbia University (NY):  Master of Arts in Statistics and Master of Science in Actuarial Science.

NCAA men’s and women’s basketball conference play has been underway for three weeks now.

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State Colleges and Universities

University of Texas of the Permian Basin:  Bachelor of Applied Arts and Science (BAAS). “The degree carries a price tag of $5,000.”

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Name Recognition, Private Colleges and Universities

More news about the free online course offered by Cornell University (NY).  We first reported this opportunity on January 15.

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Stay warm and have a nice weekend!

New Online Degree and Certificate Programs

Columbus State University (GA):  Bachelor of Arts in Communications, “exclusively online”.

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Free or low-cost, Name Recognition

Cornell University (NY) offers a free online course titled “Marketing the Hospitality Brand through New Media: Social, Mobile, & Search”.   An official letter of completion from Cornell University is available to those students who finish the course.  Registration information.

We are partially reviving a series covered five years ago —  online degrees and bowl games.   Both games contested over the weekend featured universities having strong regional brand names.

Utah State University also offers an associate degree program via the web.

New Online Degree and Certificate Programs

University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast:  Undergraduate certificate in Casino Management, “fully online”.

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Private Colleges and Universities, Name Recognition

An editorial in the Daily Trojan (University of Southern California student newspaper) calls for establishing online, undergraduate programs at USC.  Could such a model work?