Aftermarket Education

Go/Do/Learn STORY BY JEFFERSON MOK THE EDUCATION ISSUE ILLUSTRATION BY BEUTLER INK The clusters represent the number of AFTERMARKET EDUCATION courses available through early 2014 at NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON nine of the largest MOOC providers. Every course appears as a dot. The clusters for 19 iTunes U and Udemy-where educators create their own classes-include only their most popular courses. OPEN2STUDY Introduction to Public Speaking Astronomy: Discovering the Universe Twitter Essentials in As the selection of open online courses grows, learning doesn't end with a degree Under an Hour SCI-FI NOVELIST he first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the Web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,300 people signed up. MOOCS quickly took off. In 2011, a Stanford University class on artificial intelligence enrolled 160,000, inspiring one of the instructors to found the 25 UDACITY 1.00- Fantasy and Creative Publish Science Fiction: Writing: A Master Class Your Book MOOC start-up Udacity. on Kindle 389 The Human Mind, Our Modern World The courses aren't quite substitutes for traditional edu- cation; at Coursera, one of the largest MOOC providers, 80 percent of students already hold a bachelor's degree, and only 10 percent finish the courses they start, according to co-founder Andrew Ng. But MO0CS can help students build the skills to become almost anything-or anybody. COURSERA UDEMY NATE SILVER ALIEN HUNTER SURVIVALIST Model Thinking Campaigns and Elections Introduction to Statistics: Making Diversity of Exoplanets Astrobiology Create a Yoda Decisions Translator in Javascript and the 74 Based on Data Search for Extraterrestrial Life Solar Energy Food, Nutrition, and Your Health Preparedness Disaster ITUNES U 298 DRONE-ARMY COMMANDER 303 CODECADEMY 207 010101010 EDX INDIANA JONES 010101010 01010 Flight Vehicle Aerodynamics Machine What's the Best Video Camera for You? Learning SAYLOR KHAN ACADEMY Forces and Newton's Laws of Architecture: Global History Ancient Civilizations Business and Economics Education Humanities Mathematics Social Sciences of Motion Part 1 of the World Computer Science Health and Medicine Lifestyle Science and Engineering 52 / POPULAR SCIENCE / SEPTEMBER 2013 SOURCES: CODECADEMY, COURSERA, EDX, ITUNES U, KHAN ACADEMY, OPEN2STUDY, SAYLOR, UDACITY, AND UDEMY. SEPTEMBER 2013 / POPULAR SCIENCE / 53