Directory of Potential Strategic MOOC Partners for HBCUs and Virtual HBCUs

Last updated: Saturday 12/7/13 @ 11:22 am

HBCUs and strategic alliances of HBCUs ("virtual HBCUs") can engage online service providers as strategic partners to help them launch massive open online courses, a/k/a MOOCs. A list of some of the nation's most prominent providers of support services for MOOCs that have been engaged by HBCUs and non-HBCUs as strategic partners appears in Table 1 (below). 

• The rationale for engaging strategic partners is discussed in another note on this blog ==> Strategic Partnerships and Strategic Alliances
   
• Virtual HBCUs are discussed here ==> Virtual HBCUs as Strategic Alliances
   
• As noted in column (3), only a few partners host MOOCs on open source platforms
  

Table 1. Prominent Providers of MOOC Support Services

Online Service Provider (1)	Parent (2)	Open Source Platform (3)	Comments (4)	HBCU Partners (5)	Some Other Partners (5)
Semester Online	2U		Semester Online = alliance of universities that offer courses for each other's students and for outsiders … coortinated by for-profit 2U a/k/a 2tor		Boston College, Brandeis, Emory,  Northwestern,  Chapel Hill, Notre Dame, Wake Forest. and Washington U in St. Louis
Class2Go	Stanford University	free, open source announcement	Stanford, UC Berkeley, and U of Queensland are contributing to development of edX open source platform
Coursera	For-profit provider		Coursera partners with over 95 colleges & universities		Brown, UC Irvine, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego, Case Western, Columbia, Rice, Rutgers, Duke, Stanford, Penn State, UVa, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbuilt, Yale, CalTech, Georgia Tech
Coursesites	Blackboard	MOOC platform available to Blackboard clients at no extra cost			Kent State, Florida International, Stevenson, UMass Boston, Colorado State, Temple, Pace, Syracuse
edX		free, open source announcement	the edX Consortium has 30 members … Stanford, UC Berkeley, and U of Queensland are contributing to development of edX open source platform		Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, Wellesley, Boston U, Cornell
MOOC.org	Google	free, open source	Google will help develop the edX open platform and make it available via the MOOC.org site ... a YouTube for MOOCs???
Canvas	Instructure		Like Blackboard, Canvas LMS enables instructors to launch MOOC courses
Khan Academy			Non-profit provider. "Godfather" of most MOOCsj … supported by Gates & other foundations … modules useful for college remedial courses
NovoEd	for-profit provider		NovoEd develops MOOC using lecture videos from Stanford professors + extensive student social interaction and collaboration
OpenMOOC		Open source platform	OpenMOOC enables invidual instructors to launch MOOC courses
Udacity	For-profit provider		Udacity partners with colleges & Universities and with corporate training operations	Morgan State University	San Jose State University, Georgia Tech ... also some tech skills & workforce companies (AutoDesk, Wolfram, MIcrosoft, NVIDIA, Google, Cadence)
Udemy	For-profit provider		Udemy enables invidual instructors to launch MOOC courses