Low Cost

In order to proceed, please activate your web browsers cookie. Under the new EU Privacy Act, we are required to notify you of the following before you use our website: We use cookie and other technology to help us personalize your experiences, analyze and personalize our Web site, application, newsletter and Web site advertisements according to your interests.

If you click on "I Agree" below, you are agreeing that we and our third parties' affiliates may use cookie and information that originates from your use of our platform. Read our privacy policy and the third parties' affiliates to find out more about the use of information and your legal responsibilities.

The EdX family brings nine low-cost grades onto the internet

German language course publisher EdX took a big leap into the classroom this weekend by launching nine low-cost, large-scale, fully on-line Master's programmes from selected institutes. One of the first to deliver massively open on-line course or MOOC, the non-profit organization will provide graduates from seven universities: Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University, University of California, San Diego, Arizona State University and two Australia colleges - University of Queensland and Curtin University.

Postgraduate courses in popular subjects such as cyber security, information technology and analysis will cost between US$ 9,000 and US$ 22,000 and give college graduates a significant rebate on equal campus-based courses. The Georgia Tech's M. S. E. in analytical sciences is $9,900. Eq. on your campsite is $36,000 for local and $49,000 for out-of-country student.

It launches two more at $10,000 or less - a master's in cyber security from Georgia Tech and a master's in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. With so many new postgraduate programmes being announced, it is clear that, like the other Coursera on-line education platforms, " [edX] is all-inclusive to the ability to manage programmes online," said Ryan Craig, CEO of University Ventures.

Currently, Coursera provides 11 on-line masters courses from selected universities, among them a hugely popular University of Illinois MBA, which cost approximately $22,000. Craig said, "The relatively affordable nature of these grades reflects what it actually cost to offer an on-line grade programme. he said, "The edgeX announcements will put significant downward pressures on prices on those agencies that, along with their operational excellence centres, are continuing to offer on-line grades at the same levels as campsite programmes.

MOC vendors such as Coursera and edX are appealing partnerships for colleges that want to develop on-line programmes because they already have a large number of students - usually working adult people. The cooperation with a supplier like us opens new ways in the right direction, says Gallagher. WedX provides access data named MikroMasters that can be fully batched.

Previously, these could only be used for the personal area. They can now be apllied to on-line grades. Some of the new on-line masters courses do not have a MicroMasters feature, but most do, said Anant Agarwal, edX chief executive officer. MicroMasters components have the added benefit of allowing students to choose whether they want a full Master's after trying out a more cost-effective and time-consuming programme.

When a student chooses not to proceed with the Master's, he still has the MicroMasters certification - "a precious independent qualification recognised by sector leaders," says Agarwal. Agarwal says, "edX master's qualifications are the next move towards edX's stacking completion and reference visions. Those nine grades are "just the beginning" of something that will hopefully be a greater listing of master's courses in sought-after fields, he said.

Agarwal said: "However, the amount of investing hands -on experience and cash needed to acquire this expertise through a conventional master's program on university campuses is not accessible to many. "Our on-line master's courses are offered to do justice to these two realities. What is more, we are able to offer our students a wide range of courses. "The approval procedure for the on-line grades will be the same as for the on-campus grades, said Agarwal.

However, "some requirement may be dropped for candidates who have successfully completed a Microsoft MicroMaster programme and demonstrate that they can manage the work. From now on, anyone who receives a particular mark in a MicroMaster programme could be included fully automatic in a Masters programme.