Dive Brief:
- In 2014, the number of massive open online courses offered rose to 2,400 and universities offering MOOCs rose to more than 400, or double that of 2013, EdSurge reported.
- Coursera offers the most MOOCs, twice as many as the No. 2 provider, edX, which has nearly 400 courses. But Coursera’s market share shrunk to one-third in 2014 from nearly half in 2013.
- The top three MOOC subjects were the same in 2014 as in 2013: humanities, computer science and programming, and business and management.
Dive Insight:
Measured by student numbers, the top five MOOC providers are Coursera with 10.5 million registered students, edX with 3 million, Udacity with 1.5 million, the Spanish-speaking MiriadaX at 1 million, and UK-based FutureLearn with 800,000 students. Measured by course distribution, the top MOOC providers in 2014 were Coursera, edX, Canvas Network, MiriadaX, FutureLearn, Udacity, CourseSites, iversity, Open2Study, and NovoEd. While 80% of the MOOCs were taught in English in 2014, they were also taught in 12 other languages. Schools offering MOOCs included 22 of the U.S News & World Report’s top 25 universities.