100 most popular online courses of 2019 revealed by Class Central
By combining course enrollments data and Class Central data, the company came up with a list of 100 most popular free online courses of 2019.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- It's been eight years since a few Stanford professors decided to offer their courses online for free. These courses are now known popularly as MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. Since then over 900 universities have launched 13,500 online courses. These courses have been taken by 110 million learners worldwide!
Each year Class Central analyses the online learning habits of the site's users, along with the data from thousands of courses to establish trends and publish course rankings.
Methodology
To build the list, Class Central comed through it's database of MOOCs and made a list of all the courses that were offered for the first time ever in 2019. 450 universities around the world have launched more than 2,500 courses in 2019.
The company then wrote scrapers to collect enrollment numbers for three different providers: Coursera, edX, and Swayam. Each of these providers show how many students are enrolled on their course pages. These providers alone registered around 5 million enrollments for courses launched in 2019!
Along with the this, the company also had data from it's users: how many times a course has been bookmarked on Class Central. Using the enrollment data and bookmarks data Class Central came up with a list of 100 most popular courses of 2019 from 68 universities.
You can find the entire list here: https://www.classcentral.com/report/ and more details on how we came up with the list can be found here: https://www.classcentral.com/report/100-most-popular-online-courses-2019/
About Class Central
Class Central is a search engine and reviews site for MOOCS, and has helped 20+ million learners decide which online course to take. The site publishes in-depth industry news and analysis about the online education space on the MOOCReport publication read by 80k people every month.
On Google Scholar, Class Central has more than 1000+ citations. Dhawal Shah, the founder has written articles for Techcrunch, VentureBeat, Quartz, Fast Company, and is a columnist for EdSurge.
SOURCE Class Central, Inc
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