{"id":3988,"date":"2015-05-04T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2015-05-03T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:40:10","slug":"apps-from-2-big-mooc-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/apps-from-2-big-mooc-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps from 2 big MOOC providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been waiting for this &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/mobile?utm_source=edX+Course+Announcements+Mailing+List&amp;utm_campaign=6b5343abd5-Student_Newsletter_May_3_Mobile&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_237694b56d-6b5343abd5-41254965\">edX mobile<\/a> is finally here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been taking courses from the two big names in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/\">edX<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/\">Coursera<\/a>, and making good use of Coursera&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/coursera\/id736535961\">iOS app<\/a> on my iPhone (also available for <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=org.coursera.android\">Android<\/a>). What I like about having the apps is that I can download course videos and view them anytime, even offline.<\/p>\n<p>I can now get on with the course I&#8217;ve signed up for\u00a0from MITx:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/design-development-games-learning-mitx-11-127x\">Design and Development of Games for Learning<\/a>. The furthest I&#8217;ve got is through their pre-course tutorial videos on\u00a0Gameblox. I designed <a href=\"https:\/\/gameblox.org\/play\/6188\/\">my first game<\/a> (don&#8217;t judge!).<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eye on offerings from\u00a0McGill on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/school\/mcgillx\">McGillx<\/a>. You can now follow courses on your mobile (yay).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been waiting for this &#8211;\u00a0edX mobile is finally here. I&#8217;ve been taking courses from the two big names in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), edX and Coursera, and making good use of Coursera&#8217;s iOS app on my iPhone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/apps-from-2-big-mooc-providers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152,56],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apps","tag-moocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3993,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}