19/06/2013

TCD Join MOOC Network Of Free Online Study

Trinity College Dublin have joined a number of other top universities from around the world, offering free online courses of study.

Trinity have joined the increasing network of Massive Online Learning Courses (MOOC), to offering a number of course for free, accessible to any one online.

TCD have partnered with Futurelearn.com, established in the UK but the Open University, joining Queen's University Belfast and others from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol and King's College London.

(MH/CD)

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