Education of the future: 5 super-projects available today

"Digital revolution", which led to the emergence of Microsoft, Apple, Google and Facebook, finally got to education.

Leading universities in the world transfer the training online, making it free and accessible to millions of people around the world. This phenomenon was called MOOC (from the English "Massiveopenon-linecourses" = "mass open online courses") and he is still very young. The first truly massive educational course was launched only in 2011 by Stanford - at the same time 160,000 people studied the topic of "Artificial Intelligence". Of course, it's on-line.

We present to your attention the Five of the brightest projects of the new education, which attracted multimillion investment and are already available to grateful users.

1) Coursera is one of the most successful MOOC-platforms, which offers more than 420 educational courses from leading universities and brings together more than 5 million students from all over the world.
Founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Keller, the project was able to attract more than $ 65 million. financing.

The authors of on-line courses were professors of the world's leading universities, incl. Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Columbia University. The standard course includes video lectures with subtitles, text notes of lectures, homework, tests and final exams. For the successful completion of the course, the certificate of the corresponding famous university is issued.

2) Lynda.com is an educational company that provides hundreds of on-line trainings for the development of computer, design and business skills that enable participants to achieve meaningful personal and professional goals.

Established in 1995 in California, in January 2013 the project received record financing among all educational start-ups - $ 103 million. The secret of success is the provision of a large number of in-demand online trainings not from university professors, but from https://customwriting.com/write-my-essay and dozens of active professionals from various fields of activity.

3) The mission of Lumos Labs is to be the first in understanding and increasing the effectiveness of the human brain, giving each person the opportunity to discover their intellectual abilities.

Programs and website Lumosity is designed to train basic cognitive skills such as memory and attention.

Created in 2007, today Lumosity has more than 45 million users and is one of the fastest growing websites by the number of subscribers.

In 2012, the project was able to attract significant investments - 31.5 million dollars.

4) OpenEnglish is the largest on-line school of learning English, which in 2012 attracted 43 million dollars of investment.

Founded in 2007 in Miami, the company originally specialized in teaching English to Spanish-speaking residents of the United States.

Thanks to the teachers of the school - native speakers, working online in real time - as well as interactive educational content, OpenEnglish allows you to build individual trajectories for each student on the way to fluency in the language.

5) The Minerva Project re-opens university education for the most talented and motivated students from around the world. By combining the best of Liberal Arts & Science with advanced technology, Mine

rva pretends to train future leaders and innovators in all disciplines.

During the training, a group of international students will travel, studying and living in the 7 best cities in the world and interacting with teachers through a special on-line platform.

The project's board of trustees is headed by Larry Summers - former president of Harvard. Including thanks to its reputation, the development team for the first time was able to attract $ 25 million for a project that does not yet exist.