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Coursera now passing student details to employers (with the students permission - opt in). Allows people to seek work through the courses they have done.

free online courses on a range of topics supported by Udemy

Moodle MOOC site - four week free courses on how to use Moodle, 3-4 hours per week

Some thoughts on how Coursera might make money - and some insights into how they currently organise e.g. more than $1m per staff member in venture capital available.

" links to free on-line services that allow you to provide your students with enhanced learning opportunities which you can then embed into, or link from, your school/college/university's website, course blog or VLE/MLE."

Examples of scripting. "The aim of Desktop Liberation  and its related blog is to encourage you to take advantage of web capabilities without being constrained by your desktop software. You'll see a few techniques, tips and tricks for sure, as well as fully functional sample applications in various languages and frameworks, with a particular emphasis on Google Technology.   All code is of course unprotected and free to re-use. For more details see Reusing code from this site. Examples are downloadable here and throughout the site."

"I think we ought to take Chris Anderson seriously and start giving the course away."

Become a @Google internet power searcher in six 50-minute free online classes starting July 10. Register now http://t.co/828Ydszx #yam

A good opportunity to see Google+, Hangouts, groups etc. used in an open course, plus you get a certificate :-)

Wikipedia entry about Moocs.