MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare compared with Coursera, edX and Udemy
MIT OpenCourseWare	Coursera	edX	Udemy
Source of the content: Materials come from MIT courses, and the site says it covers the entire MIT curriculum with more than 2,500 courses.	Source of the content: Courses are MOOCs from partner universities worldwide, with pre-recorded lectures, forums, assignments and quizzes or exams.	Source of the content: edX was founded by MIT and Harvard and works with university and industry partners. It offers courses, professional certificates, executive education, MicroBachelors, MicroMasters and degree programs.	Source of the content: A marketplace in which subject experts create and teach courses. Topics include programming, design, languages and finance.
Cost model: Free. No enrollment or account is needed, and there are no start or end dates.	Cost model: Freemium: courses can generally be audited for free, while certificates, subscriptions and degrees are paid. Financial aid exists for certificates.	Cost model: Freemium: auditing is free with limited access, no graded assignments and no certificate. The verified track with graded assignments and a certificate is paid.	Cost model: Paid: courses can be bought one at a time with lifetime access to those courses, or accessed through a Personal Plan subscription. Business plans exist for organizations.
Credit and certification: MIT does not offer credit or certification to users of OCW.	Credit and certification: Course certificates require payment. Specializations, Professional Certificates and degrees are also offered.	Credit and certification: Verified certificates are issued on the paid track. MicroBachelors may provide transferable undergraduate credit.
Reuse and licensing: Materials are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence, which allows modifying, remixing and reuse with citation of MIT OpenCourseWare.		Reuse and licensing: The edX platform software was open sourced in 2013 as Open edX, with the source code on GitHub.
Offline and self-paced use: Materials can be browsed or downloaded. A YouTube channel, mirror sites and OCW To Go provide offline mobile access to selected courses.	Offline and self-paced use: Lectures can be watched on a weekly schedule or whenever suits the learner.	Offline and self-paced use: Auditors lose access to course materials after the course ends.

MIT OpenCourseWare compared with Coursera, edX and Udemy

MIT OpenCourseWare

Coursera

edX

Udemy

Source of the content: Materials come from MIT courses, and the site says it covers the entire MIT curriculum with more than 2,500 courses.

Source of the content: Courses are MOOCs from partner universities worldwide, with pre-recorded lectures, forums, assignments and quizzes or exams.

Source of the content: edX was founded by MIT and Harvard and works with university and industry partners. It offers courses, professional certificates, executive education, MicroBachelors, MicroMasters and degree programs.

Source of the content: A marketplace in which subject experts create and teach courses. Topics include programming, design, languages and finance.

Cost model: Free. No enrollment or account is needed, and there are no start or end dates.

Cost model: Freemium: courses can generally be audited for free, while certificates, subscriptions and degrees are paid. Financial aid exists for certificates.

Cost model: Freemium: auditing is free with limited access, no graded assignments and no certificate. The verified track with graded assignments and a certificate is paid.

Cost model: Paid: courses can be bought one at a time with lifetime access to those courses, or accessed through a Personal Plan subscription. Business plans exist for organizations.

Credit and certification: MIT does not offer credit or certification to users of OCW.

Credit and certification: Course certificates require payment. Specializations, Professional Certificates and degrees are also offered.

Credit and certification: Verified certificates are issued on the paid track. MicroBachelors may provide transferable undergraduate credit.

Reuse and licensing: Materials are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence, which allows modifying, remixing and reuse with citation of MIT OpenCourseWare.

Reuse and licensing: The edX platform software was open sourced in 2013 as Open edX, with the source code on GitHub.

Offline and self-paced use: Materials can be browsed or downloaded. A YouTube channel, mirror sites and OCW To Go provide offline mobile access to selected courses.

Offline and self-paced use: Lectures can be watched on a weekly schedule or whenever suits the learner.

Offline and self-paced use: Auditors lose access to course materials after the course ends.