140 Massive Open Online Courses Getting Started in June: Enroll in a MOOC Today

Have some down­time this sum­mer? Would your time be well spent tak­ing a Mas­sive Open Online Course (MOOC)? Then you’ll want to look through the slew of sum­mer MOOCs get­ting start­ed this June. We’ve gath­ered some 140 cours­es launch­ing this month — cours­es offered by major uni­ver­si­ties from the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, Europe, the Mid­dle East, and Asia. Vis­it our com­pre­hen­sive list of MOOCs here and find a course that speaks to you. Some of the ones that piqued our inter­est include:

• Intro­duc­tion to Biol­o­gy – The Secret of Life  – MIT on edX – June 17 (12 weeks)
• Fan­ta­sy and Sci­ence Fic­tion: The Human Mind, Our Mod­ern World  – U Michi­gan on Cours­era – June 2 (11 weeks)
• The Art of Draw­ing and Paint­ing – Abu Dhabi Uni­ver­si­ty on Open2study  — June 2 (4 weeks)
• Right vs. Might in Inter­na­tion­al Rela­tions – Uni­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow on Future­learn – June 23 (6 weeks)
• Think­ing Like a Writer — Michi­gan State on Can­vas — June 23 (8 weeks)
• Mega Events: Inside the FIFA World Cup — Michi­gan State on Can­vas — June 23 (5 weeks)
• The DO School Start-Up Lab  — The DO School on iver­si­ty — June 28

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