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The American Council on Education (ACE) has announced that five of Coursera’s massive open online courses (MOOCs) are close enough in quality to regular campus-based classes to offer students credit for their completion. To date, these are the first MOOCs to be deemed eligible for credit. Two of the five approved MOOCs – Introduction to Genetics and Evolution and Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach – are offered through Coursera by Duke University, The Chronicle of Higher Education states. Another class – Calculus: Single-Variable, comes from the University of Pennsylvania, while the remaining two courses – Pre-calculus and Algebra – are offered by the University of California at Irvine. Read more here: