Meaning of MOOC | Babel Free

Definitions

Acronym of massive open online course; a course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.

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“In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.”

“Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed).”

“With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education.”

“Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it. […] Led by the Open University, which pioneered distance-learning in the 1970s, FutureLearn, a consortium of 21 British, one Irish and one Australian university, plus other educational bodies, will start offering MOOCs later this year.”

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