MOOC

English Pronunciation mo͞ok, en /muːk/ en uːk 1 Noun en 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. en cMOOC xMOOC en 2011-08-04 Audrey Watters Are MOOCs the Future of Online Learning? https://web.archive.org/web/20130511095247/http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/08/are-moocs-the-future-of-online-learning/ KQED.org 17 Jan 2013 In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom. en 2012-03-04 Tamar Lewin Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/education/moocs-large-courses-open-to-all-topple-campus-walls.html?_r=0 w:The New York Times 17 Jan 2013 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). https://web.archive.org/web/20201010193141/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/education/moocs-large-courses-open-to-all-topple-campus-walls.html?_r=0 en 2013-01-16 Anita Singh; Howard Adelman How open courses are changing the modern university https://web.archive.org/web/20130122000500/http://www.universityaffairs.ca/how-open-courses-are-changing-the-modern-university.aspx University Affairs 17 Jan 2013 Canada With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education. en 2013-07-20 408 8845 w:The Economist https://www.economist.com/business/2013/07/20/the-attack-of-the-moocs The attack of the MOOCs 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. https://archive.ph/WOyoJ 2021-04-04 en 2022 Jon M. Garon Parenting for the Digital Generation 61 For college-level open learning, there are a number of platforms that provide massive online open courses (MOOCs) designed to harness the capacity of universities and individual instructors to offer distance education free or at low cost to anyone interested in a subject who did not need the academic credential of a university. Translations Massive Open Online Course Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 慕課 mùkè Finnish: fi MOOC, fi massiivinen avoin verkkokurssi French: fr CLOM Italian: it MOOC m See also en distance learning Anagrams en cmoo COMO Como MoCo coom moco en Education