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To MOOC or Not to MOOC, That Is the Question

Monday, July 22, 2013
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Dovetailing neatly with the crowd sourced learning trend discussed in last week’s post, The Wisdom of the Crowd, is the concept of massive open online courses (MOOCs). Again, this was a huge trend in 2012, but if you’re not aware of them, MOOCs are a type of online course aimed at large scale participation and open access via the Internet.

The roots of MOOCs lie in distance learning, and they initially took hold in further education. Again, the United States has seen commercial mod

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