EDUCAUSE defines massively open online courses (MOOCs) as a model for delivering learning content online to virtually any person—with no limit on attendance—who wants to take the course. MOOCs are offered on a wide range of subjects, including physics, journalism, and zombies. Wait…zombies…? Yes, that’s NOT a typo!
Category: MOOCs
So, what, exactly, is a “MOOC”?
In 2012 and 2013, so far, there has been a lot of talk about massively open online courses, which are commonly known as “MOOCs”. Almost every session that we attended at the 2013 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting mentioned MOOCs, and the 2013 Horizon Report predicts that MOOCs will see widespread adoption in higher…