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About MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available to anyone. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career, and deliver quality educational experiences at scale.
Millions of people around the world use MOOCs to learn for a variety of reasons including: career development, career change, college preparation, further learning, lifelong learning, eLearning and corporate training, etc. .
MOOCs have radically changed the way the world learns. Ready to start?
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A brief history of MOOCs in North America
The term MOOC was coined to refer to a course developed by Stephen Downes and George Siemens called Connectivism and Connectivity Knowledge in 2008. Their intention was to exploit the possibility of interactions between a wide variety of participants made possible by online tools. online to provide a richer learning environment than traditional tools would allow. 25 students took the course on campus at the University of Manitoba, and another 2,300 from around the world participated online. MOOCs emphasizing interactions and connectivity are now called cMOOCS.
In fall 2011, Stanford offered three free online courses. Peter Norvig and Sébastien Thrun gave their introduction to artificial intelligence to a first class of more than 160,000 students from all over the world. Over 20,000 students have completed the course. These xMOOCs focused less on student interaction and more on exploiting opportunities to reach large audiences.
Thrun founded a company called Udacity in February 2012 which began developing and offering MOOCs for free. In April 2012, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, two fellow Stanford CS professors, started a company called Coursera that partnered with universities to prepare and deliver MOOCs.
MIT developed the MITx platform to offer MOOCs, which was renamed edX upon forming a partnership with Harvard. The nonprofit consortium edX that develops and delivers MOOCs now has more than 30 university partners, including McGill. The consortium has made available an open source version of the platform which can be used and developed by other institutions and individuals. The consortium also conducts research on learning using new technologies by analyzing the data it obtains from students in the courses. Indeed, the consortium is an outgrowth of an earlier MIT project engaged in such research.
Over 4 million students have enrolled in Coursera MOOCs; Both Udacity and edX have enrolled over a million students in their MOOCs. Udacity partnered with San Jose State to offer credit courses that weren't free but were very inexpensive and combined MOOC materials with support from on-campus professors and teaching assistants. Such success prompted Sebastian Thrun to suggest that in 50 years there might be only 10 institutions offering higher education.
However, the San Jose State experiment has been less than successful, with pass rates in some courses significantly lower in co-ed courses than in the traditional model. Additionally, there is a high dropout rate of over 90% in most MOOCs.