By Tom Groenfeldt, Contributor About 13,000 students from around the world will start taking an online statistics course at Wesleyan University in Connecticut next week using SAS On-Demand and the R language. The course falls into the category of Massive Open Online Courses,(MOOC) and it is using the Coursera platform for the six week course. …read more
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MOOCs: A College Education Online?
By David Skorton and Glenn Altschuler, Contributor Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses. Depending on whom you ask, they point the way to the future of higher education, the end of higher education as we know it, both, or neither.
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