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What is a MOOC?

What is a MOOC? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A massive open online course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.
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The John F. Kennedy University in California, which educates mainly mature students, has started to accept edX MOOC credits towards its degrees. But most universities still do not.
The catch is getting European universities to accept MOOC credits, in order to trade them.
There is more to creating and administering a MOOC than plonking a camera in a studio and uploading the footage to the internet.
Werbach, a legal studies and business ethics professor, is teaching a MOOC this summer.
At some point, colleges are expected to use the evolving and dynamic MOOC market to make money.
In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.

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