By Tanya Roscorla, Converge
Massively Open Online Courses have slowly garnered attention. Called MOOCs, these courses are offered to anyone at no charge. Since they began on college campuses in 2008, large numbers of people have been taking these courses. When 12 more top universities announced on Tuesday, July 17, that they will offer some of these online courses, the higher education community woke up to the reality that MOOCs will be a part of education’s future. “[Tuesday’s] announcement is a pretty loud call to action for other universities,” said Jonathan Becker, assistant professor of educational leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University. “What it mostly does is it legitimizes these kinds of courses.”
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