By Claire Cardona, Dallas News
The University of Texas at Austin is rolling out nine online not-for-credit courses in the 2013-14 school year to test out the new MOOC program. Despite the funny acronym, MOOCs, or massive open online courses, are a growing trend in higher education and have the potential to provide students with online accessibility to courses that might fill up quickly. The courses are also available to non-students regardless of location, and they’re free. “We love the idea that people who have never been to college will get to see what a college course looks like,” said Steven Mintz, executive director of the UT System’s Institute for Transformational Learning. “Hopefully, it will persuade them to pursue higher education.”
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