MOOCとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: mo͞ok, IPA: /muːk/
• 韻: -uːk

名詞

MOOC (plural MOOCs)

1. Acronym of massive open online course; a course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.

   Hyponyms: cMOOC, xMOOC

   • 2011 August 4, Audrey Watters, “Are MOOCs the Future of Online Learning?”, in KQED.org, retrieved 17 January 2013:

     In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.

   • 2012 March 4, Tamar Lewin, “Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2020-10-10, retrieved 17 January 2013:

     Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed).

   • 2013 January 16, Anita Singh, Howard Adelman, “How open courses are changing the modern university”, in University Affairs, Canada, retrieved 17 January 2013:

     With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education.

   • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 2020-07-17:

     Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it. […] Led by the Open University, which pioneered distance-learning in the 1970s, FutureLearn, a consortium of 21 British, one Irish and one Australian university, plus other educational bodies, will start offering MOOCs later this year.

参考

• distance learning

アナグラム

• COMO, Como, MoCo, coom, moco