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Reflections on Stanford's MOOCs
Cooper, Steve and Sahami, Mehran

PublishedFebruary 2013
JournalCommunications of the ACM
Volume 56, Issue 2, Pages 28-30
PublisherACM
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
The recent wave of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has highlighted the potential for making educational offerings accessible at a global level. The attention MOOCs have received is well deserved, but it belies the fact that various forms of online education have existed for many years. Rather than attempting to catalogue the broad spectrum of online learning resources, we focus on a sampling of initiatives in online education-with an emphasis on our home institution, Stanford University, with which we are most familiar-highlighting some of the opportunities and challenges at hand.

Keywords higher education · MOOC

Published atNew York
ISSN0001-0782
RefereedYes
RightsCopyright © 2018 by the ACM. All rights reserved.
DOI10.1145/2408776.2408787
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2408776.2408787
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