I was asked this week: “what’s a MOOC?” by someone who probably should have known by now what a MOOC is. As a professional, I refrained from this behaviour:
If you’re after a description, a look at this video (under 5 mins) gives an overview – albeit from 2010.
And more in-depth reading available from a post on the JISC site by Jeff Haywood from the University of Edinburgh on their decision to partner with Coursera
