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Education World: Connecting educators to what works. MOOCs are Changing the Way the World is Educated - Webologist. In the last few years I have seen, and participated in, some excellent online courses that are run by some of the world’s top universities.
My introduction to free online education was when FutureLearn sent me an email to introduce some of their first courses. Today I heard about Coursera, another provider of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), in a BBC article. MOOCs are becoming the hot new thing. They are, as the name suggests, open to everybody, free to access and use and all materials and teaching is provided online. Anant Agarwal, a computer architecture researcher at MIT, started his discussion about Moocs with: “I would like the re-imagine education”.