MOOC
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of MOOC
First recorded in 2005–10
Example Sentences
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The professors would like to push the course materials online — teaching it as a MOOC, for example, a freely available course taught over the web.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2017
Mike Feerick leads a company that has been credited as being the first ever massive open online course or MOOC.
From Forbes • Jul. 21, 2015
“This game isn’t telling you why you got a problem right or wrong or asking you to think about what arithmetic is,” Osterweil said in a video in their new MOOC.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2015
They are instruments in what George Siemens, who co-taught the first MOOC, in Canada in 2008, calls “the shadow learning economy,” which happens alongside formal education, much in the way textbooks supplement courses.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2014
Once you have learned that in English the article comes before the noun, you don’t have to relearn that order every time you acquire a new noun, such as hashtag, app, or MOOC.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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