MOOCs are Massive Open Online Courses. While MOOCs are a great way for delivering education to a large group across the world, they will probably not become the main source of delivering education in grand scheme of things. This is a great experiment for today's college students and 20 something year-olds because of how connected this demographic is to technology. College students are able to connect to their online courses with their smartphones. MOOCs are really reinnovating the typical, lecture styled classroom.
I think MOOCs can be very effective if structured carefully. I believe in the face-to-face lectures and classrooms because it helps me stay on task as opposed to procrastinating. I know there are some online courses that require you to be on the computer at the time of that course, but I still think it hinders the teacher-student professional relationship.
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