2011 Aug. 4, Audrey Watters, "Are MOOCs the Future of Online Learning?," KQED.org (retrieved 17 Jan 2013)In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.
2012 March 4, Tamar Lewin, "Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls," New York Times (retrieved 17 Jan 2013)Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed).
2013 Jan. 16, Anita Singh and Howard Adelman, "How open courses are changing the modern university," University Affairs (Canada) (retrieved 17 Jan 2013)With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education.
