mooc
/muːk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Acronym of massive open online course; a course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.
Example Sentences
- "In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom."
- "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)."
- "With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education."
- "Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it. […] Led by the Open University, which pioneered distance-learning in the 1970s, FutureLearn, a consortium of 21 British, one Irish and one Australian university, plus other educational bodies, will start offering MOOCs later this year."