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If anyone else is wondering, MOOC is Massive Open Online Courses. It really gets on my nerves when people don't expand their acronyms when introducing a topic.
by LouisSayers 10y ago
If anyone else is wondering, MOOC is Massive Open Online Courses.
It really gets on my nerves when people don't expand their acronyms when introducing a topic. Of course there are exceptions, but is MOOC really that common an acronym?! I just find it a bit inconsiderate.</rant>
- keyle 10y agoThanks, I got grizzly too.
- syngrog66 10y agojust googled MOOC and the top 3 results all explained it
- danso 10y agoIt's a pretty common acronym for those of us in education, of course. But it is also known among the startup/hacker crowd because of the well-funded startups in the space. Also, it's beginning to be big in public policy. A couple of years ago, the California state senate was debating a bill to allow students to use MOOC courses for actual state college credit. That bill has since been shelved: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/01/controversial-california-bill-outsource-student-learning-dead-until-2014-or-later https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/01/controversial... In defense of the submitter, expanding the acronym may have pushed the title over the character limit.
- hueving 10y agoThis post is venting about the state of that industry. If you don't know what MOOC stands for, it probably won't matter to you much anyway. It's sort of like expecting a post about a web framework to explain HTTP.