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MOOC in case you were wondering like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
by Gys 6y ago
MOOC in case you were wondering like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
- elaus 6y agoI wish articles would at least explain acronyms the first time they're mentioned. Just putting the full form in parenthesis would go a long way and not disturb readers that already know them. Maybe it's because I'm not a native speaker, but I have never heard of MOOCs before – and I'm consuming a lot of content in English on a daily basis (e.g. on HN).
- uberswe 6y agoI'm a native speaker and I had never heard of it before either. From reading the title I thought this was about creating content and teaching others programming since MOC sometimes stands for My Own Creation.
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- MauranKilom 6y agoPlea for future article writers: It won't kill you to hyperlink the first occurrence of acronyms (especially titular ones) in the block text. Those ten seconds will not only save hundreds of readers time (even if they only mouse over the link to see the expansion in the Wikipedia page title). It will also prevent readers opening your article, seeing the same unexplained acronym mentioned every second sentence and deciding that a google search with an unknown amount of "figuring out which of all the results matches the article context" is not worth their time.
- EL_Loco 6y agoJIT in case you were wondering like me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_learning
- felixr 6y agoThanks. I understood JIT == just-in-time because the acronym is used for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation But I did not realise it was actually an established acronym for learning, too.