Boosted by the Pandemic, MOOCs Are Here to Stay. How Can We Improve Them?

When Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander came up with the term MOOC in 2008, they were looking to describe a course at the University of Manitoba in which 2300 students enrolled through the internet. They didn’t imagine it would become an entire industry. And they couldn’t foresee the growth MOOCs would experience in 2020 thanks to a pandemic.

According to ClassCentral, one of every three people who have ever attended a MOOC did so during 2020. The impressive number of new users for Coursera, which grew from 8 million in 2019 to 31 million in 2020, is the most evident proof of this explosion.

Despite this growth, there’s still room for improvement. Online learning experts have spent a good deal of their time in recent months sharing best practices for remote teaching.

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