Get to know a new education acronym: MOOC, or massive open online course. The New York Times breaks news that a dozen additional research universities are joining an online project offering free classes this fall.
“This is the tsunami,” said Richard A. DeMillo, the director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Tech. “It’s all so new that everyone’s feeling their way around, but the potential upside for this experiment is so big that it’s hard for me to imagine any large research university that wouldn’t want to be involved.”
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