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What are MOOCs?

4 March 2014

UCU briefing on MOOCs - massive open online courses, the free, open access and scalable online higher education courses.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are free, open access and scalable online education courses. This briefing identifies the key players in the field, including the new UK MOOC platform FutureLearn.

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