Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms have burst into the lives of millions of people. The concept was born in 2008 by Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander inspirated by the course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge" designed by George Siemens. But the true impact came in the fall of 2011 with the "Artificial Intelligence" course offered by Stanford University. Since then millions of people have received courses in any of the platforms that have emerged (coursera, udacity, edX,...). Now, the burning questions that people ask are: What is the pedagogical value of this course? Are we simply dealing with a fad like already happened with Open Course Ware (OCW)? There are already a lot of responses and formed opinions, but I will give you my own. I don't see MOOCs like a fad. I see that more like a normal, necessary and inevitable step to the new learning model. In my opinion, the really interesting thing of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course ) is ...
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