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Massive online open courses see exponential growth during COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Massive open online classes, or MOOCs, have seen a surge in enrollments since March.

Enrollment at Coursera – an online platform that offers MOOCs, has skyrocketed and was 640% higher from mid-March to mid-April than during the same period last year, growing...

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