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Moodle vs Mooc - What's the difference?

moodle | mooc |

As a verb moodle

is to dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.

As a noun MOOC is

a Massive Open Online Course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.

moodle

English

Verb

(moodl)
  • To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.
  • Quotations

    * (1921) "That old one who saw you out of your shell has gone off to moodle about doing nothing." Back to Methuselah v. 223 * (1928) "Napoleon often moodled about for a week at a time doing nothing but play with his children or read trash or waste his time helplessly." Intelligent Woman’s Guide Socialism lxix. 328 * (1938) "So you see, imagination needs moodling, -long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering." If you want to write - Brenda Ueland [http://www.womenfolk.com/creativity/moodling.htm

    Anagrams

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    mooc

    English

    (wikipedia MOOC)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A M'assive]] '''O'''pen '''O'''nline [[course, ' C ourse designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.
  • * 2011' Aug. 4, Audrey Watters, " Are '''MOOCs the Future of Online Learning?," ''KQED.org (retrieved 17 Jan 2013):
  • In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.
  • * 2012 March 4, Tamar Lewin, " Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls," New York Times (retrieved 17 Jan 2013):
  • Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed).
  • * 2013 Jan. 16, Anita Singh and Howard Adelman, " How open courses are changing the modern university," University Affairs (Canada) (retrieved 17 Jan 2013):
  • With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education.

    See also

    * distance learning