Moodle vs Mooc - What's the difference?
moodle | mooc |
To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.
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, "
* 2012 March 4, Tamar Lewin, "
* 2013 Jan. 16, Anita Singh and Howard Adelman, "
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)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
*mooc
English
(wikipedia MOOC)Noun
(en noun)Are '''MOOCsthe 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.
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).
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.