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■ The Treasure Hunt Club No. 85
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August 2012 Treasure Hunt
MOOCs
Marcel Van Amelsvoort
神奈川県立国際言語文化アカデミア
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Language and
Culture Studies

MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses are getting
really big. And by big I mean both popular and
famous. They are courses offered for free from
famous universities such as Stanford University,
Duke University, and the University of Edinburgh.
For people in Japan with an interest in studying
at the university level in English MOOCs represent
an exciting opportunity. In the past, university
courses have been available via iTunesU or YouTube,
or some combination of the two, but these new
MOOCs are a much more course-like experience. From
a dedicated website, you enroll, watch videos,
take tests, post comments on discussion boards,
and exchange assignments. There is even a
completion certificate available if you complete
everything successfully. There are several sites
through which you can now access these courses and
for the time being, they are completely free. As I
said, they are also popular, and enrollments of 60
or 70 thousand students are common in a single
course!

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