Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’ — from bbc.co.uk by Sean Coughlan
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Harvard…is moving on to Spocs – which stands for small private online courses.
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At Harvard, more people have signed up for Moocs in a single year than have attended the university in its entire 377-year history. That’s a great success story in opening up education, but what do you do with all those hungry minds?
Enter the Spoc. And the clue is in the “small, private” part of the name. These courses are still free and delivered through the internet, but access is restricted to much smaller numbers, tens or hundreds, rather than tens of thousands.