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The massive online open course is a response to the challenges faced by organizations and distributed disciplines at a time of information overload.

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It used to be that when you wanted to know about something, you could do a few things.

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You could ask someone, you could buy a book, you could try to figure it out yourself, or you could go to school.

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course, the thing you're trying to figure out, you could go there and take it!

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You could get access to information about a topic.

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An instructor at ... and books to pull the information together from a library.

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You might even find others are also interested in the same things that you are.

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The MOOC, is built for a world where information is everywhere.

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Where social network obsessed with the same way as you are is a click away.

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A digital world.

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A world where an internet connection gives you access to a staggering amount of information.

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This video will introduce you to how a massive open online course is one way of learning in a network world.

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A MOOC is a course, it's open, it's participatory, it's distributed, and it supports lifelong network learning.

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In one sense, a massive online course is just that.

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It's a course.

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It has facilitators, course materials, it has a start and ending, it has participants.

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But a MOOC is not a school, it's not just an online course.

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It's a way to connect and collaborate while developing digital skills, it's a way of engaging in the learning process that engages what it means to be a student.

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It is, maybe most importantly; an event around which people who care about a topic, who can get together and work and talk about it in a structued way.

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The course is open.

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All of the work gets done in areas accessible for people to read, reflect and comment on.