MOOC - an acronym for the future in teaching?

I just came across a blog post about a free statistics course (more about it later) and MOOC, which, of course, I had no idea of what it was.

Well, if you go to:

http://wp.wpi.edu/atc-ttl/2012/09/20/the-mooc-and-you/

You´ll find out MOOC stands for "Massively Open Online Courses". They are a relatively new idea, and the blog author narrows MOOCs to those that "that allow registration to anyone (for free or for a small price) and also allow some degree of two way communication". Traditional Online courses are not necessarily MOOCs, as MOOCs require and promote an incredible amount of interaction among participants, and information is not concentrated, or stored, in a single place.

The next video explains the concept pretty well and is fun to watch.

If we go back to the beginning of this post and recall the online stat course I was talking about, the link is: https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/statistics-110-probability/id502492375

And the course (Statistics 110: Probability ) is free and available at Itunes. It is a Harvard University course taught by Prof. Joe Blitzstein.