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• 1 2020-03-27T16:24:32+00:00 MOOC 7 definitional note plain 2020-05-02T14:00:28+00:00 The term MOOC stands for 'massive, open, online, courses' and has been attributed to Dave Cormier (Cormier, 2008). Common variations of this term include xMOOC, cMOOC, and other derivatives such as SOOC (Dalton et al., 2015) or LOOM (Caines, 2016). 
  
  
  
  The history of the concept is best described in this CC licensed image from Yuan and Powell (2015).
  
  
  References
  Caines, A. (2016, June 19). LOOM’in Large (or perhaps small) at T3 and NMC16. Retrieved May 2, 2020, from http://autumm.edtech.fm/2016/06/19/loom/ 
  
  Cormier, D. (2008, Oct. 2). The CCK08 MOOC: Connectivism course, 1/4 way. [Weblog]. http://davecormier.com/edblog/2008/10/02/the-cck08-mooc-connectivism-course-14-way/ 
  
  Dalton, B., Perez, L., & Grant, K.(2015). SOOC Course overview. Retrieved May 2, 2020, from https://learningresouces.wixsite.com/sooc-udl 
  
  Plourde, M. (2013). MOOC: Every letter is negotiable. [image]. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8620174342/sizes/o/in/photostream/ 
  
  Yuan, L., & Powell, S. (2015). Partnership Model for Entrepreneurial Innovation in Open Online Learning. ELearning Papers, 41, 1–9. Retrieved from https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619528/1/Innovation_entrepreneurship_and_education_In-Depth_41_3.pdf