TOOC vs. MOOC - Introduction to Learning Technologies

The prevailing model for most MOOCs these days involves the course being housed in a closed platform such as that used by Coursera. Participants must register to view the course content and materials cannot be used outside of that course. Participants usually only communicate with others in the course and sometimes not even then, and yet the first “O” in MOOC stands for “open”, something most are not. The open course from the GMCTE is what we consider to be a truly open online course or TOOC. http://words.usask.ca/learning-tech/tooc-vs-mooc/