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Friday, June 19, 2015
Largest MOOC ever credits ELL - Meris Stansbury, eCampus News
Hundreds of thousands across the world enroll in a MOOC that targets English. The humanities aren’t often known for their pull when it comes to attracting a MOOC crowd, but one online learning platform may have found a global crowd pleaser with its current English Language Learning (ELL) course that’s quickly become the largest attended MOOC on record. The biggest single run of a free online course began on FutureLearn last month, with more than 400,000 learners enrolled from over 150 counties.
http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/largest-mooc-english-278/