Question- State the background behind the beginning of MOOCs.

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Initially the online courses were very basic. Courses that were previously sent by the postal system were simply sent by email with links of documents to download or read. The videos that were filmed or short earlier ‘naessce. They simply included filming of face to face classes in their entirety by a camera placed at the back of the classroom and then made available on the internet without being reworked or edited.

A revolution began in the early 2000s when the Open Education Resources (OER) movement was born in the United States. It was in 2008, the first MOOCs came into being. The term massive open online courses was used for the first time by Georges Siemens and Dave Cormier in reference to Stephen Downs and George Siemens 'connectivism and connective knowledge. (CCK08) course. The course was given in 2008 at the University of Manitoba, in Canada and taken by 25 students who attended in-class courses as well as 2,300 internet users.

It was in the year 2011 that MOOCs started to make a name for themselves in the media. The first course title 'Introduction to Artificial Intelligence' had over 160,000 enrollers ready to follow the first lessons. Since then, there has been no looking back.

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