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This chapter summarizes and speculates on the future of massive open online courses, which are courses offered by educational institutions to anyone with a computer and Internet connection. The pedagogy, technology, and policies surrounding interactive courseware offered to the world illustrate and drive convergence and divergence processes of knowledge, technology, and society.
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Fisher, D.H. (2016). Online Courses. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_60
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