Dating of "MOOC"

[Ben Zimmer]

See the for the Summer 2013 installment of "Among the New Words"
(http://bit.ly/ATNW88-2) for cites back to July 15, 2008.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Hugo wrote:
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> "MOOC" (ODO early 21st century)
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> Wikipedia's MOOC article says:
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> The term MOOC was coined in 2008 during a course called "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge". This course consisted of 25 tuition-paying students in Extended Education at the University of Manitoba… The term was coined by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island, and Senior Research Fellow Bryan Alexander of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education in response to the course designed and led by George Siemens of Athabasca University and Stephen Downes of the National Research Council (Canada).
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> Here's some documentation. There'll no doubt be some slightly earlier.
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> Usenet, 15 October 2008:
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> [Begin]
> In this edition of Places to Go, Stephen Downes describes Connectivism & Connective Knowledge, an online course being offered through the University of Manitoba by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. Designed in accordance with the principles of connectivism, the course, which has been dubbed a massive online open course (MOOC) for its diffusive, networked structure and its free and open enrollment, relies on a web of technologies to connect participants and illustrate its content. Connectivism & Connective Knowledge is not simply the use of networks of diverse technologies; it is a network of diverse technologies. [End]
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/online-learning-update/_jFKsyCLOJI
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> It includes this link, archived by Wayback Machine on 12 October 2008:
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> [Begin]
> Connective Knowledge, an online course being offered through the University of Manitoba by Stephen Downes and George Siemens. Designed in accordance with the principles of connectivism, the course, which has been dubbed a massive online open course (MOOC) for its diffusive, networked structure and its free and open enrollment, relies on a web of technologies to connect participants and illustrate its content. Connectivism & Connective Knowledge is not simply the use of networks of diverse technologies; it is a network of diverse technologies.
> [End]
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> http://wayback.archive.org/web/20081012183649/http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=668&action=login
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> In this video Cornier says of MOOC: "the first one that was actually called that was in 2008 and I coined the term and discussion the summer before it started".
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAVwQ7RJWqg&t=1m43s

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