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Simon Nelson tells Times Higher Education podcast original claims were ‘overhyped and unrealistic...

 

 

Simon Nelson, chief executive of the Open University-owned company, said that the early Mooc platforms – such as the US-based Coursera, Udacity and EdX – had overstated the case for what Moocs could be. He also revealed that he is “not a huge fan of the word Mooc”.