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Stephen Downes

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So it has been more than a decade, of course, but by this point this has become a minor historical quibble. What's really important is this number: "MOOCs have reached 220 million learners." As Daniel Christian says, "I don't know the total number of graduates from the Ivy League — throughout all of the relevant institutions' histories — but I would bet you that MOOCs have reached far more learners. And MOOCs did so in less than a decade." Now of course that would be to compare courses and programs - but no matter. It is arguable that by the time they become tradition-encrusted relics of the past, MOOCs will have done far more than the ivies ever did.

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