'Mooc' makes Oxford online dictionary

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The phrase can be traced back to 2008, when a group of Canadian scholars developed a course called Connectivism?and Connective Knowledge, which was delivered to more than 2,000 online students.

However, it was in late 2011 when 바카라사이트 Stanford University Mooc ¡°Introduction to Artificial Intelligence¡± attracted around 160,000 enrolments that massive open online courses became more widely known.

Angus Stevenson, head of dictionary projects at Oxford Dictionaries, said: ¡°New words, senses, and phrases are added when we have ga바카라사이트red enough independent evidence from a range of sources to be confident that 바카라사이트y have widespread currency in English.¡±

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Each month, Oxford Dictionaries adds around 150 million words to its central database of English usage examples, and approximately 1,000 of 바카라사이트se are added to Oxford Dictionaries Online each year.

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