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MOOC Monitor: European Union Unveils Its Own MOOC Consortium… OpenUpEd
The US may seem like the 800-pound gorilla with MOOC providers such as EdX, Udacity and Coursera signing millions of students and bringing in big-name venture capitalists. But Europe invented the concept of higher learning – from Plato’s Ancient Greece to the medievel universities of Bologna and Paris to powerful universities in places like Germany, Prague, Spain, Denmark and Sweden.
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