Since 2011, when Stanford University launched its first “massive open online courses”, these free, internet-enabled programmes have cropped up everywhere, engaging millions of users. The largest Mooc providers ‑– Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, and EdX – offer free tuition, supplied by universities, often to hundreds of thousands of students at a time. But just a year after Moocs really started taking off, offering the promise of real disruption to the centuries-old higher-education business, user growth has started to slow.
自2011年史丹佛大學(Stanford University)首次推出「大規模開放在線課程」(Mooc)以來，這種依託網路的課程已遍地開花，吸引了數百萬用戶。Mooc的最大供應商Coursera、Udemy、Udacity和EdX均免費提供來自高校的課程。這些在線課程經常能吸引幾十萬名學生一起學習。但在Mocc真正開始興起僅一年後，用戶增速便開始放慢。這種課程原本有望真正瓦解已有數百年曆史的高等教育行業。
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